Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

The birthmark on Alex's paw appears and disappears between shots.

There is a shot in which the monkey is cutting through the middle frame with a grinder, then in the next shot he actually completes the task on the rear one.

In the very end of the movie, Alex glances at Marty's butt, which has a bite mark supposedly made by Alex in _Madagascar (2005)_ (qv).

However, the mark cannot be seen in any other scene that shows Marty's butt, such as the very first one when they are all shaking their butts with the music.

In a fight between the old lady an Alex on the African road, at the end, we see a shot of the bus directly behind them, but after the fight, the old lady walks quite a ways to get to the bus.

When the penguins steal the tour jeep, the tour guide has no gun yet he has one when the humans pick up the old lady after the penguins leave with the jeep.

When they ram the dam you can clearly see the old lady purse fly into the water and go down with the dam but they later give it to Makunga.

At the beginning of the film when the zoo-keeper places Alex on the newspapers on top of a stone table where Alex performs, the newspaper disappears moments later.

The birth mark on Alex's paw was never seen in _Madagascar (2005)_ (qv).

The title, "MadagascarEscape 2 Africa," might appear to be misleading since Madagascar can be considered part Africa.

However, whether Madagascar is strictly part of Africa is perhaps geographically debatable, and certainly politically debatable.

Technically, Madagascar is an island east of Africa, separate from the mainland.

Politically, there is no pan-African government, and attempts to have Madagascar integrated into the African Union have historically been abortive.

Furthermore, considering the various botched plans involved in the plot, the filmmakers undoubtedly intended the subtitle "Escape 2 Africa" to be somewhat ironic.

After Nana beats up Alex on the road, she gets back on the tour jeep and it drives away.

Alex picks up her purse, dumps it out and drops it on the ground.

Later, after the penguins hijack the jeep and drive over Nana, her fellow tourist says "Lady, I found your pocketbook," and returns it to her, when they were obviously a lot farther down the road from the initial Alex and Nana fight location.

When Alex chooses to fight Teetsi the scene changes to Makunga making a comment to the lion on his left.

Just as Makunga utters the words, "this ought to be good" the lion several rows in back and to the right of Makunga mouths the same words at the exact moment.

This reveals how the animators use computer generated forms, animate them then simply place them in a scene with different skins.

When the hunters attract young Alex to outside the reserve, the rope is very far from the fence, which means it had to be thrown from the outside to the inside of the reserve.

The rope could only be thrown from the top of the fence, but when the rope is pulled back, near the hunters, we see it being pulled from the bottom of the lower wire of the fence.

During the plane launch, Mort is seen falling off the plane as it is catapulted into the air.

However moments later when Alex looks out the window, he has appeared on the wing.

The stripes on a zebra are much like the fingerprints on a human being, so none of the zebras in Marty's herd should look alike.

(This applies to all 3 parts of the Madagascar series.

) Lions do not have opposable thumbs.

All the lions shown in the film are seen as having them.

Madagascar 2: Escape to Africa is the sequel to the critically acclaimed animated movie, Madagascar. While I also loved this as a child as well as the first and third movies, I now like it the same as I currently do for the original movie.

The movie was totally Comedy and Fun. Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are children at the beginning of the movie, that time all the children are very cute.

As many of you know I like silly movies. And boy was this it!

Until I saw Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, I would have rated Kung Fu Panda as my favourite animated film of the year. I still would rate Kung Fu Panda higher, but this runs it close!

MADAGASCAR : ESCAPE 2 Africa (2008) ** (VOICES OF: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, Jada Pinkett-Smith, David Schwimmer, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric The Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac, Alec Baldwin, Sherri Shepherd, Will i Am, Tom McGrath) Fairly decent sequel to the animated hit with the menagerie of friends winding up on the African veldt and Alex The Lion (Stiller) re-uniting with his family (Mac in sadly one of his final performances, and Shepherd). A bit looser and some much needed comic relief in the Phil Hartman-like penguin leader (McGrath) stealing the show once again.

Mad.Mad because I paid $40 for the Fam to watch this stinky movie.

Today, I went with my friend who works at a movie theatre to see this Dreamworks Animation sequel to Madagascar which he had seen twice before. I remember enjoying the first one a few years ago but I waited several weeks after when this one premiered sometime last month.

Madagascar 2, the sequel everybody wanted and received, sometimes though that's not a very good thing.This film was hilarious, some of the lines had me teary eyed but once the story got them settled in Africa the movie just kind of became a complete mesh of things that prove they ran out of ideas for the sequel.

You don't need to have seen Madagascar 1, which is just as well, because I haven't. There is a recap at the start which also adds in some essential information about Alex the Lion, which pays off much earlier in the film than expected.