Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

Closes December 10
You'd better "move it, move it"!

All of the lovable characters are back: Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo, King Julien, Maurice and the penguins. Left marooned on the distant shores of Madagascar, the New Yorkers have hatched a plan so crazy it just might work. With military precision, the penguins have repaired an old plane -- sort of. Once aloft, this unlikely crew stays airborne just enough to make it to the wildest place of all-the vast plains of Africa itself.

Visit the official Web site www.madagascar-themovie.com/ (but come back later!)

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is rated PG for some mild crude humor.

Runtime: 89 minutes (1 hour, 29 minutes)

Pssst … Be sure to visit our Madagascar hissing cockroaches in BioLab 2.

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa Classroom Activity Kit (PDF 1.2 MB). Fun stuff for kids age 5 to 7.

Mad about Madagascar!

• Madagascar’s capital is Antananarivo, commonly known as Tana.
• Madagascar is the world's fourth largest island. (After Greenland, New Guinea and Borneo.)
• Because of Madagascar’s isolation, many of its plants and animals exist nowhere else on Earth.
• Madagascar is the world's largest producer and exporter of vanilla.
• Madagascar is known as the Red Island because of the color of the earth.
• Diego Dias, a Portuguese explorer, first sighted Madagascar at the beginning of the 16th century.
  

Scenes From the Film