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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

Play trailer Poster for Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted PG Released Jun 8, 2012 1h 25m Kids & Family Comedy Adventure Animation Play Trailer Watchlist
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Animal pals Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer) and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand) picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.
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Dazzlingly colorful and frenetic, Madagascar 3 is silly enough for young kids, but boasts enough surprising smarts to engage parents along the way.

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Sophie Monks Kaufman Little White Lies A sugar high that inevitably fades with time. Rated: 2/5 Oct 24, 2012 Full Review London Evening Standard This is animation that never just goes through the motions but glories in its feats and so, almost certainly, will you. Rated: 3/5 Oct 19, 2012 Full Review Peter Bradshaw Guardian Here is a family movie from which absolutely nothing is expected, and yet it's one of the week's best releases: a muscular, potent and very funny film. Rated: 4/5 Oct 18, 2012 Full Review Jack Fleischer Battleship Pretension Madagascar 3 isn't an emotional ride the way Pixar's films tend towards, but it's relentlessly goofy fun. Good for some laughs, I say take a small person and see what happens. Mar 24, 2021 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com May very well become America's most wanted film this first weekend in June. Rated: 3.0/4.0 Sep 15, 2020 Full Review Allen Almachar The MacGuffin I will not call watching the movie a bad experience. But to be honest with you, that's not saying much. Rated: C+ Jul 31, 2020 Full Review Read all reviews

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Chris My granddaughter liked the movie. She just turned 8. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 06/02/21 Full Review Blu B A Classic of the franchise. It's VERY close between this and the first one for best one. It's so hard to pick. The first probably has the best humor of all of them but this is just as funny as the last one. It also fully commits to the stupidity and over the top feel of the franchise. This one is more of a comedy adventure. This one probably has the best animation of the three also and it's really good. The chase scene Monte Carlo and the neon show look really good and are very creative and ridiculous. The voice acting is really good here too. It's quite an All star cast. The villian is really good, over the top, and just pure evil basically. Everything else is solid. It does bounce around a bit with the unneeded romantic subplots and it has trouble tying in the villian hunting them down which can feel like a seperate story. But it's fun, probably the most creative of the three, the most well executed from a technical perspective, and a very satisfying ending. Not much in the way of individual character development like the last one tried outside of Alex once again and the dumb romance subplot. But it does keep the gang together better in this (not as well as the first though) and gives the group an arc overall. No deep message here just dumb over the top fun and it succeeds even better than the last one did. Anyone who is a fan of the franchise, any voice actors in this, the director, or family comedy animated movies should check this out. Great way to close out an overall solid trilogy. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 09/05/25 Full Review Alex L Wreck it Ralph is Way better than this piece of Crap Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 09/02/25 Full Review Jackie B. My immediate and without hesitation answer to “What is your favorite movie?” Always and forever. The best piece of cinema ever made. I watch it any time I am desperate for some gosh darn joy in my life. Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/21/25 Full Review Samir R. Nice and funny movie ! Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/01/25 Full Review Michael W This third Madagascar movie was great. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Bryan Cranston, Jessica Chastain, Sacha Baron Cohen, Frances McDormand, Martin Short, Cedric the Entertainer, and the rest of the cast did a great job on this movie. The story of the movie was entertaining and humorous. It's about realizing what you really want to do and have fun. If you haven't seen this movie yet, check it out sometime. It's a great movie for an entire family. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 06/18/25 Full Review Read all reviews
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Synopsis Animal pals Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer) and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois (Frances McDormand) picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.
Director
Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
Producer
Mireille Soria, Mark Swift
Screenwriter
Eric Darnell, Noah Baumbach
Distributor
Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG
Production Co
DreamWorks, PDI
Rating
PG (Some Mild Action|Rude Humor)
Genre
Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jun 8, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming)
Nov 25, 2015
Runtime
1h 25m
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