Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Those madcap zoo animals are up to more (if similar) hijinks
by Andy Tybout
The setting may have changed from jungles to cities, but little else in Eric Darnell's Madagascar 3 will strike viewers as out-of-the-ordinary. Picking up shortly after the conclusion of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, the film follows Alex the lion, Marty the zebra and other returning characters as they flee from a sadistic animal-catcher through Rome, London and New York. Posing as circus performers, they join a traveling troupe, where they befriend an embittered Russian tiger and an alluring female jaguar. Complications arise, which anyone remotely familiar with kid's-movie tropes — the fall from grace, the last-minute redemption — will find painfully predictable. Nonetheless, the film is guaranteed to satisfy viewers craving a dose of bombastic, free-spirited entertainment and features the voice talents of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock and Sacha Baron Cohen, among others. In 3-D in select theaters. Starts Fri., June 9.
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