This is exactly how we- humans feel and where we land up in quest of freedom !

Rating: 10/10 (1 August 2005)

Madagaskar
AN excellent depiction of what the human beings think of Freedom and Independence ! Alex, a zoo lion, enjoys his cushy life  he loves the kind of attention he enjoys from the people who come to visit the zoo, the way the human care takers take care of his needs , blow drying his hair etc. much like a film actor  enjoying the attention of one and all  without having to work much ! Gloria  the hippotamus  like any film actress  showing her swimming skills and people were shown falling all over her like pin and needles in order to take her pout-lipped pictures. There were other characters  just like we have comedians and support actors in films  zebra Marty and giraffe Melman  and all the four of them were very fast friends.
In the mean time there were the penguins who were looking for Freedom and independence  the vast lands  all belonging to them  with no one to dance and sing for - as they thought themselves to be more intelligent than anyone  and thought of escaping to free lands which belonged to them only - much like the Creative Directors  who think that they are doing and thinking absolutely right and their plans an never fail !
Marty  the zebra  who always had a mind for freedom  accidentally comes across the penguins and they tell him that what he is just thinking  they are already planning to do so  escape from the zoo  towards independence !
Marty wishes that he would love to be free as well  and tells his friends about his wish to escape the zoo and live happily ever after  Free. This comes to his friends as a rude shock and they try to counsel him out of such a nightmarish thought and told him of the hardships of living away from civilization  esp. when they have developed this habit of staying in such utter luxury !
Anyways Marty escapes and they all land up in a huge ship to be taken away to another land ! They were still optimistic  thinking some other people will surely keep them in their zoo and life will still be normal  but they land up in a forest island mostly occupied by lemurs ! In the meantime, the penguins take over the ship and reach Antarctica and realize that "The place sucks"- they try to go back to civilization and even they land up in the same island as the others. In the meantime  Alex  hungry and weary sees his prey in anyone and everyone he saw  reality is very bitter for all of them  they understand the necessity of civilization and team work  the lemurs join hands with them and make alex their protector  they all start living together as a team in the secluded Island  happily ever after !  and make a new civilization out of themselves !