You can't beat lemur royalty

Rating: 10/10 (26 September 2012)

I've been a huge fan of the Penguins of Madagascar series since the first episode and they led me to watch the original Madagascar films.
As usual, the animation is perfect, the effects are incredible, but once again, it's the penguins and King Julien who really steal the show.
The first scene that had me laughing out loud was the stealthy approach made by the Lion, the Hippo, the Giraffe and the Zebra into Monte Carlo Marina, closely followed by King Julien in a royal yacht with fireworks going off.
The penguins and the apes created a marvellous figure of The King of Versailles to play at the gambling tables of the casino and also to buy the circus, which all the characters used as an escape vehicle to reach New York.
Animal Control lunatic Mlle. Dubois was an amazing character, whose only interest was in getting a lion's head into her collection.
The actual circus scenes, while beautifully executed, rather left me numb: Lack of thumbs is, actually, a problem. Not in Madagascar, however, and the trapeze acts, etc were done as though all the animals concerned had prehensile hands.
Definitely worth watching.