Madagascar (2005 movie)

Madagascar is a 2005 American computer-animated movie made by Dreamworks. The story is about a group of animals from the zoo in Central Park, New York City. The main characters are Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippotamus (Jada Pinkett Smith). With the penguins Skipper (Tom McGrath), Private (Christopher Knights), Kowalski (Chris Miller) and Rico (John DiMaggio) also living in the zoo, they end up in Madagascar with King Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), Maurice (Cedric the Entertainer) and Mort (Andy Richter). The movie has two sequels: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, as well as a Christmas special, a spinoff series, and the movie of the same name.

It was released on May 27, 2005.

Plot
Alex the lion, Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippopotamus become best friends in the movie.

 Voice Cast 

 Ben Stiller as Alex, a lion.
 Chris Rock as Marty, a zebra.
 David Schwimmer as Melman, a giraffe.
 Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria, a hippopotamus.
 Sacha Baron Cohen as King Julien, a ring-tailed lemur who is the king of Madagascar.
 Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice, an aye-aye who is Julien’s royal adviser.
 Andy Richter as Mort, a mouse lemur.
 Tom McGrath as Skipper, the leader of a group of penguins.
 Chris Miller as Kowalski, one of the penguins.
 Christopher Knights as Private, one of the penguins.
 Jeffery Katzenberg as Rico, one of the penguins.
 Conrad Vernon as Mason, a chimpanzee.

Video games
A video game titled Madagascar, is an adaptation on the same name of the movie. Release in 2005 for
PlayStation 2, Xbox, Nintendo DS, GameCube, Game Boy Advance and Microsoft Windows.

Category:2005 computer-animated movies
Category:2000s family movies
Category:DreamWorks Pictures movies
Category:DreamWorks Animation movies
Category:Movies directed by Eric Darnell
Category:Movies directed by Tom McGrath
Category:Madagascar (franchise)
Category:Movies about animals
Category:Movies about penguins
Category:Movies composed by Hans Zimmer
Category:Movies set in Africa
Category:Movies set on islands
Category:Movies set in New York City
Category:Movies set in zoos
Category:PG-rated movies
Category:2000s English-language movies