A year after DreamWorks released Madagascar, Disney released its own animated movie with a near-identical plot about runaway ...

There the New Yorkers encounter... The early years of the Madagascar heroes Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, as they grow up in a rescue habitat at the ...

However, after a botched rescue attempt by Marty's companions--Alex, the content lion; Melman, the skittish ... to end up on the sandy shores of exotic Madagascar. At last, Marty's dream will ...

In the third movie the Madagascar gang joins a circus ... and the interspecies married couple Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) are ready to go ...