Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
Madagascar3-Poster.jpg
Theatrical release poster
Directed by
Written by
Produced by
Starring
Edited by Nick Fletcher
Music by Hans Zimmer
Production
companies
Distributed by Paramount Pictures [3]
Release dates
  • May 18, 2012 (2012-05-18)(Cannes)
  • June 8, 2012 (2012-06-08)(United States)
Running time
93 minutes [4]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
Budget$145 million [5] [6]
Box office$746.9 million [7]

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted is a 2012 American animated comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and PDI/DreamWorks and distributed by Paramount Pictures. The third installment in the Madagascar franchise, it is the sequel to Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), and was the first film in the series to be released in 3D. It was directed by Eric Darnell, Conrad Vernon and Tom McGrath from a screenplay written by Darnell and Noah Baumbach. The film stars Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights, John DiMaggio and Vernon reprising their voice acting roles from the previous installments, alongside new cast members Jessica Chastain, Bryan Cranston, Martin Short and Frances McDormand. In the film, the main characters—a party of animals from the Central Park Zoo whose adventures have already taken them to Madagascar and Africa—attempt to return to New York City and find themselves traveling across Europe with a circus while being pursued by the villainous head of Monaco's animal control service.

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DreamWorks Animation announced the third film in August 2008, three months before the release of the second film. The amount of animation and visual effects were done at DreamWorks Dedicated Unit, an India-based unit at Technicolor. Like other films in the franchise, Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted features several songs from various artists, with original music score composed by Hans Zimmer, returning from its predecessors.

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted premiered out of competition at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2012, and was theatrically released in the United States on June 8. It received generally positive reviews and was the eighth highest-grossing film of 2012 and the highest-grossing film in the franchise, with a worldwide gross of over $746 million on a production budget of $145 million. [7] A spin-off, Penguins of Madagascar , was released in November 2014, following the events of Madagascar 3. A sequel, Madagascar 4, was initially planned for a May 2018 theatrical release, but was removed from the release schedule following a restructuring of DreamWorks Animation in January 2015. [8] [9]

Plot

After crash-landing in Africa, penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private and chimpanzee duo Mason and Phil leave for Monte Carlo in their modified airplane. [a] After a while of waiting, Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria and lemurs King Julien, Maurice and Mort decide to go find them so they can all return to their home at the Central Park Zoo in New York City. They find the penguins and chimpanzees at the Monte Carlo Casino. Chaos ensues when the animals' cover is blown and escape from Captain Chantel DuBois, the head of Monaco's animal control service, who is determined to add Alex's head to her taxidermy collection.

When their airplane unfortunately crash-lands and is beyond repair, the animals board a departing circus train. As the circus animals, which include New Zealand sea lion Stefano, jaguar Gia and Siberian tiger Vitaly, are suspicious of outsiders, Alex therefore lies about them being American circus animals. The circus is headed for a performance show in Rome, followed by one in London where they hope to impress a promoter in order to get their first American tour. To allay suspicion, the penguins purchase the circus from its human ringmaster with the fortune they gained in Monte Carlo. In Rome, Alex becomes enamored with Gia while Julien falls in love with performing Eurasian brown bear Sonya. DuBois attempts to pursue the couple, but fails to catch them and is falsely taken into custody.

After the performance at the Colosseum proves to be a disaster, Stefano reveals to Alex that the circus was once famous and Vitaly was its star, skillfully jumping through ever-smaller hoops. However, an accident during one of his stunts caused him to lose his passion and the entire circus suffered as a result. When the train stops at the Alps, Alex convinces the circus animals to come up with a new and exciting all-animal act that will restore their former glory. Marty and Stefano find a new passion in being shot out of a cannon, while Melman and Gloria become adept at dancing together on a tightrope. Gia persuades Alex to teach her "Trapeze Americano" and soon romance flourishes between the duo. Meanwhile, DuBois resumes her hunt after escaping from prison.

In London, Vitaly is afraid of failing again and considers ditching the show, but Alex helps him rediscover his passion and suggests he lubricate himself with hair conditioner instead of olive oil. Vitaly agrees and succeeds in jumping through the hoop. The show is a spectacular success and the promoter signs the circus to a contract. DuBois then shows up and, although the penguins foil her, a printed document detailing Alex that she was carrying exposes his group's true intentions. Feeling deceived and betrayed, the circus animals eject the quartet.

After Sonya ends her relationship with Julien, the zoo and circus animals go their separate ways but arrive in Central Park at the same time. Looking at their old home, the zoo animals realize how much their worldwide adventure has changed them and decide that their true place is with the circus. They are then ambushed by DuBois, but before she can behead Alex, the zoo staff arrive and incorrectly believe that she is returning the missing animals. Julien makes it back to the circus with the news as he reconciles with Sonya before the circus staff settles on rescuing their friends.

Alex's group awaken in their old enclosures, now surrounded by high fencing. DuBois is being honored by the zoo staff, but she rejects their offered reward money and secretly attempts to kill Alex with a poison-filled dart. They are soon saved by their circus staff and, together, the heroes defeat DuBois as Alex's group permanently join the circus, while he and Gia become a couple. As retribution for all the trouble they caused them, the penguins ship DuBois to Madagascar, reminiscent of how Alex's group was shipped. [b]

Voice cast

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Ben Stiller and Jessica Chastain at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, where the film had its worldwide premiere.

Production

DreamWorks Animation's CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg confirmed in 2008 that there would be an additional sequel to Madagascar and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa . Katzenberg stated, "There is at least one more chapter. We ultimately want to see the characters make it back to New York." [10] At the Television Critics Association press tour in January 2009, Katzenberg was asked if there would be a third film in the series. He replied, "Yes, we are making a Madagascar 3 now, and it will be out in the summer of 2012." [11] On August 9, 2010, Katzenberg revealed in an e-mail that writer-director Noah Baumbach had done sixty pages of re-writes to the screenplay. [12]

A significant amount of the animation and visual effects for the film had been done at DreamWorks Dedicated Unit, an India-based unit at Technicolor. [13]

Release

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted debuted out of competition at the Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2012. [14] The American release followed on June 8, 2012. [15] The film was also converted to the IMAX format and shown in specific European territories, including Russia, Ukraine, and Poland. [16]

Home media

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted was released on DVD, Blu-ray, and Blu-ray 3D on October 16, 2012. It was the first DreamWorks Animation film to use the UltraViolet System and the Blu-ray and Blu-ray 3D comes with a rainbow wig. [17] As of April 2014, 9.1 million home entertainment units were sold worldwide. [18]

Reception

Box office

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted earned $216,391,482 in North America and $530,529,792 in other countries for a worldwide total of $746,921,274. [7] Its worldwide opening weekend totaled $137.6 million. [19] Worldwide, it is the highest-grossing film in the series, [20] the fourth-highest-grossing DreamWorks Animation film, [21] the second-highest-grossing animated film of 2012, and the eighth-highest-grossing film of that year. [22] Overall, it is the eleventh-highest-grossing animated film and the 113th-highest-grossing film of all time. The film took between 66 and 94 days of release, respectively, to out-gross its two predecessors. It surpassed Kung Fu Panda 2 to become DreamWorks' highest-grossing non-Shrek film, and the first non-Shrek film to reach over $700 million.

In North America, the film made $20.7 million on its opening day, which was higher than the opening-day grosses of the original film ($13.9 million) and its sequel ($17.6 million). [23] For its opening weekend, the film ranked at the no. 1 spot, beating Prometheus , with $60.3 million, which was higher than the opening of the original Madagascar ($47.2 million) but was behind the opening weekend of Escape 2 Africa ($63.1 million). [24] It remained at the top spot for two consecutive weekends. [25] In North America, it is the highest-grossing film in the series, [20] the sixth-highest-grossing DreamWorks Animation film, [21] the second-highest-grossing 2012 animated film, [26] and the tenth-highest-grossing film of 2012. [27]

Outside North America, Europe's Most Wanted out-grossed Shrek Forever After to become DreamWorks Animation's highest-grossing film. On its opening weekend, it topped the box office with $77.3 million from 28 countries. [28] It held that position for three consecutive weekends. [29] [30] Its three highest-grossing openings occurred in Russia and the CIS ($15.7 million), China ($10.4 million), and Brazil ($10.1 million in 5 days). [31] It set an opening-day record for animated films in Russia with $3.7 million [32] (since surpassed by Ice Age: Continental Drift ) [33] and became the highest-grossing animated film (surpassed by Ice Age: Continental Drift ) [34] and the third-highest-grossing film ever (at the time), earning $49.4 million. [35] It also set an opening-weekend record for any film in Argentina with $3.80 million [36] (first surpassed by Ice Age: Continental Drift) [37] and it set opening-weekend records for animated films in Brazil, Venezuela, Trinidad, [38] and the United Arab Emirates. Also, Madagascar 3 made $39 million in Germany, $34 million in United Kingdom and $28 million in Italy. [29]

Critical reception

Based on 133 reviews, the film holds an approval rating of 78% on review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes and an average rating of 6.7/10. The site's critical consensus reads: "Dazzlingly colorful and frenetic, Madagascar 3 is silly enough for young kids, but boasts enough surprising smarts to engage parents along the way." [39] This marks the best general review consensus of the film series that has showed improving critical favor; the original film has a score of 55%, [40] and the sequel scores 64%. [41] On Metacritic, it holds a score of 60 out of 100 based on 26 reviews, indicating "mixed or average reviews". [42] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale. [43]

Lisa Kennedy of The Denver Post gave the film 3.5 out of 4 stars and said, "From time to time the improbable occurs: A sequel outdoes its original." [44] Colin Covert of Star Tribune said that Madagascar 3 set a high standard for cartoon comedy and was almost too good for kids. He gave it 3.5 out of 4 stars. [45] Giving the film 3.5 out of 5 stars, Betsy Sharkey of the Los Angeles Times said, "A neon-saturated, high-flying trapeze act with enough frenetic funny business that it's a wonder the folks behind this zillion-dollar franchise about zoo critters on the lam didn't send the animals to the circus sooner." [46] Stephen Witty of the Newark Star-Ledger calls the movie "fun and fast family entertainment. […] the animals' jazzy circus performance, done in black-light colors and set to a Katy Perry song—may be one of the trippiest scenes in a mainstream kiddie movie since Dumbo saw those pink elephants." [47] Film scholar Timothy Laurie writes that the plot development of Madagascar 3 is "met with large servings of personal growth and side dishes of overcooked romance". [48]

Accolades

AwardCategoryNominatedResult
ASCAP Award [49] Top Box Office Films Hans Zimmer Won
Teen Choice Awards [50] Movie Voice Chris Rock Nominated
Summer Movie: Comedy/MusicMadagascar 3
Annie Awards [51] [52] Animated Effects in an Animated ProductionJihyun Yoon
Character Design in an Animated Feature ProductionCraig Kellman
Production Design in an Animated Feature ProductionKendal Cronkhite-Shaindlin, Shannon Jeffries, Lindsey Olivares, Kenard Pak
Storyboarding in an Animated Feature ProductionRob Koo
Satellite Award [53] Motion Picture, Animated or Mixed MediaMadagascar 3
Best Original Song "Love Always Comes as a Surprise" – Peter Asher & Dave Stewart
Critics' Choice Movie Awards [54] Best Animated Feature Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath and Conrad Vernon
Kids' Choice Awards [55] Favorite Animated MovieMadagascar 3
Favorite Voice from an Animated Movie Ben Stiller
Chris Rock

Music

Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted is the soundtrack of the film scored by Hans Zimmer and was released on June 5, 2012. [56] "Afro Circus/I Like to Move It" peaked at 7 on the ARIA Hitseekers Singles chart on the week commencing October 15, 2012. [57]

In some variations of the soundtrack, "Cool Jerk" is featured in replacement of "We No Speak Americano" by Yolanda Be Cool & DCUP. "Sexy and I Know It" by LMFAO was only used in the theatrical trailer, and not included on the soundtrack and was replaced by "Firework" by Katy Perry for the circus. "Any Way You Want It" by Journey and the instrumental "Watermark" from the album of the same name by Enya were also used, but are not included on the soundtrack. "Land of Hope and Glory" by Edward Elgar appears in the track "Fur Power". The "Afro Circus" tune is from "Entrance of the Gladiators", by the Czech composer Julius Fučík.

Video games

A video game based on the film, Madagascar 3: The Video Game, was released on June 5, 2012. [58] The game allows gamers to play as Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria as they travel across Europe promoting the circus by performing stunts, circus acts and completing missions. [58] It was released to PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii, Nintendo 3DS, and Nintendo DS. [58] Published by D3 Publisher, the Wii, Xbox 360, and PlayStation 3 versions were developed by Monkey Bar Games, and the 3DS and DS versions by Torus Games. [58] The game received negative reviews from critics with Metacritic giving the Xbox 360 version a 45/100. [59]

A mobile video game, Madagascar: Join the Circus!, also published by D3 Publisher, was released on June 4, 2012, for iPhone and iPad. The game allows players to build a circus and play mini-games. [60] [61] The game was removed from App Stores on June 16, 2017. [62]

Comic book

A comic book based on the film and titled Madagascar Digest Prequel: Long Live the King! was released on June 12, 2012, by Ape Entertainment. [63] [64]

Future

Spin-off

A spin-off film titled Penguins of Madagascar , depicting the adventures of penguin characters following the events of Madagascar 3, was released on November 26, 2014. [65] [66]

Sequel

In June 2014, it was announced that Madagascar 4 would be released on May 18, 2018. [67] However, in January 2015, the film was removed from the release schedule following a corporate restructuring of DreamWorks Animation. [8] [9] In April 2017, Tom McGrath stated "There are things in the works, nothing is announced yet, but I think they'll show their faces once more." [68]

Notes

  1. ↑ As depicted at the ending of Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)
  2. ↑ As depicted in Madagascar (2005)

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