Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted [Blu-ray]

Director: Conrad Vernon, Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Thomas J. McGrath, Bret Haaland

Overview

The third entry in the Madagascar franchise finds the tightknit group of animals joining a traveling circus in order to get back home. Noah Baumbach provides the script, with Eric Darnell handling director duties. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, and Sacha Baron Cohen reprise the voice roles, with Frances McDormand stepping in as the villain.

Product Details

Release Date:	06/05/2018
UPC:	0191329061213
Original Release:	2012
Rating:	PG
Language:	English
Time:	1:34:00
Sales rank:	5,142

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Ben Stiller	Alex
Chris Rock	Marty
David Schwimmer	Melman
Jada Pinkett Smith	Gloria
Sacha Baron Cohen	King Julien
Cedric the Entertainer	Maurice
Andy Richter	Mort
Tom McGrath	Skipper/First Policeman
Frances McDormand	Captain Chantal Dubois
Jessica Chastain	Gia
Bryan Cranston	Vitaly
Martin Short	Stefano
Christopher Knights	Private
Conrad Vernon	Mason/Second Policeman
Vinnie Jones	Freddie the Dog,Jonesy the Dog
Paz Vega	Horses
Dan O'Connor	Casino Security/Mayor of New York City
Eric Darnell	Comandante/Zoo Official/Zoo Announcer
Stephen Kearin	Fourth Policeman
Emily Nordwind	Zoo Official
Asucena Jimenez	Kid in Crowd
Jan Josef Liefers	Voices
Rick Kavanian	Voices
Bastian Pastewka	Voices
Claudia Urbschat-Mingues	Voices
Roland Hemmo	Voices
Gerald Schaale	Voices
Anthony Kavanagh	Voices
Jean-Paul Rouve	Voices
Marina Fo?s	Voices
Micha?l Youn	Voices
Xavier Fagnon	Voices
Emmanuel Garijo	Voices
John DiMaggio	Voices
Karin Gidfors	Voices
Regina Lund	Voices
Niclas Wahlgren	Voices
Claes Ljungmark	Voices
Anders Lundin	Voices
Michael Nyqvist	Voices
Johan Hedenberg	Voices
Mikael Tornving	Voices
Fredrik Hiller	Voices
Peter Arpesella	Dad / French Policeman / Vitaly's Fan
Francesca Fanti	Lady in Italian Circus / Horse
Jeffrey Katzenberg	Rico
Danny Jacobson	Circus Master / Croupier
Christopher Miller	Kowalski
Nick Fletcher	Frankie the Dog
Jim Cummings	Sonya
Danny Jacobs	Croupier
Hans Zimmer	Composer

Technical Credits

Eric Darnell

Noah Baumbach

Alejandro Bien-Willner

Marc Hyman

Billy Frolick

Eric Darnell	Screenwriter
Noah Baumbach	Screenwriter
Mireille Soria	Producer
Mark Swift	Producer,Producer
Will E. Files	Sound/Sound Designer
Leslee Feldman	Casting
Christi Soper Hilt	Casting
Claudia SouthMartin	Production Manager
Dinesh Krishnan-Nair	Production Manager
Alejandro Bien-Willner	Screenwriter
Marc Hyman	Screenwriter
Billy Frolick	Screenwriter
Holly Edwards	Producer

Editorial Reviews

Movies, like people, benefit from a great first impression, and the animated sequel Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted certainly leads with its strongest sequence. Opening with an elaborate chase scene through Monte Carlo, the filmmakers keep adding physical and verbal gags with dizzying confidence until the sequence establishes its own laws of physics -- like when the Road Runner could hover in the air forever while Wile E. Coyote would plummet to the ground. It's arguably the best sustained bit in any of the Madagascar films, and it builds up such good will that we can forgive the rest of the picture for never matching it. The story this time around is that dear friends Alex the Lion (voice of Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer), and Gloria the Hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) leave Madagascar and wind up in Europe, where they are chased by Captain Chantal DuBois (Frances McDormand), a police officer whose greatest joy is mounting the heads of animals she's killed on her office walls. The menagerie hide out in a circus train, and they eventually decide to buy the company and put on a show so entertaining that they will be booked to perform in New York City, finally allowing them to return home. With a co-screenwriting credit by Noah Baumbach, you might expect something different from the third film in this successful franchise, but the result is more of a consolidation than a reinvention. The jokes are better, the characters' emotional arcs give everything a solid foundation, and the voice actors who are new to the series (McDormand, Martin Short, Bryan Cranston) all bring fresh energy to a cinematic universe that looked to be creatively spent halfway through Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa. Dreamworks has three very different animated tentpoles. The fractured fairy-tale Shrek films have made billions of dollars worldwide, the Kung Fu Panda movies are the studio's most artistically successful, and the Madagascar franchise falls somewhere in between those two. With comic talents like Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, and Sacha Baron Cohen, these movies have a higher bar to clear than the average family film. It would be easy for everyone to coast through these films, but Cohen is as uninhibited -- if markedly less dangerous -- here as he is in his own starring vehicles, and Rock has never had a better vehicle for transferring his stand-up skills to the big screen. These movies meet our expectations -- occasionally providing a few moments of unexpected, smart hilarity -- but nothing more. Audiences would have been rightfully exhausted had the film tried to maintain the manic energy of its first big scene, but if the creative team had managed to get close to it a few more times, they would have had a standout movie. As it is, Madagascar 3 is satisfying without ever aiming for greatness.