Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa [DVD]

It's a good thing I love this film because my soon to be two son wants this on everyday. He says 'Bubbo'{hippo!} and it's Madagascar time! 1 or 2 but most of time it's 2! From start to finish it's full of classic comic moments and the Blu Ray makes everything come out of the screen at you with it's amazing detail and colour. A most highly recommended film to have in anyone's collection. You don't have to be a child to enjoy it. It's for everyone.

My daughter watches it.

Lets face it, sequels are rarely as good as the original. However Madagascar 2, pretty much manages it. Ideally you'd have seen the first film to fully appreciate the humour.Without spoiling the story for anyone not having seen this film, it follows on nicely from the original, has all the characters from the first, plus some good new ones, and develops the characters further with a good storyline of it's own and some new twists.DVD extras are also good.

Almost better than the original Madagascar, the characters and story line have been developed and have grown into a fantastic family film with all of the hidden inuendos for the adults that you would expect from a family film. Kind Julian shines in all his Lemur glory and steals the show, although there are many funny lines from all the characters, as you would expect. Highly recommended.

I did not enjoy the first Madagascar that much. So naturally I was skeptical about this one.But wrongly so, it would seem.Where the first film never seemed to go anywhere or be particularly funny, this film removed itself from that with a definitive storyline and developed the characters much better than before. Even the irritating King Julian became an integral part of the fun.It felt much more like the Dreamworks films I enjoy so much, with their individual style, offering something for adults with subtle humour and references and plenty for the kids with their wonderful animation and great comic timing and slapstick. Infact you might say that the later Dreamworks films are catering even more for the adults watching with their kids.This Madagascar offers a direct lead on from the first, having the ever resourceful Penguines fix up an old crashed plane, to fly the stranded zoo animals back to New York. They end up crash landing in Africa where they are all originally from, so obviously they all hook up with their native species and find out what like is like in the wild. Alex the lion meets his dad (voiced by the late great Bernie Mac), and accidentally mistakes a fight for a dance contest and gets his family banished, oh, and has to wear a silly hat.Meanwhile the Penguines hatch a plan to rebuilt the now twice crashed plane by hijacking tour jeeps, with hilarious consequences, the brave granny who beats up Alex the lion in the first film is back, and stranded after her tour jeep is hijacked by the Penguines creates a primitive colony of her own with the other tourists.It's all very outrageous, and very good fun. Usually I cant stand Ben Stiller (the voice of Alex the Lion) but in this his talents seemed well disposed, and his delivery brought a smile to my face.This film is a vast improvement over the first, it's funny, witty, has great comic timing and style, an easy to follow story, complete with hilarious side narratives and the return of the well spoken chinpanzee, which adds to the Penguines comedy routine.A great family watch, something for everyone.

One of the few movies where the sequel is actually better than the first. And the first one was great!Lots of humor for all age groups in this movie, just wonderful. We've watched it numerous times with the whole family, it's still not getting old

Our granddaughter loves this film and can now watch while on a car journey

I really enjoyed watching this movie. I perfere it to the first madagascar, even though the fist one was pretty funny too. For me this one had a lot more laughs and was overall a lot more enjoyable. If you like this kind of movies - watch this one! :)