When I was watching the movie, Madagascar 2 Escape Africa, I was intrigued by the way that they started the movie. They started with the birth of Alex in Africa and then he plays with his Father the Lion King. His father is training him to be a fighter , but Alex keeps on dancing. Alex has talent for dancing and then His father's Arch enemy wants to fight , so he fights , while Alex follows a rope out of the reserve and pochers capture him. Alex was put in a box and on a truck. His father saw him disappear and runs out of the reserve to save him. Then he got shot and Alex fell in the river while being in the box. His father assumed that he was still on the truck , so he follows the truck for days, while Alex gently flow half way around the world to Manhattan, New York. He was put in Central park Zoo , and started dancing for audiences. People called him the King of New York.
When he reached Magascar in the first movie, Alex now has a method of escaping to Manhattan with Gloria, Melman, and Marty. Today they have an opening theme of the original song. They will travel by plane flew by penguins, but the plane is so old that it landed in Africa or crash landed. Alex explored the area and found his parents.
Things go wrong when he has a fight and that fight was with the biggest lion. He lost and was banished from the water hole for 1000 years. His parents came with him. What will happen to Alex the lion and his family?
The animation and sound effects were amazing. Ben Stiller as Marty had an amazing voice and he worked extremely hard.The sound effects like the plane crashing and the plane flying were amazing. I really found it funny that an old women was able to beat up a grown, male lion. There was one part when they were about to roast Alex and his father rescued him. His father could have been shot , but Alex the Lion immediately broke into a dance. He was dancing the way he was in New York, that everybody reconized him because the people trying to kill him were stranded tourists from new York. His father found it amazing that dance can be useful and he was so happy He felt a pulse and started dancing with his son.
This is a comedical animated movie, but it can get dramatic.
I would rate the movie:
Overall Grade: B+
Story: A
The story may contiue the first , but it was better than the first. It has a comedian that makes people laugh like in the first part where the plane almost crashed , but flew back up. One penguin says, "I have some good news and Bad news. The Good news is that we be landing immediately, the bad news is we be crash landing."
I was laughing so hard that I was running out of breath.
Acting: B+
Direction: B+
Visuals: B
