In 2008's MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA, the endearing New York City zoo animals of the original hit movie return for another zany round of CGI adventures abroad. Leaving the island of the title by way of a ramshackle penguin-designed aircraft, the quartet of Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Gloria the Hippo, and Melman the Giraffe, along with unlikely friends such as King Julien the Lemur, crash-land on the African savannah, setting in motion a whole new series of exploits, involving Alex's long-lost parents and a stranded group of tenacious NYC human tourists.