Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
Directed by Eric Darnell
Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.
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Additionally, cinephiles will get a kick out of a nod to the Trevi Fountain scene in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita.”
" Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa " amended this off-putting conclusion, but not enough to turn around a creaky enterprise, reminding most of all like a derivative rehash of 1994's "The Lion King."
Hans Zimmer keeps the music flowing throughout and the soundtrack even provides some of the more subtle gags such as the song “Born Free” on one occasion and the Capitaine rallying her severely injured animal control officers by singing Edith Piaf’s signature song “Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien.”
The former film played like a poor-man's version of 2006's " The Wild ," which shared the very same premise, and was topped off by a despairing cheap joke at the end that left its characters stranded with no hope for rescue.