Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (Two-Disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo)

I LOVE all of the Madagascar movies. They make me laugh, which we all need that these days. I've watched all 3 of the movies many times, because I never get tired of the funny things they do. Who said this movie is for kids? Heck I'm an old lady & can't get enough of Alex, Marty, Melman, Gloria & the rest of the gang. King Julien is a wild & crazy guy!!

Mom, Dad, kids, Grandma, Grandpa... yup the whole crew will likely enjoy this installment of the Madagascar series. There's enough laughs to keep everyone interested and the voice actors really help to bring the point home with their great representations of the characters. This time these zany animals try to make it home from Madagascar, but the penguin repaired plane doesn't quite make it back to New York city. Instead, it crash lands in Africa where Alex (the lion) is reunited with his family. All the animals settle in to what would be their natural habitats, but quickly find out that maybe it's not all what it is cracked up to be. Gloria wants to be appreciated for who she is, and not her appearance... Marty wants to stand out from the herd again... and the poor giraffe gets convinced of his mortality and ends up blurting out his big secret just in time... there's also plenty of family pride troubles with Alex and his father, which become worked out after a few... overall it is a fun movie packed with some very catchy tunes that the kids will be singing for days.The Blu Ray looks great, sharp and detailed. It doesn't look as fantastic as some of the newer films coming out, since it has age and older technology working against it, but the stylized look of the animals helps the movie from looking too dated. This one comes with a DVD as well, which is nice to have in the car on the go, or for the kids' rooms.

DVD in great condition, unbelievable price and timely shipping. Who could ask for more?

Madagascar 2 was delightfully refreshing and adorable. Rented it for a sleepover my granddaughter was coming to our house to have, and she wanted to watch movies and have popcorn. I chose the movie because she hadn't seen it. It started out with a bang, and went full speed form there! Characters were adorable and quirky, and the pace never dragged. By the time I got in bed to watch the movie with my granddaughter, she was asleep! lol But that was ok, I watched it! lol I haven't watched an animated movie in over 15 years, but LOVED this one! A few adult humor jokes thrown in for the grown ups, but found one awkward and a bit innappropriate, but the rest were fine. It was uplifting, had a clear moral, and the penguins and lemurs were hysterical! A very fast paced family movie that I would watch again and again. Getting Madagascar 3 nex time she comes!

King Julian & the penguins...the slightly fem lion and those other of his so called 'friends' are really just vehicles for the adult viewer to watch penguins and the king and MAURICE!! Let's face it, this movie is all about what the adults get out of it. Look, I even tried out some of Moto Moto's lines on my wife. Now, as soon as I'm released from sleeping on the camping cot in the garage, I can fish the movie out of the trash and really get down to memorizing those Moto Moto lines. I want to use them in front of her at our garden parties; YEOW! Great movie; a paradigm of my own life. What to do when you crash and have to make the best of it. Scholars will show this film in film school thirty years from now for its deep and prolific meanings and subtlety. Now, why did she lock the garage door from the outside? Ugh...when my phone battery dies it will be too dark in here.

My 2nd copy!

A good belly laugh is what we all need these days to break the tension of what's going on in the real world. My 9-yr old grandson and I watched M:E2A together and reveled in its slapstick comedy. It characters are "caricatures" of some of the world's most recognizeable animals made cutely endearing with their exaggerated body features and endowed with the "right" human voice personality. We laughed until out of breath at the exaggerated body features made even more hilarious by the dialogue and the impossible slapstick comedy routines during the plane crash, the martial arts, the made up mechanical skills of the monkeys. It was all in your face humor and we loved it. Not even the silly romantic understory of a giraffe falling in love with a "hippie" hippo lady could spoil the fun. We're going to see if we can rent the sequels as well. Bring on the belly laughs!

Although some of the innuendos may not be appropriate for children whom may not otherwise understand it, the overall movie is really good and extremely funny. As with most sequels, it is not as good as the 1st or 3rd movies of this series. As with most sequels, the producers realize that they made a hit with the 1st movie and so try and do another one. This is good, not great, yet good. It is worth the asking price to buy it. Which we have. It is up beat and not very political in nature as with many of the kids movies now a days. So my children can enjoy a good wholesome animated movie with out much hidden agendas.Good Luck America

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.

My daughter watches it.

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

Bought as a gift for a family friend to complete their Madagascar dvd collection and they were extremely pleased with it 😃

This is funnier than the first one and definately worth a look. Is a film that you would watch again, suitable for all the family, with some very touching moments, with the cutest lion cub ever drawn!!