The first "Madagascar" in 2005 introduced ... scene through Monte Carlo, a trippy circus performance and those familiar scene-stealing penguins. The new characters are wonderfully drawn ...

Story continuity not being a huge priority here, the other lions, zebras, giraffes and hippos the characters ... “Madagascar 3” generates considerable excitement with a pair of circus-act ...

Whatever the reason, “Madagascar 3” finds the franchise finally finding its comedic groove, mixing character-based comedy ... up with a down-on-its-luck circus, pretending to be performers ...

Time for me to dig out my list of “Reasons Why the World Deserves to End in 2012” and amend the entry, “Because there are new installments of both ‘Ice Age’ and ‘Madagascar.’” The ...

elephant and dogs -- basically the entire circus. The film is full of so many characters that there's no space for any breather. Madagascar 3 thus goes ahead at three times the speed of the original.

Escape 2 Africa wasn't even in theaters yet when DreamWorks Animation CEO Jeffrey ...

“Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted” PG ... a little too harrowing. When characters are fired from a circus cannon, or when they’re engaged in a frenetic car chase, the stakes seem ...

In this fur-ociously entertaining sequel, Alex the Lion and his zoo crew try to get home to New York by joining a traveling circus. A funny, snappy script and thrilling action sequences make this ...

The other fresh character with a different sort of appeal is Gia, a slinky Italian jaguar (purringly voiced by Jessica Chastain) who is part of a traveling circus ... in. Madagascar 3 is colorful ...

A round of applause for directors Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath—and Conrad Vernon who joins them to expand on his responsibilities playing Mason the monkey—because they have kind of accomplished the ...

It's way more tolerable than the other mega-franchise featuring a ragtag gang of animals voiced by a ragtag gang of TV and movie stars, Ice Age, and with this third installment, Madagascar 3 ...