Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

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Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted

PG

2012

1h 25m

Kids & Family

Comedy

Adventure

Animation

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Animal pals Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer) and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) 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 (Frances McDormand) picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.

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Critics Consensus

Dazzlingly colorful and frenetic, Madagascar 3 is silly enough for young kids, but boasts enough surprising smarts to engage parents along the way.

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Sophie Monks Kaufman

Little White Lies

10/24/2012

2/5

A sugar high that inevitably fades with time.

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London Evening Standard

10/19/2012

3/5

This is animation that never just goes through the motions but glories in its feats and so, almost certainly, will you.

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Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

10/18/2012

4/5

Here is a family movie from which absolutely nothing is expected, and yet it's one of the week's best releases: a muscular, potent and very funny film.

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Jack Fleischer

Battleship Pretension

03/24/2021

Madagascar 3 isn't an emotional ride the way Pixar's films tend towards, but it's relentlessly goofy fun. Good for some laughs, I say take a small person and see what happens.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/15/2020

3.0/4.0

May very well become America's most wanted film this first weekend in June.

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Allen Almachar

The MacGuffin

07/31/2020

C+

I will not call watching the movie a bad experience. But to be honest with you, that's not saying much.

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Chris

06/02/2021

My granddaughter liked the movie. She just turned 8.

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Tyler S

@tylerking24 Jun 29

Best one of the trilogy, and it still wasn't that great. You can tell they really tried to give a stronger plot here, but it just didn't land for me like the creators were prolly expecting. Still not bad, just wished it was better.

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Frans B

@FransB Jun 14

Still brilliant! Seems it grows more with every iteration. Huge adventure this time around. Still very well written and directed. Cinematography still amazing and visually stunning, even more so than predecessors. Whole stellar cast still shines convincingly in character. Lots of action, silliness, sharp wit, calamity, lollygagging, drama, suspense, intrigue, emotion and frantic pace. Very entertaining and captivating, classic all the way ...

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Matteo Q

@Matteo59 Apr 26

Il finale non mi è piaciuto

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Benjamin W.

@Code70 Apr 19

Satisfying conclusion to a consistently solid trilogy. The Madagascar franchise isn’t my favorite, but it’s actually pretty consistent, and Europe’s Most Wanted might be the best one. It concluded the trilogy in satisfying fashion, delivering another fun adventure while wrapping the trilogy’s overarching storylines and themes with surprising poignancy. It’s still not a great movie, but I feel like it was a pretty nice way to close out this adventure.

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Dave P.

@RT20712526 Apr 18

This is one of the best movies I have seen of all time it’s the perfect mix chaotic and comedy every character is played very well by each voice actor if I could recommend one movie for everyone to watch I’d be this one

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Synopsis

Animal pals Alex (Ben Stiller), Marty (Chris Rock), Melman (David Schwimmer) and Gloria (Jada Pinkett Smith) 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 (Frances McDormand) picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.

Director: Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon
Producer: Mireille Soria, Mark Swift
Screenwriter: Eric Darnell, Noah Baumbach
Distributor: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG
Production Co: DreamWorks, PDI
Rating: PG (Some Mild Action|Rude Humor)
Genre: Kids & Family, Comedy, Adventure, Animation
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jun 8, 2012, Wide
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 25, 2015
Runtime: 1h 25m