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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) More at IMDbPro »

• Bernie Mac's last animated feature. This movie was dedicated to him.
  
  
• The sequel Madagascar 3 (2012) was confirmed months before this one came out.
  
  
• 'Moto Moto' means 'Hot Hot' in Swahili.
  
  
• The line the English penguin delivers in his safety speech on the plane is the same safety tip that the rat gives the chickens in the Aardman film, Chicken Run (2000).
  
  
• The song from this movie, "Time 2 Move It/I Like To Move It", was used in a 2008 Chrysler car commercial.
  
  
• A specially-made segment featuring Julien and Private was used as part of a 2008 Comcast Digital Voice commercial.
  
  
• A specially-made segment featuring Alex, Gloria, Melman, Marty, and the penguins was used as part of a 2008 McDonald's restaurant commercial.
  
  
• Alex's family birth-mark is shaped like the continent of Africa, including the island of Madagascar.
  
  
• When the airplane takes flight, Alex looks out the window and sees Mort on the wing, messing with the engine. This is an homage to the classic "The Twilight Zone" (1959) episode "Nightmare at 20,000 Feet" featuring a young William Shatner. It was also used in Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983) "segment 4", starring John Lithgow.
  
  
• The aircraft used in the escape attempt is based on a Lockheed L-10 Electra, similar to one used by Amelia Earhart.
  
  
• When the head penguin asks to kiss the head monkey the monkey replies, "Alright, but you're so darned ugly" is a direct reference to Planet of the Apes (1968). In one scene Taylor (Charlton Heston) says to Zira (Kim Hunter) I'd like to kiss you Zira. Zira replies, "Alright, but you're so damned ugly".
  
  
• In the scene where Alex confuses another zebra for Marty, he makes the comment that they both "laugh alike and talk alike", a reference to the 1963 sitcom "The Patty Duke Show" (1963), in which they use those exact words in the theme song.
  
  
• The hippopotamus who asks if Alex is dancing about a plane crash is voiced by Stacy Ferguson, better known by her stage name, Fergie.
  
  
• Ville Valo, the lead singer of the Finnish band H.I.M. does the voice for "Moto Moto" in the Finnish version of the movie.
  
  
• Jada Pinkett Smith plays the part of Gloria, the Hippo. Her daughter Willow Smith plays Young Gloria in the movie.
  
  
• Just as Jada Pinkett Smith's daughter plays the role of the young Gloria, Ben Stiller's son, Quinn Dempsey Stiller, plays the part of the young Alex.
  
  
• Jeffrey Katzenberg, the assistant CEO of DreamWorks does the voice of the boy knocked off the crescent moon by penguins when the DreamWorks logo comes up.
  
  
• The film's original title was Madagascar 2: The Crate Escape.
  
  
• The film's plot of a scheming lion trying to usurp the throne from his brother by using the king's son as a pawn is similar to the plot from Disney's The Lion King (1994).
  
  
• All of the zebras in the film were voiced by Chris Rock.
  
  
• The first Madagascar movie to release in IMAX.
  
  

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