Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted Page #4

Synopsis: Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman are still trying to get back to the Big Apple and their beloved Central Park zoo, but first they need to find the penguins. When they travel to Monte Carlo, they attract the attention of Animal Control after gate crashing a party and are joined by the penguins, King Julian and Co., and the monkeys. How do a lion, zebra, hippo, giraffe, four penguins, two monkeys, three lemurs travel through Europe without attracting attention and get back to New York? They join a traveling circus. Their attempts to get back to New York are consistently hampered by the Captain of Animal Control who wants to make Alex part of her collection. Once they make it back to New York Marty, Alex, Gloria and Melman realize that they want to be part of the traveling circus.
Production: Paramount/Dreamworks
  2 wins & 20 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.9
Metacritic:
60
Rotten Tomatoes:
79%
PG
Year:
2012
93 min
$216,366,733
Website
5,294 Views


No promoter is sending this show

to America. lt's toe up!

Now it all makes sense.

No wonder the circus master

was so happy to sell.

He was happy, all right.

Happy about ripping us off!

Where did Alex go?

l don't know.

Come on! This way!

No, no, no. You come this way!

Alice, watch your head!

Alice!

l'm fine!

Fantastic!

Was that trapeze americano?

Yeah. Sort of.

lncredible!

l hope this is important.

Come this way, Alice!

By the way, it's "icks" not "iss."

Alex. Like New York Knicks.

l know. New York Kniss. ls not hard.

Whoa.

What is this place?

l know you think we are

a stinky, poopy circus,

but there is something you must know.

There was a time

when Circus Zaragoza,

we were a great circus!

Numero uno in all the Europa!

And Vitaly...

he was the biggest star of us all.

He was fearless.

Taking risks. Always new.

He jump through the hoop

like he could fly!

Stefano!

Make the hoop smaller.

Like this?

Smaller.

- Like this?

- Good!

lt had never been done before

because it was physically impossible!

And the people... they loved it!

Viva Vitaly!

Smaller!

And the hoop, she got smaller!

Like the ring

on a finger of the tiniest lady

with the slimmest of fingers.

Bravo, Vitaly!

He would not stop pushing.

And one fateful day...

...he push too far!

Light the hoop on fire!

He fly too close to the sun...

and he got burned.

Literally. The extra virgin olive oil

is extra flammable.

And he lost everything.

His wife, she run off with a musician.

He lost his dignity... his fame...

...his passion... and his fur.

And when it grow back, it is less soft.

More like a prickly beard.

Scusi. Vitaly!

Nothing!

His only passion now is the borscht.

Whoa.

He was our inspiration.

So when he lost his passion,

well... as Vitaly goes,

so goes the circus.

This is why we need your help.

What sort of help?

You can teach us to do new circus.

Americano style!

We find a new passion.

Make a new show.

And we go all the way to US and A!

l know. lt is stupido idea.

We are a lost cause.

No, no, this isn't stupido.

This could work!

- What?

- What you just said.

- What?

- The idea you said. Two seconds ago.

- What?

- Your stupido idea!

- lt could?

- Stefano, you're a genius!

No, no, no, no.

l am only average intelligence.

Some say l'm even slightly below.

We are gonna rethink everything

anybody's ever known about circus!

l call it Phase 4-7B,

wherein, in order to get home,

we will come up with something fresh,

something amazing,

something brand-new!

Fresh, never before seen!

Off the chain!

Something that'll blow

that circus promoter away!

l missed.

- Off with your head!

- l'm gonna chew his leg off!

Circus has been same for generations!

We make good,

classic family entertainment.

But last few generations,

families... not so entertained.

That's right.

Families not so entertained

because you're just going

through the motions out there.

lt's missing passion.

How one to have passion

for stool poked in face?

Exactly! And by stool

you mean chair, right?

The fact is, you guys,

you got stuck in a rut.

You stopped pushing,

you stopped taking risks.

But those days are over.

Because now we're going

to completely change the show.

Then it wouldn't be a circus, would it?

Circus is not about the acts you do.

Circus is in here.

How come Freddie gets all the circus?

Circus is about following your passions,

wherever they take you!

You cannot change circus.

There is long tradition!

That's what everybody thought, Vitaly,

until those French Canadians came along,

drunk off their maple syrup

and cheap pharmaceuticals,

and completely flipped the paradigm.

Now they play Vegas.

Fifty shows a day in 52 separate venues.

And one of them

completely in the nude.

Yeah, that's right.

And you know how they did it?

Take off their clothes?

- No. They got rid of the animals.

- What?

- Say it ain't so!

- Che stupida! No animals...

- How could they?!

- Well, you know what l say to that!

l say they can take

the animals out of the circus,

but they cannot take

the animals out of the circus!

l mean, they cannot...

l think you understand what l'm saying!

- Yeah!

- Yes!

No!

We don't need humans

because we've got passion.

What does a human say

when he's passionate?

He says, "l'm an animal!"

Well, we are animals!

We'll make an all-animal circus!

Because if we follow our passion,

we can go anywhere.

- Anywhere!

- We can do anything!

- Anything!

- lf we do it together!

- All of us!

- Yeah... Yeah, yeah!

- Our circus!

- Yeah!

We're in! We'll have some of that!

Can l hear you say "fur power"?

Fur power!

Take our circus back,

and we'll do it together!

You and me, baby! An act together!

l love it!

We can do

that funk and groove dance thing!

- Dance?

- This thing right here. Look.

Me and you! We got this!

But l can't dance.

Fur power!

Chanting is fun! Chanting is fun!

l do not trust this lion.

Vitaly, l may not trust him, either,

but l am tired of sitting

and standing and rolling over.

lt is great tradition

of sitting, standing, rolling over.

You know our circus is in trouble.

This could be our last chance.

But we will not do this without you.

Circus always stay together.

OK. l do one hoop.

l want a hug, too!

Attention! l have found our lion!

He is hiding with the circus!

Come on, Maurice, give it to me!

More boomstick, Rico!

l really want to fly!

Are you really going

to shoot yourself out of that thing?

l've always dreamed of doing this,

from time l was a little pup,

to be a human cannonball!

Except, you know...

a sea lion cannonball.

ls it dangerous?

ls it dangerous?

Yes, of course it's dangerous!

- Now, are you sure about this?

- l'm sure.

'Cause if blowing up is your thing,

then you in the right place.

S. That's means yes!

Ready for launch?

Ready for launch!

Fire in the hole!

Wait!

Mamma mia!

Help me!

Rico! Get the cannon ready!

Same charge!

Fire in the hole!

All right!

Yeah!

Marty! l'm so glad you're here.

l was flying! l was effin'-L-Y-in'!

l'm proud of you, but...

...l don't think

l can hold on much longer!

Oh, yeah, right.

Sorry about my enthusiasm.

Here, wrap this around you.

All right, l got you! l got you!

Forget about being part of the herd!

l'm gonna be part of the flock!

l'm going to fly, baby!

Oh, yes! What a triumph!

- Hand over that circus, Freddie!

- l'll have your guts for garters!

Hey, hey, put your weapons down.

Guys, chill out. Cute and cuddly's

obviously not your thing.

He's got us pegged.

l got a better idea. Show 'em, Rico.

That was great!

- Flippin' 'eck!

- Rocket shoes!

l want to try that!

Jonesy! Jonesy!

Hey. Hi.

l admire how you

have inspired these animals.

Thanks.

And what you said about passion,

it was like poetry.

l love passion and poetry.

They go together, really.

l know they don't rhyme.

Trapeze is my passion!

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Eric Darnell

Eric Darnell (born 1961) is an American animator, director, writer, songwriter and occasional voice actor best known for co-directing Antz with Tim Johnson, as well as co-directing and co-writing Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted with Tom McGrath. more…

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