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| Director: | Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon | 
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| Writer: | Noah Baumbach, Eric Darnell | 
| Staring: | 
| Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria 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 picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 06, 2012 | 
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| Director: | Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon | 
| Writer: | Noah Baumbach, Eric Darnell | 
| Genres: | Animation, Family, Comedy, Adventure | 
| Keywords | circus, lion, zoo, hippopotamus, giraffe, penguin, villain, madagascar, friendship, cartoon, zebra, slapstick comedy, animals, lemur, talking animal | 
| Production Companies | Pacific Data Images, DreamWorks Animation | 
| Box Office | Revenue: $746,921,274 Budget: $145,000,000 | 
| Updates | Updated: Aug 03, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 | 
| Name | Character | 
|---|---|
| Ben Stiller | Alex (voice) | 
| Chris Rock | Marty (voice) | 
| David Schwimmer | Melman (voice) | 
| Jada Pinkett Smith | Gloria (voice) | 
| Frances McDormand | Captain Chantel DuBois (voice) | 
| Sacha Baron Cohen | Julien (voice) | 
| Andy Richter | Mort (voice) | 
| Cedric the Entertainer | Maurice (voice) | 
| Jessica Chastain | Gia (voice) | 
| Bryan Cranston | Vitaly (voice) | 
| Martin Short | Stefano (voice) | 
| Paz Vega | Carmen (voice) | 
| Frank Welker | Sonya (voice) | 
| Tom McGrath | Skipper / First Policeman (voice) | 
| Chris Miller | Kowalski (voice) | 
| Christopher Knights | Private (voice) | 
| Conrad Vernon | Mason / Second Policeman (voice) | 
| Vinnie Jones | Freddie the Dog (voice) | 
| Steve Jones | Jonesy the Dog (voice) | 
| Nick Fletcher | Frankie the Dog (voice) | 
| Danny Jacobs | Croupier / Circus Master (voice) | 
| Dan O'Connor | Casino Security / Mayor of New York City (voice) | 
| Eric Darnell | Comandante / Zoo Official / Zoo Announcer (voice) | 
| Stephen Kearin | Fourth Policeman (voice) | 
| Emily Nordwind | Zoo Official (voice) | 
| Asucena Jimenez-Cruz | Kid in Crowd (voice) | 
| Name | Job | 
|---|---|
| Noah Baumbach | Screenplay | 
| Carlos Zaragoza | Set Designer | 
| Travis Koller | Visual Development | 
| Eric Darnell | Screenplay, Director | 
| Goro Fujita | Visual Development | 
| Tom McGrath | Characters, Director | 
| Kevin Kaska | Orchestrator | 
| Swetha Madhavan | Production Coordinator | 
| Aleksey Igudesman | Musician | 
| Geefwee Boedoe | Additional Effects Development | 
| Sheila E. | Musician | 
| Ronni Brown | Foley | 
| Craig Kellman | Character Designer | 
| Frank Ricotti | Musician | 
| Kendal Cronkhite | Production Design | 
| Tiffany Hillkurtz | Second Film Editor | 
| Rachel Bolt | Musician | 
| Tom Holkenborg | Additional Music | 
| Dennis Leonard | Supervising Sound Editor | 
| Lindsey Olivares | Visual Development | 
| Rani Naamani | Lead Animator | 
| Jeremy Bowker | Sound Effects Editor | 
| Bryan Gregg LaShelle | Visual Development | 
| John Allwine | Visual Effects | 
| James Sathre | Lighting Technician | 
| Chad Hammes | Line Producer | 
| Nick Fletcher | Editor | 
| Leslee Feldman | Casting | 
| Christi Soper Hilt | Casting | 
| Shannon Jeffries | Art Direction | 
| Mary Grace Hartline | Art Department Assistant | 
| Taryn Feingold | Actor's Assistant | 
| Alissa Rowinsky Wright | Legal Services | 
| Monica Dejbakhsh | Legal Services | 
| Kyle Goins | Legal Services | 
| Mona Shokrai | Legal Services | 
| James Beshears | Executive In Charge Of Post Production | 
| Judah Mambu | Production Coordinator | 
| Tripp Hudson | Executive In Charge Of Production | 
| Darci Zalvin | Executive In Charge Of Production | 
| Karen L. Whitaker | Animation Department Coordinator | 
| Nathan Wall | Animation | 
| Rachel Fite | Animation | 
| George Meppadath Kurian | Animation | 
| Ross Burgess | Animation | 
| Richard Quinn | Dialogue Editor | 
| Ariga Parseghian | Finance | 
| Vicki Hunter | Finance | 
| Terri Anderson | Finance | 
| Anisha Gupta | VFX Artist, Lighting Artist | 
| Angela Ensele | Modeling | 
| Slamm Andrews | Music Editor | 
| Jonathan Williams | Musician | 
| Roger Linley | Musician | 
| Steve Mair | Musician | 
| Paul Clarvis | Musician | 
| Gary Kettel | Musician | 
| Ian Thomas | Musician | 
| Dan Newell | Musician | 
| Bruce White | Musician | 
| Mark Berrow | Musician | 
| Jonathan Evans-Jones | Musician | 
| Tom Pigott-Smith | Musician | 
| Walt Fowler | Orchestrator | 
| Casey Sword | Production Coordinator | 
| Victor Fuste | Production Coordinator | 
| Bonnie Lemon | Executive In Charge Of Production | 
| Beth Hofer | Executive In Charge Of Production | 
| Tracey Dispensa | Production Supervisor | 
| Christine Nguyen | Production Supervisor | 
| Aditya Deosthale | Production Supervisor | 
| Camille Leganza | Production Supervisor | 
| Will Files | Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer | 
| Geoff Foster | Score Engineer | 
| Yoriko Ito | Production Illustrator | 
| Ariandy Chandra | Title Designer | 
| Ken Ball | CG Supervisor | 
| Greg Lev | CG Supervisor | 
| Igor Lodeiro | CG Supervisor | 
| Gaku Nakatani | CG Supervisor | 
| Ronman Yiu Yan Ng | CG Supervisor | 
| Gabriel Portnof | CG Supervisor | 
| Milton E. Rodriguez-Rios | CG Supervisor | 
| Aaron Smith | CG Supervisor | 
| Laura Gorenstein Miller | Choreographer | 
| Nishok Alagesan | Compositors | 
| Erin Lehmkühl | Compositors | 
| Elizabeth Himelstein | Dialect Coach | 
| Alex Cardullo | Post Production Assistant | 
| David Yanover | Post Production Supervisor | 
| Brent Villalobos | Software Engineer | 
| Margaret A. Decker | Software Engineer | 
| Rain Angeles | Systems Administrators & Support | 
| Bart Feliciano | Systems Administrators & Support | 
| John O'Sullivan | Systems Administrators & Support | 
| Kevin Crandell | Visual Effects Editor | 
| Jim Passon | Color Timer | 
| Peter Ettinger | First Assistant Editor | 
| Nathan Schauf | First Assistant Editor | 
| Adarsh Abraham | Lighting Artist | 
| Onny P. Carr | Lighting Artist | 
| Kirsten Drummond | Lighting Artist | 
| Shane Glading | Lighting Artist | 
| Dorien Gunnels | Lighting Artist | 
| Oth Khotsimeuang | Lighting Artist | 
| Jennifer Leigh King | Lighting Artist | 
| Stanley Kwong | Lighting Artist | 
| Linhan Li | Lighting Artist | 
| Nitin Punchail | Lighting Artist | 
| Afonso Salcedo | Lighting Artist | 
| Hannah Sherman | Lighting Artist | 
| Sahaya Ramesh Bosco | Lighting Artist | 
| Javed Iqbal Shaikh | Lighting Artist | 
| Ajay Upadhyay | Lighting Artist | 
| Sharanya Viswamani | Lighting Artist | 
| Mollie Gamo | Casting Assistant | 
| Betty Tom | Production Accountant | 
| Nandhini Giri | Production Coordinator | 
| Lauren Blackshear | Production Coordinator | 
| Laura C. Denton | Production Coordinator | 
| Cate Celso | Production Coordinator | 
| Allie Habeeb | Production Coordinator | 
| Allie Habeeb | Production Coordinator | 
| Stephanie Huber | Production Coordinator | 
| Monalisa Kar | Production Coordinator | 
| Shashank Ashok Kulkarni | Production Coordinator | 
| Deepak Kumar | Production Coordinator | 
| Tim Kwan | Production Coordinator | 
| Jonathan B. Lee | Production Coordinator | 
| Kyle Milardo | Production Coordinator | 
| Aubrey Millen | Production Coordinator | 
| Eric Michael Miller | Production Coordinator | 
| Stephanie Quan | Production Coordinator | 
| Caroline Robinson | Production Coordinator | 
| Bobbak Sabet | Production Coordinator | 
| Cathy Sitzes | Production Coordinator | 
| Yimi Tong | Production Coordinator | 
| Sumit Verma | Production Coordinator | 
| Ben Zaehringer | Production Coordinator | 
| Dinesh Krishnan Nair | Production Manager | 
| Milind D. Shinde | Production Manager | 
| Claudia Southmartin | Production Manager | 
| David Edmunds | Production Supervisor | 
| Jannette Eng | Production Supervisor | 
| Meredith Narrowe | Production Supervisor | 
| Rakesh S. Patil | Production Supervisor | 
| Rachnatp | Production Supervisor | 
| Ryan Genji Thomas | Production Supervisor | 
| Cindy Azada Whitman | Production Supervisor | 
| Dawn Yamada | Production Supervisor | 
| David Hail | Publicist | 
| Sean England | Foley | 
| Rick Giovinazzo | Orchestrator | 
| Ladd McIntosh | Orchestrator | 
| Ed Neumeister | Orchestrator | 
| Gary Summers | Sound Re-Recording Mixer | 
| Dustin Cawood | Sound Effects Editor | 
| Andrii Trifonov | Sound Recordist | 
| Nedy Acet | Animation | 
| Teju Aloysius | Animation | 
| Chris Bancroft | Animation | 
| Bailey Brent | Animation | 
| Nelson Brown | Animation | 
| Sujit Chatterjee | Animation | 
| Renjith Chundakkad | Animation | 
| Lou Dellarosa | Animation | 
| Lance Fite | Animation | 
| Alexander Fleisig | Animation | 
| Maciek Gliwa | Animation | 
| Ryan Gong | Animation | 
| Tomoyuki Harashima | Animation | 
| Mariko Hoshi | Animation | 
| Jeffrey Joe | Animation | 
| Shajo John | Animation | 
| Maharshi Joseph | Animation | 
| Chris Kirshbaum | Animation | 
| Manish Kumar | Animation | 
| Scott Lafleur | Animation | 
| Peer Lemmers | Animation | 
| Sean Mahoney | Animation | 
| Roy Margalit | Animation | 
| Prasanjib Nag | Animation | 
| Rajesh P.K. | Animation | 
| Robyne Powell | Animation | 
| Ron Pucherelli | Animation | 
| Laure Retif | Animation | 
| Cory Rogers | Animation | 
| Mike Safianoff | Animation | 
| David Spivack | Animation | 
| Dane Stogner | Animation | 
| Aljo Thomas | Animation | 
| Sebastien Wojda | Animation | 
| Ardie Johnson | Modeling | 
| Steve McGrath | Modeling | 
| John P. Rand | Modeling | 
| Armando Sepulveda | Modeling | 
| Phil Zucco | Modeling | 
| Marty Havran | Modeling | 
| James Wood Wilson | Visual Development | 
| Chin Ko | Visual Development | 
| Stevie Lewis | Visual Development | 
| Erwin Madrid | Visual Development | 
| Sam Michlap | Visual Development | 
| Kenard Pak | Visual Development | 
| Yash Agrawal | Visual Effects | 
| Madhavaro Bheesetti | Visual Effects | 
| Yiqun Chen | Visual Effects | 
| Nishant Khanna | Visual Effects | 
| Fangwei Lee | Visual Effects | 
| Kyle Maxwell | Visual Effects | 
| Jacob K. Melvin | Visual Effects | 
| Dave Strick | Visual Effects | 
| Mark Theriault | Visual Effects | 
| Benjamin Andersen | VFX Artist | 
| Greg Beckman | VFX Artist | 
| Shiben Bhattacharjee | VFX Artist | 
| N. Joseph Burnette | VFX Artist | 
| Vikas Chandel | VFX Artist | 
| Stephen Timothy Cooney | VFX Artist | 
| Carl Kaphan | VFX Artist | 
| Robert Kopinsky | VFX Artist | 
| Rahul Nair | VFX Artist | 
| Alex Patanjo | VFX Artist | 
| Dhruva Pathak | VFX Artist | 
| Shanmuga Raja | VFX Artist | 
| Nikhil Sinha | VFX Artist | 
| Lana Chen Sun | VFX Artist | 
| Ben Sutherland | VFX Artist | 
| Katie Van Maanen | VFX Artist | 
| Andrew Wheeler | VFX Artist | 
| Ramakrishna Yerramsetty | VFX Artist | 
| Mark Burton | Characters | 
| Sarah Jane Chin | Visual Effects Coordinator | 
| Mahesh Ramasubramanian | Visual Effects Supervisor | 
| Cassidy Curtis | Lead Animator, Animation Supervisor | 
| Mark Donald | Lead Animator, Animation Supervisor | 
| Bryce McGovern | Lead Animator, Animation Supervisor | 
| Carlos Fernandez Puertolas | Lead Animator, Animation Supervisor | 
| Jason Ryan | Animation Supervisor | 
| Jason Spencer-Galsworthy | Lead Animator, Animation Supervisor | 
| David Torres | Animation Supervisor | 
| Guillermo Careaga | Lead Animator | 
| Mark Roennigke | Lead Animator | 
| Melanie Cordan | Lead Animator | 
| Cameron Fielding | Lead Animator | 
| Kevin Andrus | Lead Animator | 
| Nideep Varghese | Supervising Animator | 
| Riyad C.M. | Supervising Animator | 
| Philip Cohen | Production Supervisor | 
| Matt Salkin | Production Assistant | 
| Josh Wood | Post Production Assistant | 
| Mac Smith | Sound Effects Editor | 
| Hans Zimmer | Original Music Composer | 
| Lorne Balfe | Additional Music | 
| Yvonne Suzette Moriarty | Orchestrator | 
| Conrad Vernon | Director | 
| Emily Nordwind | Production Supervisor | 
| Name | Title | 
|---|---|
| Mark Swift | Producer | 
| Mireille Soria | Producer | 
| Holly Edwards | Associate Producer | 
| Organization | Category | Person | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAFTA Awards | Best Animated Feature | N/A | Nominated | 
| Venice Film Festival | Best Animated Feature | N/A | Nominated | 
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