Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[ronnie]

In one scene, Skipper yells "Baba Booey", the nickname of Gary Dell'Abate, and a term that is sometimes yelled during 'live' interviews from passerbys.

[melinda]

Ben Stiller's 4th DreamWorks Animation film after Madagascar (2005), Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008), and Megamind (2010). All these films were directed by Tom McGrath and composed by Hans Zimmer.

[frances]

The second theatrically released final installment of a computer-animated franchise after Shrek Forever After (2010), which is also from DreamWorks Animation.

[morris]

When Melman and Gloria are on the high wire. Gloria tells Melman, "All eyes on me." Gloria voiced by Jada Pinkett Smith, was very close friends with the late Tupac Shakur. Shakur's fourth album was called "All Eyez on Me."

[maureen]

The film has a couple of elements carried over from the 'Penguins of Madagascar' TV series: Rico regurgitates as often as he does in 'The Penguins of Madagascar', and King Julien ends up being the unlikely hero, as he was in many of the episodes of 'The Penguins of Madagascar'.

[claude]

Ben Stiller (Alex), Chris Rock (Marty), Jada Pinkett Smith (Gloria), David Schwimmer (Melman), Sacha Baron Cohen (King Julien), Andy Richter (Mort), Cedric the Entertainer (Maurice), Tom McGrath (Skipper), Chris Miller (Kowasaki), Christopher Knights (Private), Conrad Vernon (Mason), and Frank Welker (Animal Vocals) have appeared in all three films of the Madagascar franchise.

[brent]

DreamWorks Animation's 4th highest grossing film, their highest grossing film outside of the Shrek franchise, and their only non-Shrek movie to make over $700 million worldwide.

[jesus]

When the monkeys are dressed up they go by the name 'King of Versailles'; the actual Kings of France who lived in Versailles palace were Louis' XIV, XV, and XVI, the last being infamously married to Marie Antoinette. The license plate of the penguins' car reads EAT CAKE, a quote often attributed to Antoinette.

[chris]

According to the director's commentary DuBois's french men were going to have French accents in this film but unfortunately all of their dialogue was cut from the final film possibly for time.

[ruby]

The voice for King Julien is different than his singing voice which was done by Danny Jacobs.

[ronnie]

This is the first DreamWorks Animation film since Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) to be shown in a 1:85:1 aspect ratio.

[lena]

Is the only Madagascar film where the voice of one of the humans is listed in the Casting Call of Major Cast Members outside the Credit Crawl, being Frances McDormand (Captain DuBois).

[kenneth]

All the French animal control officers' shipping boxes are labelled with food items, except the word "French" is replaced with "Freedom". In 2003, a movement to replace French with Freedom was started as a retaliation for not having French support to invade Iraq.

[tom]

At least two elements from the first 2 Madagascar films do not show up in this movie: Nana (the crazy old lady who beat up Alex several times) and the The Twilight Zone (1959) spoofs.

[veronica]

Martin Short's 2nd DreamWorks Animation film, after The Prince of Egypt (1998).

[jamie]

The only film of the franchise to not have any characters voiced by Fred Tatasciore and David P. Smith in the first film Tatasciore voiced most of the fossas and Smith voiced a spider and one of the lemurs whilst in the second film Tatasciore voiced an elephant and Teetsi as well as a poacher at the start of the film and Smith voiced Bobby the Dik Dik.

[liam]

Mason the chimpanzee is voiced by Conrad Vernon, one of the directors.

[ava]

Carrie Fisher and Bette Midler were both considered for the role of Captain Chantel Dubois before Frances McDormand was cast.

[kenneth]

Alex weighs 552 pounds (250 kilograms).