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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

2008 film by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa is a 2008 American animated comedy film directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath and written by Etan Cohen, Darnell and McGrath. The second installment in the Madagascar film series, following the 2005 film, it was produced by DreamWorks Animation SKG and Pacific Data Images. Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, and Andy Richter reprise their roles from the first film, joined by new cast members Bernie Mac, Alec Baldwin, Sherri Shepherd, and will.i.am. In the film, the main characters, a party of animals from the Central Park Zoo whose adventures have taken them to Madagascar find themselves in the East African savannas, where they meet others of their species and where Alex the lion reunites with his parents.

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“Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” enters the record as 2008 film by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Madagascar, Escape and Africa can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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