Madagascar (2005 film)

Madagascar is a 2005 animated film about four Central Park Zoo animals who have spent their lives in blissful captivity and are unexpectedly shipped back to Africa, becoming shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar. It was followed by Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, as well as a spin-off focused on the penguins, Penguins of Madagascar.

Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath. Written by Mark Burton, Billy Frolick, Eric Darnell, and Tom McGrath.

Someone's got a zoo loose.Taglines

Dialogue

Alex: Surprise!

Marty: AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH! Alex, do not interrupt me when I'm daydreaming. If a zebra's in the zone, leave him alone.

Mason: Phil! Wake up, you filthy monkey.

[A quartet of penguins dig up to the section of a zebra named Marty. One penguin, seemingly the leader, talks to him]

Skipper: You, Quadruped! Sprechen sie Englisch?

Marty: I sprechen.

Skipper: What continent is this?

Marty: Manhattan.

Skipper: Hoover Dam! We're still in New York. Abort! Dive! Dive! Dive!

Marty: Hey, hey, you in the tux! Wait a minute! What are you guys doing?

Private: We're digging to Antarctica. [Skipper slaps him]

Marty: Ant-who-tica?

Skipper: Can you keep a secret, my monochromatic friend? [Marty looks around before nodding] Do you ever see any penguins walking free around New York City? [Marty shakes his head "no"] Of course not. We don't belong here, it's just not natural. This is all some kind of whacked-out conspiracy. We're going to the wide open spaces of Antarctica. To the wild.

Melman: [about the wild; coughs] It's unsanitary.

Marty: The penguins are going, so why can't I?

Alex: The penguins are psychotic.

Marty: Come on. Just imagine going back to nature. Back to your roots, clean air, wide open spaces!

Gloria: Well, I hear they have wide-open spaces in Connecticut.

Marty: Connecticut?

Melman: Yeah. What you got to do is, you got to go over to Grand Central. Then you got to take the Metro-North train... north?

Marty: So one could take the train? Just hypothetically.

Alex: This is a highly refined type of food thing that you do not find in the wild.

Marty: You ever thought there might be more to life than steak, Alex?

Alex: [stares at his steak] He didn't mean that, baby. No-no-no.

Marty: Doesn't it bother you guys that you don't know anything about life outside this zoo?

Melman: Nuh-uh. Nope.

Gloria: Mm-mm.

Alex: Well, I mean, come on. That's just one subject. You got a little, uh, schmutz right there on your... [eats his steak]

Alex: Ah, what a day. I mean, just really, really, I mean, I tell you, it just doesn't get any better than this, you know? [short pause, Alex sees a star] Ooh! It just did. Even the star's out. Not going to find a star like that in the wild.

Marty: Helicopter.

[A star, which turns out to be a helicopter, flies away.]

Alex: Marty. Buddy. Listen. Everybody has days when they think the grass might be greener somewhere else.

Alex: [sleeping talking] Come on now, baby. My little filet. My little filet mignon with a little fat around the edges. I like that. I like a little fat on my steak. My sweet, juicy steak. You are a rare delicacy.

Melman: Alex. Alex. Alex? Alex. Alex!

Alex: [wakes up] Huh? What?

Melman: You suck your thumb?

Alex: [sighs] What is it, Melman?

Melman: Okay, okay. Ah! You know how I have that bladder infection and I have to get up every two hours? Well, I got up to pee, um, and I looked over at Marty's pen, which, you know, I usually don't do. I don't know why, but I did. And this time I looked over and...

Alex: What, Melman? What's going on?

Melman: It's Marty. He's gone.

Alex: Gone? [hits his head] What do you mean "gone"?

Melman: How long has he been working on this? [looks into the hole the penguins dug] Marty? Marty?!

Gloria: [enters for the scene] He wouldn't fit down there.

Alex: [searches for the hay pile] Marty? Marty! Marty!

Gloria: This doesn't make any sense. Where would he go?

Alex: [horrified; after short pause] Connecticut!

Gloria: He wouldn't.

Melman: Oh, no! What... What are we going to do? We got to... We gotta... I mean, we gotta... We gotta... We got to call somebody!

[Alex gasps, runs for the pay phone and dials 911.]

Alex: Hello?! Get me Missing Animals! And hurry! We've got a lost zebra probably on the way to Connecticut by now, and we're gonna need...!

[Cut to 911 dispatch office; the operator only hears Alex roaring on speaker.]

Operator: [takes off headset in confusion] Hello? [cut to zoo; on speaker] Hello?

Alex: Wait a second. We can't call the people.

Operator: What the...?

Alex: [hangs up the payphone, rips it out and throws it away] They'll be really mad. It'll get Marty transferred for good. You don't bite the hand that feeds you.

Gloria: Mm-hmm. I know that's right.

Alex: We got to go after him.

Melman: Go after him?

Alex: He's not thinking straight. We got to stop him from making for the biggest mistake of his life. He's probably out there lost and cold, confused. [sighs; sadly] Poor little guy.

[Melman, Alex, and Gloria have just escaped the zoo. Melman helps Alex to hang his neck and Alex falls down to land. Gloria bashes the outside wall from the zoo.]

Gloria: Melman, Come on.

Melman: One of us should wait here in case he comes back.

Gloria: Not now. This is an intervention. We all got to go.

Alex: What's the fastest way to Grand Central?

Melman: You should take Lexington.

Gloria: Melman!

Melman: Okay. "We." We should take Lexington.

Alex: What about Park?

Melman: No, Park goes two ways. You can't time the lights.

Mason: [Mason and Phil have just escaped the zoo] I heard Tom Wolfe's speaking at Lincoln Center. [Phil signs frantically] Well, of course we're going to throw poo at him!

Alex: Move aside. We have an emergency here. This is an emergency situation. Hey, hey. Just chill out. It's not that big of an emergency. [Nana hits him with her bag]

Nana: Upstairs, downstairs! [kicks Alex's crotch, then sprays in his eyes] How do you like that?

Alex: Yaaagh!

Nana: Yah!!

Alex: Ooh! Lady! What is wrong with you?! [Nana hits him twice] Ow! Get a grip on yourselves, people.

Nana: You're a bad kitty.

Announcer in the Grand Central: The next train to Connecticut has been departed.

Marty: Dagnabbit! I missed an express. Looks like I'm going to have to take the Stamford local.

Alex: I got him! I've got him!

Gloria: He's got him!

Melman: He's got him! He's got him! He's got... Aaagh!

Nana: I got something for you!

Alex: You're fine? Oh, he's fine. Oh, great. You hear that? Marty's fine. That's good to know. Because I was wondering... [snaps] HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO US, MARTY!? I THOUGHT WE WERE YOUR FRIENDS!

Marty: What's the big deal? I was coming back in the morning!

Alex: Don't you ever do this again. Do you hear me?

Gloria: Do you hear him?

Melman: Guys, we're running out of time!

Gloria: Oh, Melman, you broke their clock?

Alex: ...do this again! Don't you ever, ever do this again!

Gloria: [pulling the clock out of Melman's head] Come here. [she saws cops]

Skipper: [getting busted by cops] We've been ratted out, boys.

[The police officers, the other federal forces, firefighters, drummer and Nana surrounding Alex and the gang.]

Skipper: Cute and cuddly, boys. Cute and cuddly.

Mason: [to Phil, as they are surrounded by cops] If you have any poo, fling it now.

[The police officers and the other federal forces confront Alex and the gang.]

Marty: [whispers] It's the man. Good evening, officers.

Alex: [whispering] No. No. No. You don't talk now, okay? You're not good with "putting words together and they're coming out good" thing. You keep it "shh". [to the people] Hey! How you doing? You know what? Everything's cool. We just had a little situation here. Little internal situation. My friend went a little crazy. Happens to everybody. The city gets to us all. Went a little cuckoo in the head.

Marty: Hey. Don't be calling me cuckoo in the head.

Alex: Just shush! I will handle this. [Nana walks up and kicks him right in the groin] Oh!

Nana: I got him!

Police Officers: [run into view and carry Nana away jail] Go, go, go! Right here, please.

Alex: Would you give a guy a break?

News Reporter: Last night's dramatic incident in Grand Central is an example of what animal rights wackos have been shouting for years: The animals clearly don't belong in captivity. Now they are to be sent back to their natural habitat, where they will live their lives in the freedom they so clearly desire.

Alex: Oooh... Oh, my head. [bumps his head on the top of his crate] Oh! Ah! What the...? Wait. Where? What? I'm in the box! Oh no. No, no! Not the box. Oh, they can't transfer me. Not me! Oh. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. Darkness creeping in. Can't breathe, can't breathe. Walls closing in around me. So alone. So alone. Oh.

Marty: Alex? Alex, hey! Are you there?

Alex: Marty?

Marty: Yeah. Talk to me, buddy.

Alex: Oh, Marty. You're here.

Marty: What's going on? Are you okay?

Alex: This doesn't look good, Marty.

Gloria: Alex, Marty, is that you?

Marty: Gloria!

Alex: You're here, too.

Marty: I am loving the sound of your voice.

Gloria: What is going on?

Alex: We're all in crates.

Gloria: Uh, no! What, um...

Melman: Oooh, sleeping just knocks me out.

Gloria: Melman.

Alex: Melman.

Marty: Is that Melman?

Gloria: Are you okay?

Melman: Yeah. No, I’m fine. I often doze off while I'm getting an MRI.

Alex: Melman, you're not getting an MRI.

Melman: CAT scan?

Alex: No. No CAT scan. It's a transfer. It's a zoo transfer!

Melman: Zoo transfer?! Oh, no. No, no. I can't be transferred. I have an appointment with Dr. Goldberg at 5:00.

Gloria: Melman. Don't panic!

Melman: There are prescriptions that have to be filled.

Gloria: Melman! Calm down now, Melman. Relax. Don't panic!

Melman: No other zoo can afford my medical care...

Marty: Calm down, Melman.

Melman: ...and I am not going HMO!

Marty: Easy, Melman. It's going to be okay. We are going to be o-kiz-ay.

Alex: No, Marty. We're not gonna be o-kiz-ay. Now, because of you, we're ruined!

Marty: Because of me? I-I fail to see how this is my fault.

Gloria: You're kidding, right, Marty?

Alex: You. You ticked off the people. You bit the hand, Marty. You bit the hand. [mimicking Marty] "I don't know who I am! I don't know who I am. I got to go find myself in the wild!"

Marty: Hey, hey.

Alex: Oh, please.

Marty: I did not ask you to come after me, did I?

Melman: He does have a point.

Alex: What?

Melman: I did say we should stay for the zoo, but you guys...

Alex: Melman, just shut it. You're the one who suggested this whole idea to him for the first place.

Gloria: Alex, leave Melman out of this, please.

Melman: Thank you, Gloria. Besides, Alex, that's not my fault that we were transferred.

Gloria: Melman, shut it. Does anybody feel nauseous?

Melman: I feel nauseous.

Alex: Melman, you always feel nauseous.

[The penguins are being transferred; Kowalski is looking for the label on their crate.]

Skipper: Progress report.

Kowalski: It's an older code, Skipper. I can't make it out.

[Skipper notices up the chimps for the crate next to them]

Skipper: You, higher mammal. Can you read?

Mason: No, Phil can read though. Phil?

[Phil appears; Kowalski gestures towards at the label; Phil starts using sign language]

Mason: Hm. Ship to Kenya... Wildlife Preserve... Africa!

Skipper: Africa? That ain't going to fly. Rico!

[Rico vomits up a paper clip and uses it to unpick from the lock on their crate]

Alex: I was the star in the greatest city on Earth! A king, loved by my people! And you've ruined everything!

Marty: "Loved"? If the people loved you, it's only because they didn't know the real you!

Gloria: Don't make me come up there, I'll get the whuppin' on both of y'all.

[Alex and Marty seem overjoyed to be reunited; they are running towards each other on the beach in slow motion with arms outstretched and "Chariots of Fire" playing; their voices are slow and toned to a low key]

Alex: Marty!

Marty: Alex!

Alex: Marty!

Marty: Al!

Alex: [firmly] Marty!

Marty: [confused] Alex?

Alex: [angrily] MARTY!!!

Marty: [turns to run] Oh, sugar honey iced tea!

Alex: [angrily] Martin!!

Marty: Hey! Hold up!

Alex: I'm going to kill you!

Marty: Hold up! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!

Alex: You come here! Don't run away from me!

Marty: Whoa, wait! Wait, wait! Calm down! Calm down!

Gloria: Marty!

Alex: If you keep running, I'm going to just kill you more!

Melman: Marty!

Gloria: Oh, look at us! We're all here together. Safe and sound.

Melman: Yeah, here we are. Where exactly is "here"?

[Everyone is surprised as they turn while they see many trees of Madagascar, but Melman knows it's...]

Melman: San Diego.

Gloria: San Diego?

Melman: White sandy beaches, cleverly simulated natural environment, wide-open enclosures. I'm telling you, this could be the San Diego Zoo. Complete with fake rocks. [tapping a rock] Wow, that looks real.

Alex: San Diego? What could be worse than San Diego?

Marty: I don't know. This place is crackalackin'! Oh, I could hang here. I could hang here.

Alex: [angrily] I'M GONNA KILL YOU, MARTY!

Marty: [getting chased by Alex] Take it easy!

Alex: [angrily] I'm gonna strangle you!

Marty: [getting chased by Alex] Calm down.

Alex: [angrily] Then bury you! Then dig you up and clone you! Then I'm gonna kill all your clones!

Marty: [getting chased by Alex] 20-second timeout.

Alex: And then, I'm never talking to you again!!

Gloria: [grabs Alex] STOP IT!! Now, look. We're just going to find the people, get checked in and have this mess straightened out.

Alex: Oh, great. This is just great. San Diego. Now I'll have to compete with Shamu and his smug little grin. I can't top that. Can't top it. I'm ruined! I'm done. I'm out of the business. It's your fault, Marty! You've ruined me.

Marty: Come on, Alex. Do you honestly think I intended all of this to happen? You want me to say that I'm sorry? Is that what you want? OK, I'm...

Alex: Shh!

Marty: He just shushed me.

Gloria: Marty, you've got to be just a little...

Alex: Shush!

Gloria: ...bit more und-- Don't you shush me!

Alex: Do you hear that? Don't you hear that?

Gloria: What kind of zoo is this?

Melman: I just saw 26 blatant health code violations.

Marty: I'm loving San Diego. This place is off the chizain.

Melman: 27!

Alex: Enough! Enough with the stick.

Melman: She got it. I think she got it. I think she got it.

Alex: Is it still on me? Oh, I hate spiders.

Gloria: It's okay. It's gone.

Mort: They are savages. Tonight we die. [grabs Julien's leg]

King Julien: The feet. I told you... I told you to... I told every... Didn't I tell you about the feet.

Maurice: He did tell you about the feet.

Mort: Uh-uh.

King Julien: Wait. I have a plan.

Maurice: Really?

King Julien: I have devised a cunning test to see whether these are savages killers.

[After Julien kicks Mort gets sent out from hiding by, he sees Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman and scared grabs his tail in fear.]

Marty: Hi there.

Alex: [cuts off Marty, clears throat; whispers] You let me handle. Alex handles it. Marty does nothing. [walks over to a scared Mort and zooms in his face; kindly] Hi there! [Mort looks at Alex's teeth and starts crying] Oh, jeez. Oh! Sorry.

Melman: Oh, Alex, what did you do?

Alex: No, no, no. Stop. Stop. It's okay, it's okay. I'm just a silly... just a silly lion. [surprised as Mort cries even louder] Oh, jeez!

Marty: Aw, Alex.

Gloria: [walks to Mort] Oh, you poor little baby. Did that big mean lion scare you?

Mort: Mm-hmm.

Gloria: He did? He's a big, bad old puddy tat, isn't he? [She picks Mort up] Come on. Mama'll hold you. Aww, look at you.

Melman: [as Gloria is cuddling Mort] They are so cute from a reasonable distance.

Gloria: Aren't you the sweetest little thing. Makes me want to dye it in coffee.

King Julien: [watching Gloria cuddle Mort] They are just a bunch of pansies.

Maurice: I don't know, Julien. [referring to Alex] There's something about that guy with the crazy hair-do that I find suspicious.

King Julien: Nonsense, Maurice. Come on, everybody! Let's go and meet the pansies!

[all lemurs cheering]

Melman: Yep, squirrel.

King Julien: We thank you with enormous gratitude for scaring away the Fossa.

Gloria: The whossa?

King Julien: The Fossa. They're always annoying us by trespassing, interrupting our parties, and ripping our limbs off...

Alex: Yeah, sounds great. Look, we're just, uh, we’re just trying to find out where the people are, so if you could, uh--

Maurice: [to Alex] Oh my, what big teeth you have. Man. He-hey.

King Julien: Shame on you, Maurice. Can you not see that you have insulted the freak? [to Alex] You must tell me, who the heck are you?

Alex : I'm Alex. The Alex and this is Gloria, Marty, and Melman.

Maurice: And where exactly are you giants from, hmm?

Alex: We're from New York, and uh...

[King Julien makes a "T" with his hands, interrupting Alex, then turns to the crowd of lemurs.]

King Julien: All hail the New York Giants!

Lemurs: [cheer] New York Giants!

Alex: Is there some sort of inbreeding program? [to Marty, Melman, and Gloria] Well, I say we just got to ask these bozos where the people are.

Julien: Excuse me? We bozos have the people, of course!

Alex: Wow!

Melman: Hey! The bozos have the people!

Alex: Oh, well, great. Good. Phew.

King Julien: They're up there. [points to some human skeletons hanging from parachutes snagged on the branches of a large tree] Don't you love the people? Not a very lively bunch, though.

Alex : Oh, wow. So do you have any live people?

King Julien: Um... No. Only dead ones.

Maurice: Man, if we had a lot of live people, it wouldn't be called "the wild". Would it? [laughs]

Marty: The wild?

Alex: Hold on a second there, fuzz bucket. You mean, like, uh, like the "live-in-a-mud-hut, wipe-yourself-with-a-leaf" type wild?

King Julien: Who wipes? Ha ha!

Gloria: Oy vey.

King Julien: Oy vey!

Maurice: Oy vey, everybody!

Lemurs: Oy vey!

Alex: Could you excuse me for a moment? [later, he's running back to the beach, Gloria chases after him] Get me out of here! We got to get out of here!

Gloria: Alex!

Alex: Heeelp!!!!!

Gloria: [holds Alex back] What are you doing?!

Alex: I'm swimming back to New York!

Marty: Yeah, baby! We are in the wild!

Alex: I know my chances are slim. But I have to try!

Gloria: Alex You can't swim!

Marty: Oh, yeah!

Alex: I said my chances are slim!

Melman: [running in panic with leaves covering] AAAAGHH!!!! Nature! It's all over me! Get it off! I can't see! I can't see! [Gloria steps on vine cord, pulling the leaves off him] I can see! [buries his head in beach ground, panicked]

Gloria: [while holding Alex by his throat] Okay, look. There has obviously just been a little mistake. I'm sure the people didn't dump us here on purpose. As soon as they realize what happened, they'll come looking for us, right?

Melman: [with head buried; while Marty is singing "Born Free"] Yeah, right.

Gloria: You know something? I bet they're already on their way. [she drops Alex, which he inhales for breath]

[ship horn sound]

Skipper: Well, boys. It's gonna be ice-cold sushi for breakfast. [he and Private take high five] Rico.

Marty: Hey! A latrine. Nice work, Melman. Outdoor plumbing.

Alex: No, it's not a latrine. It's a grave. You sent Melman to his grave. Are you happy?

Marty: Aw, come on. This isn't the end. This is a whole new beginning. This could be the best that's happened to us.

Alex: How's the liberty fire goin', Melman?

Melman: Great! Idiot...

Alex: I heard that!

Melman: Why can't we just borrow some of Marty's fire?

Alex: That's wildfire! We're not using wildfire on Lady Liberty! NOW RUB, MELMAN!

Melman: [groans in frustration] I've been doing... I can't, I can't, I can't do it! I Ju— I CAN'T DO IT! [slams the planks down...and they suddenly ignite] Fire! Fire! [Alex and Gloria were surprised by this] FIRE! FIIIIIIRE!!! [laughs...then notices the burning planks are still attached to his hooves] Ah, oh my... Ow! Ooh, FIRE! AAAAAAAAH!

Alex: NOT YET! NO, NO! NO!

Melman: FIRE! AAAAH!!

[Melman panics and accidentally lights Alex's beacon on fire; then trips and the planks extinguish in the sand]

Gloria: JUMP! Alex, jump! [Alex does so] Don't worry. Cats always land on their- [Alex falls flat on his face after jumping off the burning rescue beacon] face? What kind of cat are you?

Alex: [after Melman burned the rescue beacon in panic] YOU MANIAC!!! YOU BURNED IT UP!!! DARN YOU!!! DARN YOU ALL TO HECK!!!

Melman: [callously] Can we go to the fun side now?

King Julien: Yes, Willie?

Willie the lemur: I like them.

Mort: I like them. I like them! Before I even met them I liked them!

King Julien: Yes, yes! We get it...

Mort: You hate them compared to how much I like them...

Julien: Oh, shut up! You're so annoying. [Pauses out of the park]

Mort: [flattered] Hee-hee!

King Julien: Now, for as long as we can remember, we have been attacked and eaten by the dreaded fossa.

Lemur 1: The fossa! The fossa are attacking! [screams and hurls himself out a window; General panic ensues]

Lemur 2: [holds up a book titled "To Serve Lemur"] It's a cookbook. It's a cookbook!

Julien: Please, Maurice.

Maurice: Shh.... Quiet! Come on, you all. They're not attacking us this very instant.

King Julien: So, my genius plan is this. We will make the New York Giants our friends and keep them close.

Marty: Yo, Al. Melman and Gloria are over there having a good time. There's room on the fun side for one more.

Alex: No, thanks.

Marty: Look, I've been thinking. Maybe if you gave this place a chance, I don't know, you might even enjoy yourself.

Alex: Marty, I'm tired. I'm hungry. I just want to go home.

Marty: Could you just give it a chance? Think about it. It really isn't the fun side without you. [leaves]

[From the trees, Julien and Maurice looked below at the sleeping Alex with Marty, Melman and Gloria on the beach.]

King Julien: You see, Maurice, Mr. Alex was grooming his friend. He is clearly a tender, loving thing. How can you have the heebie-jeebies for Mr. Alex? Look at him. He's so cute and plushy.

Maurice: I don't think he was grooming him, Julien. Look more like he was tasting him to me.

King Julien: Suit yourself, no matter. I don't care. Soon we will put my excellent plan to action. All we have to do is wait until they are deep in their sleep... [a long pause] HOW LONG IS THIS GOING TO TAKE?!

[Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman thought there are lemurs, but they see nothing. So they have to go to sleep again.]

Private: [on finally arriving at Antarctica] Well, this sucks!

Marty: AAAAAHHH!! [Everyone became shocked except Mort who happily claps] Excuse me. You're biting my butt!

Alex: [long pauses; muffled] No, I'm not.

Marty: Yes, you are. [Alex spits and licks paws in the tongue]

Gloria: Alex, what did you just do?

Marty: You just bit me on the butt.

Alex: No, I didn't. Did I?

Melman: You kind of did.

Marty: He just bit me on the butt! What the heck is wrong with you?!

Alex: [stutters] I... Oh. Uh...

Marty: Why did you bite me?

Maurice: Man, it's because you are his dinner.

Melman: What?!

Gloria: Excuse me?

Melman: That's dumb.

King Julien: Come, come, Maurice. What is a simple bite on the buttocks among friends? [shakes his tail at Maurice] Here, gimme a nibble.

Maurice: [pushes King Julien] The party is over, Julien. Your brilliant plan has failed.

Marty: What are you talking about?

Maurice: Your friend here is what we call a deluxe hunting and eating machine, and he eats steak... which is you.

Gloria: Get out of here.

King Julien: Okey dokey, Maurice. I admit it. The plan failed. All is lost! We are all doomed! The Foosas will come back and gobble us with their mouths, because! We are all steak.

Mort: I'm steak! Me-me-me-me-me!

Maurice: Mr. Alex cannot stay here. He belongs with his own kind [turned into steak] on the fossa side of the island.

King Julien: [turned into steak] By the power vested in me, by the law of the jungle, blah, blah, blah, blah. Be gone!

Marty: [turned into steak] What? Come on, do I look like a steak to you?

Alex: Yeah!

Marty: See, I told you I don't look like a... Wait. What you say?

Alex: Oh, yeah! [roars ferociously]

Mort: [frightened] He's going savage.

King Julien: Run for your lives. [Everyone runs away. Alex roars wildly, getting ready to devour them all.]

Gloria: Marty, run!

Marty: Aah!!

[The Fanfare of National Geographic plays as Alex is preparing to eat Marty once again, but Maurice throws a coconut to stop Alex and paralyze him!]

King Julien: A bullseye. Excellent shot, Maurice.

Maurice: Thank you.

[Alex lifted up his head and Marty in steak form now turns to normal, while running away]

Alex: Marty? I'm so sorry, Marty. What is wrong with me?! Ow! Oh, no. What I've done, It's true, I'm a monster. I gotta get out of here. [runs away]

Skipper: Now, this is more like it.

Gloria: You?! Oh, ma... Where are the people?!

Skipper: We killed them and ate their livers. [Gloria looks horrified] Gotcha, didn't I? Just kidding, doll, the people are fine. They're on a slow boat to China. Hang on, I know you two. Where's that psychotic lion, and our monochromatic friend?

Melman: [he and Gloria looks back to see Marty missing] Marty? He's ri... Where'd he go? I thought he was right behind us.

Gloria: [groans in frustration] He went back for Alex? He's gonna get himself killed!

Skipper: Well, boys, our monochromatic friend's in danger. Looks like we have a job to do. [Private brings out a notebook and a red crayon] Captain's log: Embarking into hostile environment. Kowalski, we'll need to win the hearts and the minds of the natives. Rico, we'll need special tactical equipment. We're going to face extreme peril. Private probably won't survive. [a red crayon snaps, Private looks horrified]

[Alex, fearing that he will continue injuring his friends, retreats to foosa territory in isolation. Marty searches for him, excited]

Marty: Alex! Alex.

Alex: Marty?

Marty: Snap out of it, Alex. The boat came back. We can get out of here. We can go back to civilization, and everything will be just like it used to be.

Alex: Stay back. Please. I'm a monster.

Marty: Alex, you're no monster. You're my friend. We're a team. You and me, remember?

[Alex quickly tries to attack Marty; Alex realizes his action and retreats]

Alex: I don't want to hurt you.

[?]

Marty: Alex. I ain't leaving without you.

[?]

Marty: Alex? I'm thinking of a song. It's a wonderful song. I'm sure you're familiar with it. ♪ Start spreadin' the news I'm leaving today We are a great big part of it ♪ Come on, you know the words. Two little words. Please don't make me sing this by myself. You really don't want to hear me sing this by myself.

[The fossa appear from above the rocks]

Marty: Uh, Alex? Could you come out here for a minute? Hey, Alex, a l-l-little help. AAH!!! HELP ME!!! ALEX!! HEEEELLLPPP!!!!!!! [Alex began to snap out of it of his rage, and The Fossas started to chase Marty] Help me!! Anybody, help me!! Somebody!! [The Fossas are using salt on Marty's Butt] Ah! HEEEELLLPPP!!!!!!!

The Fossas: [amazed by a flare Skipper has fired] Fossa oooooh. Fossa aaaaah.

Alex: [to the Fossas] This is my territory! Understand?! I never, ever want to see you on my turf again! [with all his might, Alex roars at the fossa, causing them to be sacred and run away] Boo.

King Julien: [presents Alex with his crown] I am going to give you this lovely parting gift.

Alex: Oh, no, really. I can't take your crown.

King Julien: That's okay, I've got a better one! It's got a gecko on it! Look at him shake! Go, Stevie, go!

[last lines]

Private: Skipper, don't you think we should tell them that the boat's out of gas?

Skipper: Nah. Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave.

Taglines

Someone's got a zoo loose.
They were not born in the wild. They were shipped there.
"Kitty misses the city." (Alex tagline)
"Black, white, and out of sight." (Marty tagline)
"On vacation without medication." (Melman tagline)
"Ton on the run." (Gloria tagline)
"They're cute. They're cuddly. They're deranged." (Lemurs tagline)
"It's all some kind of whacked out conspiracy." (Skipper tagline)

Cast

Ben Stiller — Alex
Chris Rock — Marty
David Schwimmer — Melman
Jada Pinkett Smith — Gloria
Tom McGrath — Skipper
Chris Miller — Kowalski
Chris Knights — Private
Jeffrey Katzenberg — Rico
Sacha Baron Cohen — King Julien
Cedric the Entertainer — Maurice
Andy Richter — Mort
Conrad Vernon — Mason
Elisa Gabrielli — Nana

External links

Wikipedia

Wikipedia has an article about:

Madagascar (2005 film)

Madagascar quotes at the Internet Movie Database


Feature films	Main	Madagascar (2005) · 2: Escape to Africa (2008) · 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012)
	Spin-off	Penguins of Madagascar (2014)
Short films	The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper (2005) · Merry Madagascar (2009)
Television series	The Penguins of Madagascar (2008-2015) · All Hail King Julien (2014-2017) · A Little Wild (2020-2022)
Video games	Madagascar (2005) · Madagascar 2 (2008) · Madagascar 3 (2012) · Penguins of Madagascar (2014)

Dialogue

Taglines

Cast

See also

External links