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"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" takes off as the memorable¹ characters from the first film are finally leaving Madagascar to return to their home, the Central Park Zoo. (The movie might have been more accurately² titled "Escape From Madagascar With an Unscheduled Stopover in Central Africa.")

Departing in a rickety plane refurbished by a team of resourceful penguins³, with the lemur King Julien and his factotum⁴ Maurice along for the ride, the group doesn't get far until the conveyance⁵ plummets⁶ to the ground.

It turns out that the menagerie has landed in the middle of continental⁷ Africa, where, as a harrowing prologue⁸ explains, Alex was born and cub-napped several years ago. And it's at this point that "Escape 2 Africa's" myriad⁹ storylines seem to multiply like so many wildebeests, with Alex reuniting with his parents, Marty discovering the comforts and challenges of fitting in with the herd¹⁰, the hypochondriac Melman becoming a tribal¹¹ healer and facing his own possibly impending¹² death, and Gloria finding love with a seductive hippo-on-the-make named Moto Moto, voiced by Black Eyed Peas singer Will.I.Am.

Eventually, all the busy plot lines meet up, converging¹³ in a way that may not get points for elegance¹⁴ but that accomplishes the job at hand: setting up the sequel, which was reportedly underway when this movie began filming.

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