Last updated on 2012-06-07, by Tony

A General Review on the Evolution of Madagascar Movies

May 2012 witnessed the great success of movies like The Avengers and Men in Black III. So far, Snow White and Huntsman has made a good start for June 2012 by topping the ranking list. Though people are expecting Snow White and Huntsman to hold its position this week, it seems to be a quite difficult task for a movie released in June.

Usually producers tend to release their movies in June or July because they may gain more box office recipients from summer movie market. Therefore, the fiercest competition of movies occurs in those two months. This week, Snow White and Huntsman will face the threats from Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted , which will be released on June 8.

As an expected summer movie, Madagascar 3 draws people’s attention due to the great success of it predecessors. Anyway, after years’ departure, the lovely lion, zebra, giraffe and hippo finally return. This post will show you a general review on the evolution of Madagascar movies.

1. Madagascar 1

In Madagascar 1, while Alex, Melman and Gloria are enjoying their lives in the zoo, Marty just wants to go back to the wild. After other three friends find Marty has escaped, they decide to get out of the zoo to find him back. When they reunite again, they find themselves in Madagascar. Therefore, those four friends need to fight for their lives in the wild for the first time.

Released in 2005, Madagascar 1 had helped DreamWorks to gain over 500 million dollars. Besides excellent plot and cute characters, Madagascar 1 also impressed us with the friendship showed in the movie. In the movie, when Alex is extremely hungry, he chooses to leave the team in case he may hurt his friends.

2. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa

In Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, the four friends have to land on Africa because something goes wrong with their airplane. Unlike Madagascar, Africa is a place full of beasts and dangers. Here Alex, Melman, Marty and Gloria find the friends of their own kind respectively. After suffering a period of confusion, they finally find out the lives they want.

With thrilling adventure and wonderful story, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa had gotten over 600 million dollars in box office. Besides friendship, you will be impressed by the family relationship and love in the movie. In order to be admitted by his parents, Alex does whatever he can. After telling his feelings to Gloria, Melman finally gets together with Gloria.

3. Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted

After four-year departure, Madagascar movie finally returns with Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. As a movie about to be released on June 8, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted not only needs to compete with Snow White and Huntsman but also Prometheus. However, with the good performance of its predecessors, Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted won’t disappoint those fans.

After travelling to Madagascar and Africa, the four friends will take you to have a trip in Europe in Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted. In the movie, In order to return to New York, the four friends decide to join in a traveling circus. However, before that they need to find the penguins and Julia. Of course, they will bring many troubles to the circus.

Those are the development of Madagascar trilogy. As the last member of Madagascar trilogy, Madagascar 3 is also the most promising one to gain best box office performance. Anyway, for the former two you can convert the DVDs for your portable devices via DVD Ripper. For Madagascar 3, you can either download related clips from YouTube or watch them in the cinema on June 8.