After following Skipper the penguin's advice to break out of New York's Central Park Zoo, Marty, the bored and dejected zebra, along with his companions--Alex, the content lion; Melman, the skittish giraffe, and Gloria, the resolute hippo--find themselves in a completely different environment. Marooned on the lush and exotic Madagascar on Marty's tenth birthday celebration, the pampered visitors must run, jump, roar, and hide, to stand a chance of surviving in the wild. Will the good friends ever return home?
—Nick Riganas