February 21 - Madagascar

Today’s movie is a comedy with a scene that happens on February 21. watch it tonight and enjoy.

MADAGASCAR   

February 21, 2003 [00:24 to 20:03] is the tenth birthday of Marty, a zebra in New York’s Central Park zoo. He develops a mid-life crisis and wants to escape to the wilds of Connecticut. His friends Alex the lion, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo follow Marty to Grand Central Station where they are all captured. The zoo decides to ship them to a wildlife preserve in Kenya. However, a group of psychotic penguins take over the ship so they can go to Antarctica. This results in the four friends being knocked over board in their boxes and washing ashore. They eventually learn they are on the island of Madagascar from a group of lemurs who come to accept them after Alex drives off the fossa who usually eat the lemurs. After Alex starts to revert to his naturally carnivorous traits, he is banished to the far side of the island. The ship returns, steered by the penguins and by now Marty wants to return to the Big Apple. Alex at first is resistant, fearing he might attack his friends again, but overcomes his instincts enough to rescue them when they are captured by the fossa. The penguins catch enough fish for Alex to eat since the ship can’t set sail for New York, as it is out of fuel.

Date given in film at 3:23; 20:11 and at http://www.basketball-reference.com/teams/NYK/2003_games.html

Director - Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath

Producer - Mireille Soria

Screenplay - Mark Burton, Billy Frolick, Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath

Released – May 25, 2005

Runtime – 1 hour 26 minutes

Voice Cast –

Ben Stiller as Alex, a lion

Chris Rock as Marty, a zebra

David Schwimmer as Melman, a giraffe

Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria, a hippopotamus

Sacha Baron Cohen as King Julien, king of the lemurs

Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice, an aye-aye and King Julien's royal advisor.

Andy Richter as Mort, a Goodman's mouse lemur

Tom McGrath as Skipper, the leader of penguins

Chris Miller as Kowalski, a penguin and Skipper's right hand

Jeffrey Katzenberg as Rico, a smart and silent penguin

Christopher Knights as Private, an eager, lowly penguin

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015