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Madagascar: Kung Fu Moves is a 2015 American computer-animated crossover comedy adventure crossover film produced by Blue Sky Studios and DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. It is the first crossover installment of the Madagascar series and the sequel to Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012). The film will be directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Kirk Wise and Conrad Vernon. The Stars of Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights and Conrad Vernon, reprise their roles from the previous films. Penny Stiller, Jenny Slate, Marco Brander, Steve Carell, Jack Black, Seth Rogen, James Hong and Jackie Chan joined by Ensemble animals voice cast.
A sequel, Madagascar: Dawn of the Metro, is released in 2018, Originally but was later put on an indefinite hold due to DreamWorks Animation's 2015 restructuring.[1][2] The film won the Best Animated Feature at the Movie Land Fun and Excitement Awards.
Voice cast[]
- Ben Stiller as Alex, a Lion (also executive producer)
- Chris Rock as Marty, a Zebra (also executive producer)
- Penny Stiller as Hayley, a young lion (Alex's law daughter) (also executive producer)
- David Schwimmer as Melman, a giraffe (also executive producer)
- Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria, a Hippo
- Sacha Baron Cohen as King Julien XIII, a ring-tailed lemur who is the king of the lemurs in Madagascar.
- Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice, an aye-aye and King Julien's advisor
- Andy Richter as Mort, a mouse lemur
- Tom McGrath as Skipper (also director, writer, executive producer and story artist)
- Chris Miller as Kowalski (also story artist)
- Christopher Knights (also editor) as Private
- Conrad Vernon (also director, executive producer and story artist) as:
- Rico
- Mason
- Jack Black (also executive producer) as:
- Po
- Wong-Pai, (a animal)
- Kerry Shale as Narrator / (animal character)
- Kerry Shale (US) and Neil Crone (UK) as Gordon, a big blue tender engine who pulls the mainline express and is the Flying Scotsman's brother.
- Dustin Hoffman as Master Shifu, a red panda (also executive producer)
- Jenny Slate as Master Chi, a red panda
- James Hong as Mr. Ping
- Angelina Jolie as Master Tigress (also executive producer)
- Jackie Chan (also executive producer) as:
- Master Monkey
- (a animal)
- Seth Rogen as Master Mantis (also executive producer)
- David Cross as Master Crane
- Lucy Liu as Master Viper (also executive producer)
- Steve Carell (also executive producer) as:
- Kai Chiu, (a animal)
- Yang Cricket, a martial arts and training cricket
- Marco Brander as (a animal)
- Rhonda Hahn as (a animal)
- Gary John Park as , a grey tall tiger (First of Main Antagonist in the film)
- Stephen Root as Master Junjie (The film is based on Legends of Awesomeness) (Second of Main Antagonist in the film)
- Will Arnett as , a (Third of Main Antagonist in the film)
- Jessica Alba as (Fourth of Antagonist in the film)
- Ava Rodriguez as (Fifth of Main Antagonist in the film)
- Keith Williams as Master Ape (a new move character)
- Eric Jacobson as Rhino Guard / The Emperor Penguin (same name in emperor tour) (A more of new move character)
- Alexander J. Myers as Master Duck (A new move characters)
- Larry Miller as
Cameo Appearances[]
- Randall Duk Kim as Grand Master Oogway
Music[]
All music composed by Hans Zimmer except where noted.
| No. | Title | Performer | Length |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | "I Like to Move It" (Erick Morillo and Mark Quashie) | ||
| 2. | "...Baby One More Time" (Max Martin) | Miranda Cosgrove | |
| 3. | "The Final Countdown" (Joey Tempest) | Europe | |
| 4. | "Get Up Offa That Thing" (James Brown) | ||
| 5. | "This is our Get Unite" (Hans Zimmer, Jack Black, Alan Menken, Benjamin Howard, Glenn Slater and David Zippel) | Chris Rock Jack Black |
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| 6. | "We're Back (Recap song)" (Hans Zimmer, Alan Menken, Benjamin Howard, David Zippel and Glenn Slater) | Chris Rock Jada Pinkett Smith |
Trivia[]
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| A subsidiary of the studio, a division of the company. | ||||||
| Feature films | Released | |||||
| Animated films | Computer-animated films | Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001) • Robots (2005) • Monster House (2006) • Barnyard (2006) • Open Season (2006) • Surf's Up (2007) • Open Season 2 (2008) • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009) • Astro Boy (2009) • Kung Fu Dog (2010) • Despicable Me (2010) • Open Season 3 (2010) • Rango (2011) • Rio (2011) • Barnyard 2: The Scared Silly (2011) • The Adventures of Tintin (2011) • The Lorax (2012) • Hotel Transylvania (2012) • Epic (2013) • Despicable Me 2 (2013) • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2 (2013) • Rio 2 (2014) • Astro Boy 2 (2014) • The Book of Life (2014) • Kung Fu Dog 2 (2015) • Minions (2015) • Hotel Transylvania 2 (2015) • The Peanuts Movie (2015) • Open Season: Scared Silly (2016) • The Angry Birds Movie (2016) • The Secret Life of Pets (2016) • Storks (2016) • Sing (2016) • The Lego Batman Movie (2017) • Smurfs: The Lost Village (2017) • Rio 3 (2017) • Surf's Up 2: WaveMania (2017) • Despicable Me 3 (2017) • The Emoji Movie (2017) • Barnyard 3: Spies of Mania (2017) • The Lego Ninjago Movie (2017) • The Star (2017) • Ferdinand (2017) • Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018) • Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) (accolades) • Smallfoot (2018) • Kung Fu Dog 3 (2019) • Wonder Park (2019) • The Secret Life of Pets 2 (2019) • The Angry Birds Movie 2 (2019) • Star Trek (2019) • Spies in Disguise (2019) • Spanish Empire (2020) • Scoob! (2020) • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020/2021) • Astro Boy 3 (2020) • Thomas & Friends: The Movie (2020) • The Mitchells vs. the Machines (2021) • Wish Dragon (2021) • Vivo (2021) • PAW Patrol: The Movie (2021) • Rumble (2021) • Sing 2 (2021) • Hotel Transylvania: Transformania (2022) • Minions: The Rise of Gru (2022) • Paws of Fury: The Legend of Hank (2022) • DC League of Super-Pets (2022) • The Super Mario Bros. Movie (2023) • Spider Man: Arcoss Spider Verse (2023) • Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem (2023) • PAW Patrol: The Mighty Movie (2023) • Under the Boardwalk (2023) • The Tiger's Apprentice (2024) • Despicable Me 4 (2024) • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Food Monster-Verse (2025) | ||||
| Traditionally-animated films | Cats Don't Dance (2003) • Quest for Camelot (2004) • The Iron Giant (2005) | |||||
| Artwork styled animated films (Traditionally and Computer) | The Rugrats Movie (1998) • Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999) • Rugrats in Paris: The Movie (2000) • Hey Arnold!: The Movie (2002) • The Wild Thornberrys Movie (2002) • Rugrats Go Wild (2003) • The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie (2004) • Dexter's Laboratory (2006) • Dexter's Laboratory: The Movie (2007) • Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters (2007) • The Simpsons Movie (2007) • The Simpsons Movie 2 (2010) • Dexter's Laboratory 2: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2011) • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) • Dexter's Laboratory 3: The Dawn Of The Nugget (2017) • The Bob's Burgers Movie (2022) | |||||
| Ice Age | Ice Age (2002) • Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006) • Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) • Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) • Ice Age: Collision Course (2016) • The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild (2022) | |||||
| Robots Tunes | Robots Tunes (2002) • Robots Tunes 2: The Meltdown (2006) • Robots Tunes 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009) • Robots Tunes 4: Continental Drift (2012) • Robots Tunes 5: Collision Course (2016) • Robots Tunes 6: Build (2018) • Robots Tunes 7: Superhero (2019) • Robots Tunes 8: Island (2020) • Robots Tunes 9: Scoob! (2020) • The Robots Tunes Adventures of Buck Wild (2022) | |||||
| HR, Fan and Collaborative films | Horton second Who • The Loraxistates | |||||
| Live-action/animated films | Original | Hop (2011) • The Smurfs (2011) • The Smurfs 2 (2013) • Goosebumps (2015) • Peter Rabbit (2018) • Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween (2018) • Peter Rabbit 2: The Runaway (2021) • Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile (2022) • IF (2024) | ||||
| Frisatunday | Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2000) • Blue's Big Musical (2000) • Scooby-Doo (2003) • Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed (2006) • Osmosis Jones (2008) • Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins (2009) • Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster (2010) • Thomas and the Magic Railroad 2 (2014) • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water (2015) • Thomas and the Magic Railroad (2019) • The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run (2020/2021) • The CN Movie (2022) | |||||
| Produced with Aardman Animations | Arthur Christmas (2011) • The Pirates! In an Adventure with Scientists! (2012) • Thomas and the Magic Railroad 2 (2014) • Shaun the Sheep Movie (2015) (accolades) • Early Man (2018) • The JH Movie Collection Movie (2018) • The JH Movie Collection Movie 2: The Second Part (2019) • A Shaun the Sheep Movie: Farmageddon (2019) • The JH Movie Collection Movie: The Fate of the Tour (2020) • The JH Movie Collection Movie 4: Lost in Florida (2021) | |||||
| Produced with Renegade Animation | Traditionally and Computer-animated films | Cats Don't Dance (2003) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2003) • Quest for Camelot (2004) • The Iron Giant (2005) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi 2 (2006) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2007) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Escape 2 Japan (2012) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2018) • Equestria Girls of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2020) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi 4: Asia's Away (2024) | ||||
| Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi | Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2003) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2004-09) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi 2 (2006) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2007) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Escape 2 Japan (2012) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2018) • Equestria Girls of Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi (2020) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi 4: Asia's Away (2024) | |||||
| Produced with DreamWorks Animation | The Croods (2013) • Turbo (2013) • Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014) • Thomas and the Magic Railroad 2 (2014) • How to Train Your Dragon 2 (2014) • Penguins of Madagascar (2014) • Home (2015) • Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) • Trolls (2016) • The Boss Baby (2017) • Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie (2017) • DreamWorks Animation and Blue Sky Studios live-action/computer-animated film (2018) • The Legend of Disguise (2020) • DreamWorks Animation and Blue Sky Studios live-action/computer-animated film (2021; First era of Universal Pictures film) | |||||
| Pixar | Toy Story (1995) • A Bug's Life (1998) • Toy Story 2 (1999) • Monsters, Inc. (2001) • Finding Nemo (2003) • The Incredibles (2004) • Cars (2006) • Ratatouille (2007) • WALL-E (2008) • Up (2009) • Toy Story 3 (2010) • Cars 2 (2011) • Brave (2012) • Monsters University (2013) • Inside Out (2015) • The Good Dinosaur (2015) • Finding Dory (2016) • Cars 3 (2017) • Incredibles 2 (2018) • Toy Story 4 (2019) • Onward (2020) • Soul (2020) • Luca (2021) • Turning Red (2022) • Lightyear (2022) | |||||
| Walt Disney Animation Studios | Chicken Little (2005) • Meet the Robinsons (2007) • Bolt (2008) • Tangled (2010) • Wreck-It Ralph (2012) • Frozen (2013) • Big Hero 6 (2014) • Zootopia (2016) • Moana (2016) • Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018) • GoGo Tomago (2019) • Frozen 2 (2019) • Shank (2021) • Raya and the Last Dragon (2021) • Encanto (2021) | |||||
| A Lot of films | ||||||
| Upcoming films | ||||||
| Short films | Bunny (1998) • Gone Nutty (2002) • Break and Tour (2002) • Aunt Fanny's Tour of Booty (2005) • No Time for Nuts (2006) • Dexter's Laboratory: Secrets (2006-2016) • Hammy and Sonic's Boomerang Adventure (2007) • The Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi Rainbooms in a Christmas Caper (2007) • Surviving Sid (2008) • Kung Fu Dog: Secrets of the Furious (2010) • Diablos (2012) • Cosmic Scrat-tastrophe (2015) • Kung Fu Dog: Secrets of the Masters (2015) • Robots Tunes: Night of the Living Carrots (2015) • Scrat: Spaced Out (2016) • Blue Sky and DreamWorks Theatre (2018) • Kung Fu Dog: Secrets of the Scroll (2019) | |||||
| Television specials | Dexter's Laboratory: A Holiday Merry Christmas (2008) • Robots Tunes: A Merry Robotic and Mammoth Christmas (2009) • Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Merry Christmas (2013) • Robots Tunes: Mutant Pumpkins from Outer Space (2013) • Kung Fu Dog Holiday (2014) • Robots Tunes: The Great Egg-Scapade (2016) • Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade (2016) • Hi Hi Puffy AmiYumi: Madly Valentine's Day (2019) | |||||
| Associated productions | Nimona | |||||
| Franchises | Ice Age (2002–present) • Robots Tunes (2002–present) • Open Season (2006–present) • Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009–present) • Despicable Me (2010–present) • Rio (2011–present) • The Smurfs (2011–present) • Hotel Transylvania (2012-present) | |||||
| People | Chris Wedge • Carlos Saldanha • Chris Meledandri • Chris Renaud • Steve Martino • Nick Bruno and Troy Quane | |||||
| See also | 20th Century Animation • Fox Animation Studios • Pixar • Walt Disney Animation Studios • Industrial Light & Magic • Warner Bros. Animation/Warner Bros. Pictures Animation • Paramount Animation • Sony Pictures Animation • DreamWorks Animation • Universal Animation Studios • Illumination | |||||
| Films directed by Eric Darnell |
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| Antz (1998) | Madagascar (2005) | Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) | Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) | Penguins of Madagascar (2014) | Madagascar: Asia's Away (2024) |
| v - e - dFilms directed by Tom McGrath |
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| Madagascar (2005) • Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008) • Megamind (2010) • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) • The Boss Baby (2017) • Spider-Gwen (2019) • Madagascar: Asia's Away (2024) |
| Films directed by Conrad Vernon |
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| Shrek 2 (2004) • Monsters vs. Aliens (2009) • Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (2012) • Sausage Party (2016) • Animal Party (2019) • The Running Chase Guy (2019) • The Addams Family (2019) • Madagascar: Asia's Away (2024) |
| v - e - dFilms directed by Jennifer Yuh Nelson |
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| Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011) • Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016) • The Darkest Minds (2018) |
- ↑ "New Dates & Changes". Box Office Mojo. Archived from the original on January 27, 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20150127074138/http://boxofficemojo.com/schedule/?view=changes&p=.htm. Retrieved April 27, 2017.
- ↑ Lieberman, David (January 22, 2015). "DreamWorks Animation Restructuring To Cut 500 Jobs With $290M Charge". https://deadline.com/2015/01/dreamworks-animation-restructuring-to-cut-500-jobs-with-290m-charge-1201355918/. Retrieved January 25, 2015.