Madagascar

Madagascar is a computer animated movie directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath, produced by DreamWorks Animation. The story follows a lion, zebra, giraffe and hippo in Central Park Zoo who are close friends. Marty the zebra plans to espace from the zoo to see the rest of the world and joins with the zoo's penguins who are also trying to escape the zoo. Alex(lion), Melman(giraffe) and Gloria(hippo) try to follow them. But all are sedated by Tranquilizer darts and shiped to kenya by sea. Penguins escape and take over the ship with the intention of taking the ship to Antartica. The crates containing the lion, hippo, giraffe and zebra fall off the boat and wash ashore on Madagascar, while the ship controlled by penguins wrecks ashore on Madagascar. The movie was released on May 27, 2005 in US.