Quotes

Dialogue

Alex: [first lines] Surprise! Marty: [screams, slips from treadmill, tumbles and hits into a fence] Alex! Do not interrupt me when I'm daydreaming! When a zebra's in the zone, leave him alone. Alex: Come on, Marty. Just wanted to wish you a happy birthday! Marty: [chuckles] Hey, man, thanks! Alex: [expresses pain on the right side of his jaw] Oh! Ah! Oh! Hey, um... I got s – I got something stuck in my teeth. It's driving me crazy! Can you help me out here? Please? Marty: Ah! You came to the right place, my friend. Doctor Marty, D.D.S., is in the house! Please hop on top of my sterilized examination table, if you may. [Alex opens the mouth but can't see anything because it's dark] I don't see anything. Alex: [muffled] It's on the left. Marty: Ow! Alex: [muffled] Oh, sorry. Marty: OK, just don't talk with your mouth full. [Alex nods] Aha! Right here. What the heck is this doing in there? Alex: Happy birthday! Marty: Aww! Hey, thanks, man! You put it in behind the tooth. You all right? A

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Gloria: This is the life. [Receives a wide variety of fruit for her meal while drying in a big towel and polishing her nails for a massage.] Melman: [Melman is still getting medical treatment] That's the spot. [A chef reveals a tray full of medications and vitamins to make him feel better] Oh! I'm in heaven. Gloria: Ooh, it's Marty's birthday! Alex: Just rip it open. Come on! Marty: What is it? What is it? Gloria: Come on. Open it up. What do you get? What do you get? What do you get? Marty: Yeah! A thermometer. Thanks. I love it, Melman. I love it. [puts it in his mouth with style] Melman: Yeah, I wanted to give you something personal. You know, that was my first rectal thermometer. Marty: Mother–! [Marty proceeds to gag at the thought and spits out the thermometer while licking his tongue] Melman: I'm gonna miss that bad boy. Alex: Okay. Get the cake. Melman, come on. [Melman blows the party noisemaker] Everyone (sans Marty): [humming, in barber shop quartet-style] Alex: Happy Gloria

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Alex: Ahhh… what a day. I mean, just really, really, I mean, I tell you, it just doesn't get any better than this, you know? [short pause, Alex sees a star] Ooh! It just did. Even the star's out. Not going to find a star like that in the wild. Marty: Helicopter. [A star, which turns out to be a helicopter, flies away.] Alex: Marty. Buddy. Listen. Everybody has days when they think the grass might be greener somewhere else. Marty: Alex. Look at me. I'm 10 years old. My life is half over. And I don't even know if I'm black with white stripes... or white with black stripes. Alex: Marty. I'm thinking of a song. Marty: Alex. Please. Not now. Alex: Oh, yes. It's a wonderful song. I think you're familiar with it. [scatting] Marty: Oh, no. Oh, no, you don't. No, no, no. I'm not listening! Lalalalalalalalalalala! Alex: ♪ Start spreadin' the news ♪ Marty: I don't know you! Alex: ♪ I'm leaving today! We are a great big part of it ♪ Marty: [laughs] He's funny. Who is that? Alex: Come on. You know

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Gloria: Melman, come on! Melman: You know, maybe one of us should wait here in case he comes back. Gloria: Oh, no. Not now. This is an intervention, Melman. We all got to go. Alex: What's the fastest way to Grand Central?! Melman: Ooh! You should take Lexington. Gloria: Melman!! Melman: Okay. "We". We should take Lexington. Alex: What about Park? Melman: No, Park goes 2 ways. You can't time the lights. Mason: [Mason and Phil have just escaped the zoo] I heard Tom Wolfe's speaking at Lincoln Center. [Phil signs frantically] Well, of course we're going to throw poo at him. Alex: I knew we should've taken Park. Are you sure this is the fastest way to Grand Central Station? Gloria: I don't know! That's what Melman said! Melman: Hey. Hey, you guys. That room has some nifty little sinks you can wash up in and look! [sticks out his tongue with a urinal cake on it] Free mints! Alex: This isn't a field trip, Melman! This is an urgent mission to save Marty from throwing his life away! Now, where

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Marty: Grand Central Station. It's grand, and it's central. Melman: [squeezes his head out of the train doors] Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow! [head pops out and hits the ceiling sign and destroys a man's drum set while he hits the cymbal] Alex: [more people screaming and running away] Move aside. We have an emergency here. This is an emergency situation. Hey, hey. Just chill out. It's not that big of an emergency. [Nana hits him with her handbag three times] Hey! Hey! Would you? Hey! Yaaaagh! Ooh! Nana: Upstairs, downstairs! [kicks Alex's crotch, then sprays in his eyes] How do you like that?! Yahh!! Alex: Lady! What is wrong with you?! [Nana hits him twice] Ow! Get a grip on yourselves, people! Nana: [notices that lion can talk] You're a bad kitty! Announcer in the Grand Central: The next train to Connecticut has been… Marty: [angrily, as the train to Connecticut departs] Dagnabbit! I missed the express! [then calms himself down for another plan] Looks like I’m gonna have to take t

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Alex: [his eyes glow in the dark; groaning] Oh, my head... [bumps his head on the top of his crate] Oh! Ah! [the crate lights turn on automatically] What the…? Wait. [searches inside for the crate] Where…? What…? I'm in a box! Oh, no. No, no! Not the box. Oh, no, they can't transfer me! NOT ME! [panting] Oh. I can't breathe. I can't breathe. Darkness creeping in. Can't breathe. Can't breathe. Walls closing in around me. [whimpering] So alone. So alone. Marty: [his eyes open] Alex! Alex, are you there? Alex: Marty? Marty: [the crate lights have turned on automatically] Yeah! Talk to me, buddy. Alex: [relieved] Oh, Marty! You're here! Marty: What's going on? Are you OK? Alex: This doesn't look good, Marty. Gloria: [her eyes open] Alex? [the crate lights have turned on automatically] Marty, is that you? Marty: Gloria! Alex: You're here, too! Marty: I am loving the sound of your voice! Gloria: What is going on? Alex: We're all in crates! [Melman opens his eyes] Gloria: Oh, no! Wha…? Melman

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Alex: Marty? Melman? Gloria? Marty?! Melman?! Gloria?! Marty! Ah! Ooh! Ooh! Melman! Gloria! Ooh! Ooh! Ah! Ah! Hey, anyone! [echoes] Hello! [The next morning feels weary; exhausted and calling to his friends] Marty, Melman, Gloria. Gloria, Melman, Marty. Marty, Gelman, Gloria. Marty, Melman. Morty, Morty, Gelman. Regis. Kelly. [Suddenly, hears a voice] Matt, Katie, Al. Melman: Hey! Whoa! Hey! Help! Whoa! Get me out of this thing. Somebody. Hello? Get me out of this thing right now! Hello? Somebody? Alex: Melman! Melman: Alex? Is that you? Alex: Melman, I got you. Hang on! Hang on. I got you. [bumps his head; dig up from the sand] Melman! Melman: Ow… Alex: I got you, buddy. Melman: Ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow, ow... Ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow-ow! Alex: Wait a sec, Melman. Melman: Ow. Alex: Wait right there. [Picks up the branch] Aha! Melman: Alex, what are you doing? Alex: I'm getting you out of the box. Relax. Melman: Alex? [realises] Alex: Giraffe, corner pocket! Here goes nothin

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Marty: I hear it now! Gloria: Where there's music, there's people. Alex: We’ll go right to the head honcho. Melman: A sidewalk would be nice. Gloria: Yeah, what a dump. Alex: They should call it the San Di-lame-o Zoo. First, they tell you, "Hey! We got this great open-plan thing. Let the animals run wild!" Next thing you know, it’s flowers in your hair. Everybody's hugging everybody! Marty: This place kind of grows on you. This way, guys! Come on! Alex: [gets hit in the mouth by a branch] OW!! Ooh! [screams then cries in his hands] Aah! [his foot hits a rock] Oh, oh! AAH!!! [his foot pricks a thorn] Aah! What the...? [jumps through spider webs] Oh! Aah! Ew! Ew! [sputters as he tries to get the webs off himself, then knocks down a tree on himself] OH, NO!! AAAHH!!! Gloria: OK. Let's make a good impression on the people. Smiles, everyone. Let's get it together. Is that the best you can do, Melman? Melman: Oh, I'm not smiling. It's gas. Gloria: Okay. Well, great. Let's make gas look good.

Dialogue

Mort: [After Julien kicks him out from hiding nearby] No! OOH! [Sees Alex, Marty, Gloria and Melman and he gets scared and grabs his tail in fear.] Marty: Hi there. Alex: [clears throat to stop his friend] You let me handle it. [whispers] Alex handles it. Marty does nothing. [He walks over to a scared Mort and zooms in on his face; kindly] Hi there! [Mort looks at Alex's teeth and starts crying] Oh, jeez. Oh. Oh, Sorry. Melman: Oh, Alex. What did you do? Alex: Oh, Shh! Shh! Shh! No, no, no. Stop. Stop. Shh! It's OK. It's OK. I'm just a silly... just a silly lion. [Mort starts screaming, while crying even louder] Oh, jeez! Marty: [knowing that Alex just made it worse] Aw, Alex. Gloria: [Marty and Melman angrily criticize Alex, but walks to Mort] Oh, you poor little baby. Did that big mean lion scare you? Mort: Mm-hmm. [muttering] Gloria: He did? He's a big, bad old puddy tat, isn't he? [She picks Mort up] Come on. Mama'll hold you. Aww, look at you. Melman: [as Gloria is cuddling Mort]

Dialogue

Skipper: Well, boys? It's gonna be ice-cold sushi for breakfast. [he and Private take high five] Rico. Melman: Well, since I'm doomed to die on this forsaken island, I, Melman Mankiewicz, being of sound mind and unsound body, have divided my estate equally among the three of you. [Right before he could finish his sentence, a wave came in and washes half of the writing away] Oh... Sorry, Alex. Marty: Hey! A latrine. Nice work, Melman. Outdoor plumbing. Alex: No, it's not a latrine. It's a grave! You sent Melman to his grave. Are you happy? Marty: Aw, come on. This isn't the end. This is a whole new beginning. This could be the best thing that's ever happened to us. Alex: No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No. No! This is not the best thing that's ever happened to us! Melman: Yeah! You abused the power of the birthday wish and brought this bad luck on all of us. So why'd you tell your wish? You're not supposed to do that. Marty: Wait a minute. I didn't wanna tell you. Remember? You guys mad

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Maurice: Everybody, calm down. Come on. Into your chairs. Yes. Everybody, please, calm down. Let go of his tail. Separate those two, would you, please? You over here, and you, over there. Everybody, Shh... Calm down, people, OK? Ugh. Now, presenting your royal highness, the illustrious blah, blah, blah. You know, et cetera, et cetera. Hooray. Let's go. King Julien: Now, everybody, we all have great curiosity about our guests, the New York Giants. Yes, Willie? Willie the lemur: I like them. Mort: I like them. I like them! I liked them first! Before I even met them, I liked them! King Julien: Yes, yes. Yes! We get it… Mort: When I saw them, I liked them right away. You hate them compared to how much I like them… Julien: Oh, shut up! You're so annoying!! [Pauses out of the park and Mort chuckles] Now, for as long as we can remember, we have been attacked and eaten by the dreaded fossa. Lemur: THE FOSSA! THE FOSSA ARE ATTACKING!! [screams] AAHHH!! Lemur 2: [holds up a book titled "To Serve

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Everyone (sans Alex): [laughing] Melman: I know. And then... [Alex knocks on the door] Shh. Shh. It's him. Marty: Who is it? Alex: It's the pizza man. Who the heck do you think it is? Marty: [opens the slot door and sees Alex's eye] Yes? Can I help you? Alex: Can I come to the fun side? Marty: [closes the slot door; opens the door a little bit which is locked] Beg your pardon? Alex: You know, I've been kind of a jerk, Marty. But I've been thinking about what you said, and... I'm sorry. Marty: [Closes the door. But then unlocks and opens the door] Welcome to Casa del Wild! Take a load off. Hey, hey, wipe your feet. Gloria: Alex! Marty: [In Spanish] Mi casa is su casa. Alex: Very impressive. Marty: Hey, have a drink. It's on the house. Alex: [Drinks the water from the coconut shell, but it's seawater instead of potable water and he spits it out!] This is seawater. Marty: Oh, you don't swallow it. It's just temporary till the plumbing's done. Hey, y'all look hungry. How would you like som

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King Julien: Wake up, Mr. Alex. Wake up, Mr. Alex. Rise and shining. Wakey-waking, Mr. Alex! [Loudly] WAKE UP!!!! ALEX!!!!! [Alex muffled gasp] You suck your thumb? Alex: AHH! Everyone (sans Alex): AHH!! Everyone: AAHHHH!!! Alex: Where are we? What the heck is going on? King Julien: Take it easy. Alex: What is this? Melman: Who built a forest? King Julien: Whoa, whoa, whoa! Don't be alarmed, giant freaks! While you were asleep, we simply took you to our little corner of heaven. Welcome to Madagascar. Marty: Mada-who-ah?! Gloria: What? King Julien: No, not who-ah, ascar. Alex: Marty. It's... Marty: It's just like my mural back at the zoo. Gloria: Oh, no, fella, that is the real deal right there. King Julien: Look at that, that's not a bad view. Alex: I mean, that's the thing that you were always looking at, but it's actually there. I mean, that's like the real version of your... Marty: Hey, how about once around the park? Let's get our blood pumping, get those lungs breathing all this f

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Marty: Ladies and gentlemen, primates of all ages. The wild proudly presents: The king! Both: Alex the Lion! Alex: [whispers] Ahhhh! Marty: E♭, fellas. Marty: Yeah! The king is in the house! King Julien: See, if he is the king, then where is his crown? I've got a crown. Got a very nice one! And it's here on my head! Look at it! Have I got it on? Marty: Do the roar, man! Do the roar! Marty: Wow. I've never heard that one before. Yeah! Go wild, man! Come on! Break out the wave! [The lemurs cheer excitedly. Unfortunately, Alex, who hasn't eaten in a long time, starts to see the lemurs as steaks. His claws emerge, and the camera shifts to capture the lemur wave. Suddenly, Marty lets out a scream, and the music comes to an abrupt halt. Everyone except Marty is in shock as the camera zooms out, revealing that Alex has bitten Marty on the behind. In response, Mort happily claps for a brief moment.] Excuse me?! You're biting my butt! Alex: [long pauses as his eyes go back to normal; muffled] N

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Marty: What have I done? This is a nightmare! And it's all my fault. Now, because of me, we've lost Alex. Melman: Well, what are we going to do? Gloria: We'll find a way to help him. That's what we'll do. Melman: Oh! OK. Gloria: Come on, we are New Yorkers, right? Marty: Yeah. Gloria: We're tough. We're gritty. Marty: Yeah! Gloria: We're adaptable! Marty: Yeah!! Gloria: And we are not going to lay down like a bunch of Melmans! Melman: No, we're not. [horn blaring] Oh. Gloria. Gloria: That was not me, OK? That was the boat. The boat! Marty: The boat? The boat's come back for us! Come on, guys, we got to flag it down. Marty: There it is! Melman: Hey, over here! Gloria: Over here! Marty: Over here! Over here! Yo! Yo! Yo! Gloria: Melman, give me a lift. Hurry up! Lift me up! Marty: Help! Help! Help! Melman: Oh, my neck. My neck. My neck. You guys. Over here! Gloria: Over here! Melman! Steady. This way! Marty: Over here! Melman: You have no idea how much this hurts. Marty: Hey, boat! We're

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Marty: Help me!! Anybody, help me!! Somebody!! [Marty turns to see two Fossas riding on his butt and dumping salt and lemon juice on him] Ah! [Marty throws the Fossa off of him] HEEEEELLLLP!!!!!!! Marty: Melman? Melman: That's right, baby. [Both crash into the rock] Gloria: [As she picks up and puts Marty down, the fossa ran towards them] RUN! Marty: What's the plan? Gloria: This is the plan! Fossa: Foosa hungry. Foosa eat. Marty: This is the plan?! Skipper: [He comes out of the jungle, into the fossa’s path, and pulled out a flare gun] Foosa halt! The Fossas: Huh? [amazed by a flare Skipper has fired] Ooh. Foosa aaahh. Foosa ooh. Foosa aaahh. Private: [Then Rico up chucks a cherry, that plops onto Privates whipped cream covered head.] Come and get it! Fossa: Foosa-Huh? Gloria: [Using Melman’s head as a hammer, she whacked them on their heads] Take that! Fossa: Foosa ow! Private: There's too many of them, Skipper! Skipper: It's been a real pleasure serving with you, boys. Marty: Alex?

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Skipper: Close those eyes. Alex: Why do I have to close my eyes? Skipper: Do it. Alex: Yeah. They're closed. Skipper: Tighter. Alex: Yes, sir. Skipper: No peeking. Alex: Alright. They're closed. Skipper: Rico. Rico: [takes the fish; Does a karate chop with two knives; carves; slaps the bottom of the fish turns into 12 sushi fish and drops] Hai. [the tail drops on his head; the knife takes a sushi fish] Skipper: Open that hatch. Alex: Aah… Skipper: [the sushi fish puts inside Alex's mouth] Fire in the hole. [closes the Alex's mouth and chews] Now chew. Chew like you mean it! Savor it. Alex: Mmm… Mmm. Marty: And? Gloria: Well? Melman: Pretty good, right? King Julien: There's always Plan B. [Mort laughs] Alex: Mmm… Mmm. This is better than steak. I love it! I love it! Skipper: The kitty loves the fishy. [Kowalski and Private got a high-5 as everyone cheers] Marty: Well, I propose a toast. Now, he may be a pain in the butt at times... And trust me, I know. But this cat proved to me without

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Alex: [waving to the lemurs] Bye, little fuzz buckets! Gloria: Thanks for everything! Marty: Bye! Alex: So long! King Julien: Okay, bye-bye, now. Marty: Arrivederci. King Julien: Bye-bye. Maurice: Toodle-oo! Mort: Bye! Goodbye! King Julien: See you later, crocodile. Maurice, my arm is tired. Wave it for me. Faster, you naughty little monkey! Alex: You know, by the time we get to New York, it’s gonna be the middle of winter. So I was just thinking, why rush? Maybe we could make a few side stops along the way? Marty: Maybe Paris. Gloria: Ooh! You just read my mind. Alex: I was thinking Spain. Marty: Yeah. Run with the bulls. Gloria: What about Fiji? Melman: Ooh! Canada. Can we? Cheap meds. Eh? Tsk, tsk. Alex: You know, I wouldn't even mind coming back here sometime. Melman: Yeah, I could do that. Gloria: You could say that again. I always wanted to go to Australia. Private: Skipper. Don't you think we should tell them that the boat's out of gas? Skipper: ... Nah. Just smile and wave, boy

Main Menu

Marty: Alex, are you there? Alex: Marty? Marty: Yeah! Talk to me, buddy. Alex: Oh, Marty! You're here! Marty: What's going on? Are you OK? Gloria: Alex? Marty, is that you? Marty: Gloria! Alex: You're here, too! Marty: I am loving the sound of your voice! Gloria: What is going on? Alex: Come on! Melman, Melman, Melman! Melman, Melman, Melman! Wake up! Melman: [scoffs] I'm calling in sick. Marty: Is that Melman? Gloria: Are you OK? Melman: Yeah. No, I’m fine. Alex: Marty. I'm thinking of a song. Marty: Alex. Please. Not now. Alex: Oh, yes. It's a wonderful song. I think you're familiar with it. [scatting] Marty: Oh, no. Oh, no, you don't. No, no, no. I'm not listening! Lalalalalalalalalalala! Alex: ♪ Start spreadin' the news ♪ Marty: I don't know you! Alex: ♪ I'm leaving today! We are a great big part of it ♪ Marty: [laughs] He's funny. Who is that? Alex: Come on. You know you know the words. Marty: New York. Both: ♪ New York! ♪ Alex: See? Mr. Grumpy Stripes! We make a great team. Melma

Bonus Features

[staggers around with the crate] Get me out of this thing right now! Hello? Somebody? Hello? Somebody? Hello? Somebody?

DreamWorks Kids

Just smile and wave, boys. Smile and wave.

Audio

[walks to an island while making fart noises with his armpits] Yeah!

Subtitles

[walks to an island] This is the life.

Teaser Trailer

Everyone (sans Marty): [humming, in barber shop quartet-style] Alex: Happy Gloria: birth- Melman: day Alex: to Gloria: you. Alex: You Melman: live Gloria: in Alex: a zoo. Gloria: You Melman: look Alex: like a Melman: mon- Alex: key. Melman: [holds long note] Aaaaand Alex: you smell Gloria: like Melman: one Everyone: too! [laughs] Mason: [He spits holding tea cup] I say! [Phil smells his armpits and faints] Announcer: Welcome to the "Central Park Zoo". Narrator: Most animals know a lot more than we think. Gloria: Mm-hmm. I know that's right. Narrator: They have feelings. Skipper: We don't belong here; it's just not natural. This is all some kind of whacked-out conspiracy. [dives back into the hole and seals the hole entrance with Marty's cup] Narrator: They make plans. Skipper: Today we're gonna blow this dump. [Rico slaps the Captain] Private: I did it! Narrator: [The four high five each other as Skipper slaps Private.] And sometimes... Marty: I wished I could go... <big>TO THE WILD!!!

Trailer

Announcer: Welcome to the "Central Park Zoo". Skipper: Just smile and wave, boys. Today we're gonna blow this dump. Alex: Here come the people, Marty! Oh, I love the people! Gloria: This is the life. Narrator: They had the best of everything... Alex: It's just doesn't get any better than this, you know? Narrator: ...until they wanted a night on the town. Marty: Let's go. Alex: What? Marty: Come on! We can be back by morning. The penguins are going. [Rico pops the lid with the wine and Gloria bashes the outside wall of the zoo] This place is crack-a-lacking! [Melman pops out of my head] Skipper: [the Police and Firemen are called; frustrated before the penguins raise their flippers] We've been ratted out, boys. Marty: Good evening, officers! Narrator: Now, they're being sent way out of town. Alex: Oh great. This is just great. Marty: This could be the best thing that's ever happened to us. Alex: No. No. No. No. No. No. No! Alex: [Pulls away the leaves to see the Fossa, but the fossa get

Trailer (international)

Announcer: Welcome to the "Central Park Zoo". Skipper: Just smile and wave, boys. Today we're gonna blow this dump. Alex: Here come the people, Marty! Oh, I love the people! Gloria: This is the life. Narrator: They had the best of everything... Alex: It's just doesn't get any better than this, you know? Narrator: ...until they wanted a night on the town. Marty: Let's go. Alex: What? Marty: Come on! We can be back by morning. The penguins are going. [Rico pops the lid with the wine and Gloria bashes the outside wall of the zoo] This place is crack-a-lacking! [Melman pops out of my head] Skipper: [the Police and Firemen are called; frustrated before the penguins raise their flippers] We've been ratted out, boys. Marty: Good evening, officers! Narrator: Now, they're being sent way out of town. Alex: Oh great. This is just great. Marty: This could be the best thing that's ever happened to us. Alex: No. No. No. No. No. No. No! Alex: [Pulls away the leaves to see the Fossa, but the fossa get