Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted
They have one shot to get back home.
2012 | 93m | English
Popularity: 5 (history)
| Director: | Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon |
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| Writer: | Noah Baumbach, Eric Darnell |
| Staring: |
| Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus. | |
| Release Date: | Jun 06, 2012 |
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| Director: | Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, Conrad Vernon |
| Writer: | Noah Baumbach, Eric Darnell |
| Genres: | Animation, Family, Comedy, Adventure |
| Keywords | circus, lion, zoo, hippopotamus, giraffe, penguin, villain, madagascar, friendship, cartoon, zebra, slapstick comedy, animals, lemur, talking animal |
| Production Companies | Pacific Data Images, DreamWorks Animation |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $746,921,274
Budget: $145,000,000 |
| Updates |
Updated: Aug 03, 2025 Entered: Apr 13, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| Ben Stiller | Alex (voice) |
| Chris Rock | Marty (voice) |
| David Schwimmer | Melman (voice) |
| Jada Pinkett Smith | Gloria (voice) |
| Frances McDormand | Captain Chantel DuBois (voice) |
| Sacha Baron Cohen | Julien (voice) |
| Andy Richter | Mort (voice) |
| Cedric the Entertainer | Maurice (voice) |
| Jessica Chastain | Gia (voice) |
| Bryan Cranston | Vitaly (voice) |
| Martin Short | Stefano (voice) |
| Paz Vega | Carmen (voice) |
| Frank Welker | Sonya (voice) |
| Tom McGrath | Skipper / First Policeman (voice) |
| Chris Miller | Kowalski (voice) |
| Christopher Knights | Private (voice) |
| Conrad Vernon | Mason / Second Policeman (voice) |
| Vinnie Jones | Freddie the Dog (voice) |
| Steve Jones | Jonesy the Dog (voice) |
| Nick Fletcher | Frankie the Dog (voice) |
| Danny Jacobs | Croupier / Circus Master (voice) |
| Dan O'Connor | Casino Security / Mayor of New York City (voice) |
| Eric Darnell | Comandante / Zoo Official / Zoo Announcer (voice) |
| Stephen Kearin | Fourth Policeman (voice) |
| Emily Nordwind | Zoo Official (voice) |
| Asucena Jimenez-Cruz | Kid in Crowd (voice) |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Noah Baumbach | Screenplay |
| Carlos Zaragoza | Set Designer |
| Travis Koller | Visual Development |
| Eric Darnell | Screenplay, Director |
| Goro Fujita | Visual Development |
| Tom McGrath | Director, Characters |
| Kevin Kaska | Orchestrator |
| Swetha Madhavan | Production Coordinator |
| Aleksey Igudesman | Musician |
| Geefwee Boedoe | Additional Effects Development |
| Sheila E. | Musician |
| Ronni Brown | Foley |
| Craig Kellman | Character Designer |
| Frank Ricotti | Musician |
| Kendal Cronkhite | Production Design |
| Tiffany Hillkurtz | Second Film Editor |
| Rachel Bolt | Musician |
| Tom Holkenborg | Additional Music |
| Dennis Leonard | Supervising Sound Editor |
| Lindsey Olivares | Visual Development |
| Rani Naamani | Lead Animator |
| Jeremy Bowker | Sound Effects Editor |
| Bryan Gregg LaShelle | Visual Development |
| John Allwine | Visual Effects |
| James Sathre | Lighting Technician |
| Chad Hammes | Line Producer |
| Nick Fletcher | Editor |
| Leslee Feldman | Casting |
| Christi Soper Hilt | Casting |
| Shannon Jeffries | Art Direction |
| Mary Grace Hartline | Art Department Assistant |
| Taryn Feingold | Actor's Assistant |
| Alissa Rowinsky Wright | Legal Services |
| Monica Dejbakhsh | Legal Services |
| Kyle Goins | Legal Services |
| Mona Shokrai | Legal Services |
| James Beshears | Executive In Charge Of Post Production |
| Judah Mambu | Production Coordinator |
| Tripp Hudson | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Darci Zalvin | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Karen L. Whitaker | Animation Department Coordinator |
| Nathan Wall | Animation |
| Rachel Fite | Animation |
| George Meppadath Kurian | Animation |
| Ross Burgess | Animation |
| Richard Quinn | Dialogue Editor |
| Ariga Parseghian | Finance |
| Vicki Hunter | Finance |
| Terri Anderson | Finance |
| Anisha Gupta | VFX Artist, Lighting Artist |
| Angela Ensele | Modeling |
| Slamm Andrews | Music Editor |
| Jonathan Williams | Musician |
| Roger Linley | Musician |
| Steve Mair | Musician |
| Paul Clarvis | Musician |
| Gary Kettel | Musician |
| Ian Thomas | Musician |
| Dan Newell | Musician |
| Bruce White | Musician |
| Mark Berrow | Musician |
| Jonathan Evans-Jones | Musician |
| Tom Pigott-Smith | Musician |
| Walt Fowler | Orchestrator |
| Casey Sword | Production Coordinator |
| Victor Fuste | Production Coordinator |
| Bonnie Lemon | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Beth Hofer | Executive In Charge Of Production |
| Tracey Dispensa | Production Supervisor |
| Christine Nguyen | Production Supervisor |
| Aditya Deosthale | Production Supervisor |
| Camille Leganza | Production Supervisor |
| Will Files | Sound Designer, Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Geoff Foster | Score Engineer |
| Yoriko Ito | Production Illustrator |
| Ariandy Chandra | Title Designer |
| Ken Ball | CG Supervisor |
| Greg Lev | CG Supervisor |
| Igor Lodeiro | CG Supervisor |
| Gaku Nakatani | CG Supervisor |
| Ronman Yiu Yan Ng | CG Supervisor |
| Gabriel Portnof | CG Supervisor |
| Milton E. Rodriguez-Rios | CG Supervisor |
| Aaron Smith | CG Supervisor |
| Laura Gorenstein Miller | Choreographer |
| Nishok Alagesan | Compositors |
| Erin Lehmkühl | Compositors |
| Elizabeth Himelstein | Dialect Coach |
| Alex Cardullo | Post Production Assistant |
| David Yanover | Post Production Supervisor |
| Brent Villalobos | Software Engineer |
| Margaret A. Decker | Software Engineer |
| Rain Angeles | Systems Administrators & Support |
| Bart Feliciano | Systems Administrators & Support |
| John O'Sullivan | Systems Administrators & Support |
| Kevin Crandell | Visual Effects Editor |
| Jim Passon | Color Timer |
| Peter Ettinger | First Assistant Editor |
| Nathan Schauf | First Assistant Editor |
| Adarsh Abraham | Lighting Artist |
| Onny P. Carr | Lighting Artist |
| Kirsten Drummond | Lighting Artist |
| Shane Glading | Lighting Artist |
| Dorien Gunnels | Lighting Artist |
| Oth Khotsimeuang | Lighting Artist |
| Jennifer Leigh King | Lighting Artist |
| Stanley Kwong | Lighting Artist |
| Linhan Li | Lighting Artist |
| Nitin Punchail | Lighting Artist |
| Afonso Salcedo | Lighting Artist |
| Hannah Sherman | Lighting Artist |
| Sahaya Ramesh Bosco | Lighting Artist |
| Javed Iqbal Shaikh | Lighting Artist |
| Ajay Upadhyay | Lighting Artist |
| Sharanya Viswamani | Lighting Artist |
| Mollie Gamo | Casting Assistant |
| Betty Tom | Production Accountant |
| Nandhini Giri | Production Coordinator |
| Lauren Blackshear | Production Coordinator |
| Laura C. Denton | Production Coordinator |
| Cate Celso | Production Coordinator |
| Allie Habeeb | Production Coordinator |
| Allie Habeeb | Production Coordinator |
| Stephanie Huber | Production Coordinator |
| Monalisa Kar | Production Coordinator |
| Shashank Ashok Kulkarni | Production Coordinator |
| Deepak Kumar | Production Coordinator |
| Tim Kwan | Production Coordinator |
| Jonathan B. Lee | Production Coordinator |
| Kyle Milardo | Production Coordinator |
| Aubrey Millen | Production Coordinator |
| Eric Michael Miller | Production Coordinator |
| Stephanie Quan | Production Coordinator |
| Caroline Robinson | Production Coordinator |
| Bobbak Sabet | Production Coordinator |
| Cathy Sitzes | Production Coordinator |
| Yimi Tong | Production Coordinator |
| Sumit Verma | Production Coordinator |
| Ben Zaehringer | Production Coordinator |
| Dinesh Krishnan Nair | Production Manager |
| Milind D. Shinde | Production Manager |
| Claudia Southmartin | Production Manager |
| David Edmunds | Production Supervisor |
| Jannette Eng | Production Supervisor |
| Meredith Narrowe | Production Supervisor |
| Rakesh S. Patil | Production Supervisor |
| Rachnatp | Production Supervisor |
| Ryan Genji Thomas | Production Supervisor |
| Cindy Azada Whitman | Production Supervisor |
| Dawn Yamada | Production Supervisor |
| David Hail | Publicist |
| Sean England | Foley |
| Rick Giovinazzo | Orchestrator |
| Ladd McIntosh | Orchestrator |
| Ed Neumeister | Orchestrator |
| Gary Summers | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
| Dustin Cawood | Sound Effects Editor |
| Andrii Trifonov | Sound Recordist |
| Nedy Acet | Animation |
| Teju Aloysius | Animation |
| Chris Bancroft | Animation |
| Bailey Brent | Animation |
| Nelson Brown | Animation |
| Sujit Chatterjee | Animation |
| Renjith Chundakkad | Animation |
| Lou Dellarosa | Animation |
| Lance Fite | Animation |
| Alexander Fleisig | Animation |
| Maciek Gliwa | Animation |
| Ryan Gong | Animation |
| Tomoyuki Harashima | Animation |
| Mariko Hoshi | Animation |
| Jeffrey Joe | Animation |
| Shajo John | Animation |
| Maharshi Joseph | Animation |
| Chris Kirshbaum | Animation |
| Manish Kumar | Animation |
| Scott Lafleur | Animation |
| Peer Lemmers | Animation |
| Sean Mahoney | Animation |
| Roy Margalit | Animation |
| Prasanjib Nag | Animation |
| Rajesh P.K. | Animation |
| Robyne Powell | Animation |
| Ron Pucherelli | Animation |
| Laure Retif | Animation |
| Cory Rogers | Animation |
| Mike Safianoff | Animation |
| David Spivack | Animation |
| Dane Stogner | Animation |
| Aljo Thomas | Animation |
| Sebastien Wojda | Animation |
| Ardie Johnson | Modeling |
| Steve McGrath | Modeling |
| John P. Rand | Modeling |
| Armando Sepulveda | Modeling |
| Phil Zucco | Modeling |
| Marty Havran | Modeling |
| James Wood Wilson | Visual Development |
| Chin Ko | Visual Development |
| Stevie Lewis | Visual Development |
| Erwin Madrid | Visual Development |
| Sam Michlap | Visual Development |
| Kenard Pak | Visual Development |
| Yash Agrawal | Visual Effects |
| Madhavaro Bheesetti | Visual Effects |
| Yiqun Chen | Visual Effects |
| Nishant Khanna | Visual Effects |
| Fangwei Lee | Visual Effects |
| Kyle Maxwell | Visual Effects |
| Jacob K. Melvin | Visual Effects |
| Dave Strick | Visual Effects |
| Mark Theriault | Visual Effects |
| Benjamin Andersen | VFX Artist |
| Greg Beckman | VFX Artist |
| Shiben Bhattacharjee | VFX Artist |
| N. Joseph Burnette | VFX Artist |
| Vikas Chandel | VFX Artist |
| Stephen Timothy Cooney | VFX Artist |
| Carl Kaphan | VFX Artist |
| Robert Kopinsky | VFX Artist |
| Rahul Nair | VFX Artist |
| Alex Patanjo | VFX Artist |
| Dhruva Pathak | VFX Artist |
| Shanmuga Raja | VFX Artist |
| Nikhil Sinha | VFX Artist |
| Lana Chen Sun | VFX Artist |
| Ben Sutherland | VFX Artist |
| Katie Van Maanen | VFX Artist |
| Andrew Wheeler | VFX Artist |
| Ramakrishna Yerramsetty | VFX Artist |
| Mark Burton | Characters |
| Sarah Jane Chin | Visual Effects Coordinator |
| Mahesh Ramasubramanian | Visual Effects Supervisor |
| Cassidy Curtis | Animation Supervisor, Lead Animator |
| Mark Donald | Animation Supervisor, Lead Animator |
| Bryce McGovern | Animation Supervisor, Lead Animator |
| Carlos Fernandez Puertolas | Animation Supervisor, Lead Animator |
| Jason Ryan | Animation Supervisor |
| Jason Spencer-Galsworthy | Animation Supervisor, Lead Animator |
| David Torres | Animation Supervisor |
| Guillermo Careaga | Lead Animator |
| Mark Roennigke | Lead Animator |
| Melanie Cordan | Lead Animator |
| Cameron Fielding | Lead Animator |
| Kevin Andrus | Lead Animator |
| Nideep Varghese | Supervising Animator |
| Riyad C.M. | Supervising Animator |
| Philip Cohen | Production Supervisor |
| Matt Salkin | Production Assistant |
| Josh Wood | Post Production Assistant |
| Mac Smith | Sound Effects Editor |
| Hans Zimmer | Original Music Composer |
| Lorne Balfe | Additional Music |
| Yvonne Suzette Moriarty | Orchestrator |
| Conrad Vernon | Director |
| Emily Nordwind | Production Supervisor |
| Name | Title |
|---|---|
| Mark Swift | Producer |
| Mireille Soria | Producer |
| Holly Edwards | Associate Producer |
| Organization | Category | Person | |
|---|---|---|---|
| BAFTA Awards | Best Animated Feature | N/A | Nominated |
| Venice Film Festival | Best Animated Feature | N/A | Nominated |
Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 65 | 79 | 52 |
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| 2024 | 12 | 65 | 112 | 50 |
| 2025 | 1 | 62 | 70 | 50 |
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| 2025 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 | 9 | 11 | 6 |
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| 2025 | 9 | 7 | 15 | 5 |
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