Madagascar is just filled with ear worms.
- Hans Zimmer's main theme
is both adventurous, frantic, and funny all at the same time, with the same "lemmings running off a cliff" quality of The Simpsons theme. - Borrowing John Barry's theme from Born Free was already an appropriate choice given that it's taken from a film that talks about animals returning to the wild... and then Hans Zimmer decided to use the Mormon Tabernacle Choir version, complete with a gentle, yet grandiose and sweeping, vocal section with the appropriate orchestra!
- King Julien's version of "I Like To Move It", performed by Sacha Baron Cohen. It's an incredibly hilarious and catchy song, and it fits the lemurs' partying perfectly. Will I. Am only adds to this in the sequel, as does Chris Rock's "Afro Circus" in the third film.
- Will I. Am's "The Traveling Song" melds with the main theme perfectly in Back 2 Africa. Hans Zimmer did the music for the first film, and teaming him up with will.i.am, who is largely a hip-hop producer and singer, is the musical equivalent of Kingdom Hearts.
- Yes, that really is Frances McDormand singing "Non Je Ne Regrette Rien".
- Vitaly's theme song (and Theme Music Power-Up), "Light the Hoop on Fire", complete with a men's chorus of Soaring Russian Chanting. You can tell Hans Zimmer was scoring it again.
- "We No Speak Americano" while the penguins are operating on the train, complete with Kowalski jumping on Private, Rico bashing a pipe and all four of them puffing steam to the beat of the song.
- Heitor Pereira's stripped-down Sweet Dreams Fuel version of "Best Friends" for the second movie's soundtrack.
