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  • The penguins hijacking the DreamWorks Animation logo is absolutely hilarious. They just go and beat the shit out of the Moon Kid!
    Skipper: Well done, boys. Looks like ice-cold sushi for breakfast.
  • When Mort tries to board the plane with everyone, Julien is quick to have security tackle and beat him up. However, Mort soon slips a way from them. For whatever reason joyfully carrying a pair of scissors.
    • Later, Alex is startled to see Mort with a creepy look on his face on one of the wings of the plane in dark lighting, soon calming down when the little guy shows a more friendly face while in more brighter lighting. Alex sighs with relief and then greets Mort, who greets him back. Who, due to not clinging onto the wing anymore, is sent flying off with a comical scream. Alex can only turn back to the others and say he thinks he saw Mort.
  • The entire plane crash scene.
    • It starts with this exchange:
      [Bulb flashes to indicate empty fuel tank.]
      Kowalski: Skipper, look!
      Skipper: Analysis.
      Kowalski: It looks like a small incandescent bulb, designed to indicate something out of the ordinary, like a malfunction.
      Skipper: I find it pretty and somewhat hypnotic.
      Kowalski: That too, sir.
      Skipper: Right. Rico, manual. (Rico tosses him the manual… and then Skipper promptly smashes the bulb with it and tosses it away.) Problemo solved.
      Kowalski: Sir, we may be out of fuel.
      Skipper: What makes you think that?
      Kowalski: We've lost engine one… and engine two is no longer on fire.
      Skipper: Buckle up, boys.
      (Rico and Kowalski promptly do so)
      Skipper: (covering hula doll's eyes) Don't look, doll, this might get air-y. (pulls up the intercom speaker) Attention, passengers. This is your captain speaking. I've got good news and bad news. The good news is we'll be landing immediately. The bad news is… we're crash-landing. (plane takes a dive; everybody screams) When it comes to air travel, we know you have no choice whatsoever. But thanks again for choosing Air Penguin.
    • Julien is having a blast while the plane goes down, while Maurice is completely terrified.
      Julien: Raise your arms, Maurice! It's more fun when you raise your arms like this!
      [Julien, Maurice, and the skeleton they were sitting on are sucked out of the plane, and a parachute opens.]
      Julien: I can fly!
      • And to top it all off, the music plays "I Like to Move It" during Julien’s line.
  • Then as it continues going down:
    Alex: This could be it, Marty! I just want you to know that you're truly a one-in-a-million friend!
    Marty: Thanks, buddy! You're the best ever!
    Alex: I hope you won't mind when I tell you…
    Marty: Go on. Tell me anything. Tell me what.
    Alex: I broke your iPod!
    Marty: WHAT?!
    Alex: The buttons were so small! It made me mad!
    Marty: THE HORROR!
    Alex: I'm sorry!
    Marty: I'M GONNA KILL YOU, BUTT-BITER!
    Alex: It was an accident!
    Marty: BUTT-BITER!
    Alex: I'll get you a new one!
    Marty: BUTT-BITER!
    Melman: I LOVE YOU, GLORIA! I ALWAYS HAVE! (Gloria is sleeping. Alex and Marty stare at Melman, glance at each other, then back at Melman.) L-L-Like you love the beach or a good book… or the beach.
    • Doubling as a small moment of Awesome, but during the nosedive, Private can be seen still serving drinks to Marty and Alex. Somebody give that penguin a raise…
    • They aren't even actually nose-diving.
      Skipper: My goodness, Doll, you're shaking like a leaf. Rico, you've had your fun. Pull up. (after Rico pulls up) Gear down. (Kowalski lets landing gear wheels down) Gently now, you just wanna kiss the ground. Just a little peck, a smooch, like you're kissing your sister. (the plane touches the ground; the bottom tears off) I said, kiss it! (the plane keeps sliding, eventually resulting in the wings and exterior shell breaking off) Now just a little break. Just a touch. Little whisper.
      Mason: (yelling over the wind at Phil) I believe that's checkmate!
      [Alex and the gang continue to scream in terror as the plane shoots off a cliff and plunges into the deep.]
      Skipper: Commerce emergency landing procedure. Flaps up!
      Rico and Kowalski: (Raise flippers)
      Skipper: Deploy!
      Rico and Kowalski: (pull, opening parachutes)
      [Plane touches down slowly and smoothly, silent as a leaf.]
    • To top it off, then when the plane finally lands, only then do the oxygen masks deploy.
      Skipper: Kowalski, casualty report!
      Kowalski: Only two passengers unaccounted for, Skipper.
      Skipper: That's a number I can live with. Good landing, boys. Who says a penguin can't fly? (commence high fives)
  • This gag:
    Skipper: We should be up and running in, say, six to nine months.
    Alex: Sixty-nine months?!
    Skipper: No, six to nine months.
    Alex: Where'd you pull that number out of?
    Skipper: Excuse me? (Rico pulls a switchblade from out of nowhere; Skipper holds him back)
    • And the second part:
      Kowalski: Skipper, we've all the parts we need but we're slightly behind schedule.
      Skipper: How slightly?
      Kowalski: Six to nine years.
      Skipper: Sixty-nine years?!
      Kowalski: No, six to nine years.
  • Marty shows off his fountain trick (which culminates in a Spit Take) to the herd. The herd, being practically clones of Marty, instantly learn the trick — and taken to its logical conclusion when thousands of them spit take at Marty. Cue tsunami.
  • King Julien is the first to suggest a volcanic sacrifice with a long and complicated argument with himself. Finally he finishes with:
    Julien: Quickly! Before we all come to our senses!
    • Other great Julien lines include:
      Julien: (to Private, hanging from the light-fixture) You, in-flight slave… Bring me my nuts on a silver platter.
      Julien: If I, King Julien (that's my name), only had two days to live, I would do all the things I have ever dreamed of doing. I would love to become a professional whistler. I'm pretty amazing at it now, but I wanna get, like, even better. (Makes fart sounds, spits attempting to whistle) And you know what else I would do? I would invade a neighboring country and impose my own ideology on them, even if they didn't want it!
    • When he is on the plane he's sitting on a skeleton's lap. Once again, the skeletal hand makes the same motions as his own.
    • When Gloria confronts him about the attempted volcano sacrifice of Melman:
      Gloria: Julien, stop this! This is crazy!
      Julien: Oh, suddenly throwing a giraffe into a volcano to get water is crazy!
      Gloria: YES!
    • That exchange manages to be even funnier in the novelization with the addition of a single line after that:
  • The launch, flight and crash of the "plane" is a twenty-minute long moment of funny, possibly because the penguins feature heavily in it.
    Skipper: (over the PA) All passengers are invited to sit back, relax, and pray to your personal god this hunk of junk flies.
    Private: (as a flight stewardess) In the event of a lack of cabin pressure, place the mask over your face to hide your terrified expression from the other passengers. (puts on the mask, which covers his entire head)
    Marty: Excuse me, miss, but aren't these supposed to be attached to my seat? (holds up broken seat belt)
    Private: No, sir.
  • The entire “pass it on” scene.
    Alex: (to Marty) She's got a gun! Let's get out while we can!
    Marty: What?!
    Alex: (to the chimps) She's got a gun! Let's get out while we can! Pass it on!
    […]
    Mason: He said "Let's have some fun and take out the dam. Basset hound!"
    [Later, when Skipper's preparing to do just that.]
    Alex: (to the chimps) Tell them “no, pull up”! They'll kill us! There's got to be another way! Pass it on!
    […]
    Mason: They say “No pull up. Kill us. There's no other way. Basset hound!”
    Marty: Are you sure?
  • The fight between Alex and Nana (the old lady from the first movie). A polka remix of Ennio Morricone's score for The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is playing as they beat each other up with increasingly dirty moves.
    • Also, the No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Nana gives Makunga when she sees him with her tote. Just before that, there's Alex giving Makunga said tote. This is funnier if you imagine it as Jack Donaghy saying the lines.
      “Does the strap adjust? It does… yes I imagine this will be perfect for me when I'm out hiking.”
  • When the Penguins steal the first jeep, they smash Nana through the windshield and leave her behind:
    Private: Is she dead?
    Skipper: (angrily) No! (Kowalski promptly reverses straight into her)
  • After the entire “Alex on the Spot” scene…
  • Though it ends up getting Played for Drama, Moto Moto falls for Gloria because apparently she's the fattest hippo he's ever met.
    • When he first sees Gloria, he's mostly submerged in the watering hole except for his eyes, and he makes some flirty eyes at her as Gloria's new friends squee in excitement. Moto Moto emerges from the water, soaking and like a fatter version of a hippo Terry Crews. He tears down or inadvertently runs over anything and anyone in his way, including some small mammals. Then there's their conversation:
      Moto Moto: Goodness girl, you huge!
      Gloria: Who's your friend? Or is that your butt?
      Moto Moto: (actually turns around in surprise, before realizing what she means and chuckles) Girl, you as quick as you are hefty.
      Gloria: So you're Moto Moto.
      Moto Moto: The name's so nice, you say it twice. (holds up three fingers, then fumbles as he tries to decide which one to lower)
      Gloria: I kinda like it, fatso.
      Moto Moto: I'll see you 'round girl. It won't be too hard, 'cause you so… plumpy.
    • When Moto Moto flirts with her, Gloria tries to act cool and fumbles at sucking on her drink straw.
    • Their date the next night is pretty much him singing and joking about their obesity. When Gloria decides to start prying a little deeper, Moto Moto makes an eloquent little speech that tries to come off as sophisticated but is really just silly. He also insists that his answers to her questions will always be "yes" - unless no is required.
    • Just about every single dub of this sequence, including the song that Moto Moto sings in the background, is consistently and appropriately deep and baritone, and the ones that aren't know how to ham up the exceedingly flirty nature of it, to the point where it becomes both funny and impressive.
  • When Mort is washed up on the beach, still trying to find King Julien, a shark appears and chases him on land, trying to eat him. During the chase, Mort is heard laughing while running away.
    Mort: Bad fishy! Bad fishy! No, shark! No no! Sit! Ahhhhh! (laughing) Why am I laughing?
  • The film's Shout-Out to Planet of the Apes and the infamous man-ape kiss.
    Skipper: I'd like to kiss you, monkey man.
    Mason: …Alright, but you're so darn ugly. (kisses Skipper)
    Skipper: (in shock)
  • At the ending, Skipper and his doll gets married by Zuba. The characters has some interesting… things to say.
    Alex: What a weird and beautiful couple!
    Melman: That's not gonna last.
    [Later on…]
    Private: Can I kiss the bride Skipper?
    [Skipper slaps him.]

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