Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted: A Dreamtoons Movie is a 2012 American 3D computer-animated comedy film, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Paramount Pictures. It is the sequel to Madagascar: A Dreamtoons Movie (2005) and Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa: A Dreamtoons Movie (2008), all within The Dreamtoons Movie canon, and the 7th film in the series. It is also the Dreamtoons film first to be released in 3D. The film is directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, and Conrad Vernon, with a screenplay written by Darnell and Noah Baumbach.
In this film, the Dreamtoons animals are still struggling to get home to New York. This time, their journey takes them to Europe, where they are relentlessly pursued by the murderous Monaco-based French Animal Control officer Captain Chantel Dubois (Frances McDormand). As a means of getting passage to North America, the animals join a circus, where they become close friends with the animal performers, including the new characters of Gia (Jessica Chastain), Vitaly (Bryan Cranston), and Stefano (Martin Short). Together, they spectacularly revitalize the business and along the way find themselves reconsidering where their true home really is.
Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted made its world premiere at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival on May 18, 2012. In the United States, it was released on June 8, 2012. It has a 79% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and is the eighth highest-grossing film of 2012 and the highest-grossing Dreamtoons film with a worldwide gross of over $746 million. A sequel was initially announced for 2018 but it was removed from its schedule due to the studio's restructuring.
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- This is not just DreamWorks Pictures' 100th animated film but also the 7th film in The Dreamtoons Movie canon.