Film · 2008 · 89 min · G · Adventure · Animation · Comedy
Still together, still lost.
Alex, Marty, and other zoo animals find a way to escape from Madagascar when the penguins reassemble a wrecked airplane. The precariously repaired craft stays airborne just long enough to make it to the African continent. There the New Yorkers encounter members of their own species for the first time. Africa proves to be a wild place, but Alex and company wonder if it is better than their Central Park home.
Directed by Eric Darnell
Starring Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Bernie Mac
Released in cinemas in Ireland on 5 December 2008.
JustWatch lists it to rent or buy on Apple TV Store, Sky Store, Rakuten TV and 1 more. No subscription streaming service is listed yet.
From TMDB release dates and JustWatch offers, as listed on 17 October 2026. Both change often; a missing date or offer means none is listed yet.
Release dates in Ireland
In cinemas
5 December 2008
Digital release
No date listed
Physical release
No date listed
First cinema release anywhere
30 October 2008 (Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine)
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Disney+ (subscription): no longer listed, by our checks of Friday 16 October
From our streaming checks, last checked 17 Oct, 06:53 Dublin time. "Expected" dates come from availability data, not the service; a "first detected" date is when a check first found it there, not its release date. See streaming releases this week in Ireland.
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