Madagascar 4: Australian Circus

Madagascar 4: Asia Getaway is a upcoming 2018 American 3D computer-animated action comedy adventure film, produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by Universal Studios. It is the fourth installment of the Madagascar series and a sequel to ''Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted. ''It is also the Second in the series to be released in 3D. The film is directed by Eric Darnell, Tom McGrath, and Conrad Vernon. It made its world premiere at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival on June 17 2018.

In this film, Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria had enough journey to join the circus but to come back home to New York. The next journey is to takes them to Asia, where they are relentlessly pursued by a hunter Mr. Drake Begum. As a means of getting passage to North America, the animals meet the rescued animals,  where they become close friends with The Jungle Troops, including the new characters of Calvo, Mao, Ria and Theo. And together they spectacularly revitalize the business and along the way find themselves on their epic journey.

Plot
In many days after travel all the world in the circus, Alex suggests to his friends, the lemurs, the penguins and the chimpanzees should just come back to New York City, also Gia and Vitaly can come with them, and Alex accepted it.

In Mumbai, the zoo animals should go to the mall for a deed and some cash to New York. But unfortunately Alex's interference to tranquilized and kidnap them leads to the famous, and vicious animal hunter named Mr. Drake Begum, who has grown resentful of Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria after he had been fired from the zoo and retired to Mumbai as a hunter, so Begum vows Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria and add them to his collection of animals for a million dollars.

Skipper and his team attempts to free and rescue the zoo animals, before escape and are chased through in the school bus that the penguins used and invented, and streets of Mumbai by Begum's henchman who are hyenas. When cornered, they are rescued by a group of animals from an jungle elite undercover interspecies task force rescuers called The Jungle Troops consisting of their leader a black panther whose name is Calvo, a otter named Theo, an elephant named Mao, and a red and green macaw named Ria with whom Skipper is instantly has a crush on her. Their goal is to help and protect the animals that are in danger.

One day the animals are in Tokyo for their layout, then they meet the group cats who's kick out of the Chinese restaurant for something to eat and they don't have a home, but then Alex convince they can come with them to New York to find a home. Once they take the cats they got on a plane and fly away for the crazy fight in the streets.

In the skies of China, the plane crashes in the jungle by running out of gas. Also the zoo animals arrive at the place called Jungletopia where the animals lived together to be protected of peace and harmony, once the animals check out the place, Marty meets Kaya, a female okapi who falls in love with her. Then back in the penguins set about repairing the plane with the several orangutans who recruited by Mason and Phil.

Meanwhile back in Mumbai, Begum was at his office to hired Ishan, an orphaned boy, whom work for him to investigate to find the zoo animals and he will able to pay him. While Ishan has second thoughts about his actions, back in Jungletopia Calvo soon reveals to Alex that some animals was the biggest star of them all, but unfortunately the canceled their show, therefore they lost their career, actions, and talents. Then one day Alex convinces the animals to make the new talent show for the animals in the process they grow closer.

Another day after the rehearsals and Melman and Gloria's anniversary party there was a fire burning in the trees and there's a baby monkey trap, then Vitaly climb up the branches and save the little monkey, and gives it to it's mother, and Calvo thank him for saved the jungle and the baby monkey. That night Ishan found the zoo animals and head's back to Bugum's, Alex convince Calvo to be who he is and that's why the people loves him. And he excitedly performed perfectly and the show is a spectacular success. And just for that he thinks they trick them and Alex and his friends faking it this whole time.

Soon later that morning the zoo animals feel sorry for themselves for hurting the animals feelings, but they realize that it was a spectacular days they have and apologizing to Calvo and the others, and then take them back home to New York. Before they can set things right to Cavlo and the other animals, Begum tranquilizes and captures them, and ship them back to Mumbai, but he had a suggested to take them to Mumbai zoo. Julien, Maurice, and Mort convince the penguins, and The Jungle Troops to rescue their friends.

Back in the Mumbai zoo, Alex awakens to find that he alone with his friends are trapped in fence enclosures. Begum also captures Kaya, who was honored by the zoo guards, secretly loads a poison-filled dart into a shotgun and give his henchmen of hyenas a shot for publicly executing Alex. the animal protectors arrive on the seaplane led by Skipper and able to defeat Begum and his hyenas.

Alex and his friends arrive in New York and place them down to the Central park Zoo, including Ishan, and Calvo convince and promise to take the zoo animals anywhere they want, and Alex agreed on it for pursue their adventures. Later Ishan got a job as a zookeeper and is adopted by his new parents, then Begum and his hyenas are caged up and shipped to Madagascar, the cats are being adopted by their new owner, Julien, Maurice and Mort had their newest habitat, the same does Gia, Vitaly, and Kaya, Ria shares a kiss with Skipper, and Alex and his friends celebrates and lives happily be back at the zoo in New York from this moment on.

Cast

 * Ben Stiller as Alex, a lion.
 * Chris Rock as Marty, a zebra and Alex's best friend.
 * David Schwimmer as Melman, a giraffe, another of Alex's friends and Gloria's love interest.
 * Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria, a hippopotamus, another of Alex's friends and Melman's love interest.
 * Sacha Baron Cohen as King Julien XIII, a ring-tailed lemur.
 * Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice, an aye-aye.
 * Andy Richter as Mort, a mouse lemur.
 * Tom McGrath as Skipper and Aba the hyena
 * Vince Vaughn as Mr. Drake Begum the Animal Hunter
 * Jessica Chastain as Gia, an Italian jaguar and Alex's girlfriend.
 * Bryan Cranston as Vitaly a Russian Siberian tiger.
 * Adam Scott as Calvo the black panther.
 * Terry Crews as Mao the Asian elephant.
 * Drew Barrymore as Ria the red and green macaw and Skipper´s love interest
 * Mark Wahlberg as Theo the otter.
 * Taraji P. Henson as Kaya the okapi and Marty's love interest
 * Chris Miller as Kowalski, one of Skipper's right-hand men.
 * Christopher Knights as Private.
 * Conrad Vernon as Mason and Chinese man.
 * Karan Brar as Ishan an orphan Indian boy and Begum's impoverished young assistant.
 * Martin Short as Stefano an Italian sea lion.
 * Vinnie Jones as Eddie the cat.
 * Jules de Jongh as Johnny the cat.
 * Nick Fletcher as Joey the cat.
 * Eric Darnell as Benny the cat.
 * Daniel O'Connor as Mall security guard and Passua the hyena.
 * Danny Jacobs as Rocky the Indian rhino and Bayo the hyena.

Soundtrack

 * 1) Dancing in the Street: performed by Martha and the Vandellas
 * 2) We are the Champions: performed by Queen
 * 3) Fireball: performed by Pitbull
 * 4) That's what love is: Performed by Cascada. Alex and Gia's love song.
 * 5) I will Survive: performed by Gloria Ganyor
 * 6) Roar: performed by Katy Perry
 * 7) I Like to Move It: Performed by Danny Jacobs & Cedric the Entertainer
 * 8) Don't Go Breaking My Heart: performed by Elton John and Kiki Dee

Omitted tracks
 * 1) The Lion Sleeps Tonight: performed by The Tokens
 * 2) Jump in the Line: Performed by Harry Belafonte
 * 3) New York Groove: Performed by KISS
 * 4) Ain't No Mountain High Enough: performed by Marvin Gaye and Tammi Terrell

Production
DreamWorks Animation's CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg confirmed in 2016 that there would be an additional sequel to Madagascar, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, and Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted.

At the Television Critics Association press tour in January 2009, Katzenberg was asked if there would be a fourth film in the series. He replied, "Yes, we are making a Madagascar 4 now, and it will be out in the summer of 2019.

On July 26, 2016, Katzenberg revealed in an e-mail that writer-director Noah Baumbach has done sixty pages of re-writes to the screenplay.

A significant amount of the animation and visual effects for the film had been done at DreamWorks Dedicated Unit, an India-based unit at Technicolor.

Release
Madagascar 4: Asia Getaway premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on June 14, 2018.

The American release followed on July 8, 2018.

The film was also converted to the IMAX format and shown in specific Asian territories, including India, China, and Thailand.