This past weekend the movie Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa came out and everyone from the first hit movie was there for a second helping of funny. Just to brush you up on the story. In the first one, four animals from the Central Park Zoo, Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller), Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the Giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the Hippopotamus (Jada Pinkett–Smith) escaped from the zoo and when they get captured are sent away on freight to Africa. They fall off the ship and end up in Madagascar. Well in this one, along with the help from their friends the penguins, who also left the zoo and are in Madagascar, they hatch up a plan to get back to New York on a plane that was wrecked on the island.

This weekend Ben Stiller took a poke at Hollywood actors and how shallow and self involved they can be. The movie is “Tropic Thunder” and let me just say that Ben has hit a home run with this movie. The movie is about three famous actors and a successful rapper who star in a war movie being filmed in South America. This movie is set to have the biggest budget ever for a war movie, with the cast that it has brought together, the only thing is they are terrible together and have been costing the studio way too much money. So after the studio pulls the plug on the project, the director decides to drop our group in the deep jungle of South America and film the movie with realism. He doesn’t tell the cast this very important piece of information though. Once there, our cast find themselves in deep trouble when they encounter real Asian soliders, which are not too happy about them coming into their territory.