A year after DreamWorks released Madagascar, Disney released its own animated movie with a near-identical ... Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria the confident hippo, and David Schwimmer as Melman ...

The sequel to 2005's "Madagascar", in which New York Zoo animals, Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe and Gloria the Hippo, still stranded on Madagascar, start to leave the island.

and Gloria, the resolute hippo--the friends will find themselves crated up and shipped off to a remote wildlife preserve, only to end up on the sandy shores of exotic Madagascar. At last ...

In the third movie the Madagascar gang joins a circus ... and the interspecies married couple Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer) and Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith) are ready to go ...