![]() ![]() “All my clean jokes are in the movie,” notes Rock. Once the voice sessions were underway, the actors were allowed to riff on the writer’s lines. What’s a zebra say? OK, I’m going to say that.”‘ “I’m, like, “What? I’m a zebra? OK, I’m a zebra. “I don’t actually question things,” he says. It’s the same thing that takes Marty out of the zoo that took me out of Brooklyn.”ĭid Rock ever question why he was cast as a zebra, of all animals? “I was just a guy who wanted to get out of Brooklyn immediately as a child. ![]() “My character bores very easy,” notes the comedian. In some ways, Rock’s restless zebra is a reflection of his own wanderlust. “He likes the status quo, which is something that I can identify with.” ![]() “Alex is a creature of habit,” notes the actor, who is married to Allentown area native Christine Taylor. Stiller says he had no trouble connecting with his stay-at-home lion. It’s a parable about friendship.”Īs soon as the actors came on board, the characters began taking shape. But the theme of the movie couldn’t be, “Don’t eat your friend!’ What we came up with is that it doesn’t matter where you go, it only matters who you go with. “We liked the idea of a friendship between a zebra and a lion and how that relationship changes when they’re in the wild. “It took four years to make the movie, three of which were devoted to developing the original idea,” notes the director, who cites “Looney Toones” animator Tex Avery and painter Henri Rousseau as the movie’s two primary visual influences. As their natural impulses take over, Marty and Alex’s friendship undergoes a test.įor McGrath, the single most-challenging aspect of the production was figuring out how to build an entire story out of a simple fish-out-of-water premise. In the beginning of the film, Phil can be seen putting on lipstick and popping his lips as part of playing the king of Versailles.When a quartet of tough-talking penguins (one of whom is voiced by McGrath) take control of the cargo ship, the gang wash ashore in Madagascar, a tropical desert overrun by ringtail lemurs (Andy Richter, Cedric the Entertainer and Sacha Baron Cohen) with a love of non-stop partying. In Madagascar 3, Phil and Mason are seen as the king of Versailles. However, PoM TV and any other works in that range are not canon. Interestingly, in the Penguins of Madagascar comic book, he is able to talk. Although ASL is traditionally used by the deaf and the hearing-impaired, Phil is neither and uses it only because he is mute, as evidenced by " Assault and Batteries" when he jammed bananas in his ears to drown out King Julien's obnoxious music. ![]() He knows how to read the English language and often interprets things for Mason. Phil is the lighter colored of the two chimps and he is a mute who uses sign language as his means of communication and he even signs while he is dreaming. In near stark contrast to Mason, Phil is the "Oscar" of the Chimpanzees as he is more dirty and temperamental. Although he is mute, he is an avid (having or showing a keen interest in or enthusiasm for something) reader where he can communicate with American Sign Language and can read properly with Mason being able to translate his sign language. Phil is a mute chimpanzee who has dark brown fur. ![]()
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