Penguins of Madagascar Dvd

Penguins of Madagascar (released on home video as Penguins of Madagascar: The Movie) is a 2014 American computer-animated spy action comedy film produced by DreamWorks Animation and distributed by 20th Century Fox. Starring the voices of Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Conrad Vernon, Christopher Knights, Benedict Cumberbatch, John Malkovich and Ken Jeong, it is a spin-off of the Madagascar film series and takes place right after the events of Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted, following the penguins Skipper, Kowalski, Rico and Private in their own adventure. Apart from the main characters, it is not directly related to the Nickelodeon TV series of the same name.

Plot

In Antarctica, three young Penguins—Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico—chase down an egg that rolls away into danger. After rescuing it from a pack of leopard seals, and accidentally setting themselves adrift on an iceberg, the egg hatches into their newest member, Private.

Ten years later, after joining the circus, the Penguins leave to celebrate Private’s birthday by breaking into Fort Knox in order to treat him to a discontinued snack called “Cheezy Dibbles” in the vending machine of the fort’s break room. Despite this, Private begins to feel undervalued by his teammates; being constantly described as being the team’s “mascot”.

Suddenly, they are abducted by the machine and taken to Venice by Dr. Octavius Brine, a renowned geneticist who reveals he is actually an octopus named Dave, who has grown resentful of penguins after their cuteness resulted in him being shunned by every zoo and aquarium in the world; beginning with him being removed Central Park Zoo shortly after the Penguins’ arrival. Rico swallows Dave’s collection of snowglobes along with a canister of “Medusa Serum” before the four escape and are chased by Dave’s octopi henchmen.

When cornered, they are rescued by a group of animals from an elite undercover inter-species task force called “The North Wind” consisting of their leader, a wolf whose name is “Classified”, a harp seal demolitionist named Short Fuse, a polar bear named Corporal who adores the penguins’ cuteness, and an analyst and intelligence officer snowy owl named Eva whom Kowalski becomes smitten with. The team has been fighting Dave to protect the penguin population.

At their hideout, their communication systems are hacked by Dave, who reveals that he has an enormous supply of the Medusa Serum and that he intends to capture the penguins from every zoo he was kicked out of and use the serum on them. Viewing Skipper and his team as a hindrance to their mission, Classified tranquilizes the group and ships them to their remotest base, but the penguins awaken mid-flight, evacuate the plane, and crash land in a desert. The penguins make their way to Shanghai, where they discover Dave’s next target, using his snowglobe collection. Skipper disguises Private in a mermaid costume to join the aquarium’s other penguins as part of the plan, but Private is captured along with them as soon after the North Wind arrives to stop Dave. The Penguins steal the North Wind’s jet to give chase, but inadvertently self-destruct it. They then tag along with the North Wind who use a lifeboat, and manage to track Private to an island base.

On the island, Dave demonstrates his plan to use the Medusa Serum to mutate the captured penguins into hideous monsters in an effort to make humans disgusted by them as revenge. Skipper and Classified argue on the best means to rescue the captives and stop Dave; Skipper reluctantly settles on Classified’s plan in which the North Wind attacks while the penguins act as a diversion, out of guilt for letting Private get captured. The North Wind manages to corner Dave in his lair only to be captured by Dave’s henchmen along with the Penguins. Dave demonstrates his mutation ray at full power on Private, apparently disintegrating him; but, unbeknownst to them, he escapes at the last minute by using a paper clip he swallowed earlier to free himself. Private rescues the North Wind, but Classified opts to regroup due to lack of equipment. Private, not wanting to leave anyone behind, leaves to stop Dave. Dave mutates the rest of the penguins as his submarine docks at New York with the promise of returning the “found” penguins. The city erupts into chaos as the brainwashed, mutated penguins run amok on the terrified humans. After successfully returning Skipper, Kowalski, and Rico to their senses by appealing to their memories, Private decides to connect himself into the ray to return all the penguins to normal using the power of his own cuteness, despite Skipper’s protests. The North Wind also returns in an Icecream truck and rams it into Dave’s submarine, destroying the vessel. After fending off Dave and his henchmen while Rico gets batteries for the beam’s remote, they manage to turn all the penguins back to normal.

Though Private is left mutated from the machine, the Penguins show their gratitude and newfound respect for him. Dave (who was affected by the blast) has been turned into a cute miniature version of himself and trapped inside a snowglobe where he is found and violently shaken by a little girl. Finally seeing them as equals, Classified opts to reward the Penguins. In addition to Kowalski getting kisses from Eva, the Penguins are given their own jet packs and fly off back to the circus.

In a mid-credits scene, the Penguins plug Mort into the ray and use him to revert Private back to normal. Mort does not show any side effects until he manages to swallow King Julien whole, much to the latter’s amusement.

Voice cast

See also: List of Madagascar (franchise) characters

John Malkovich and Benedict Cumberbatch talking at the Penguins of Madagascar panel at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con International
Tom McGrath as Skipper, the leader of the penguins.
Chris Miller as Kowalski, the brains of the penguins.
Christopher Knights as Private, the rookie of the penguins.
Conrad Vernon as Rico, the loose cannon of the penguins. Vernon replaces John DiMaggio as the voice of Rico in this film.
Benedict Cumberbatch as Classified, a British wolf and team leader of the North Wind.
Ken Jeong as Short Fuse, a Belgian explosive and demolitions expert harp seal and a member of the North Wind.
Annet Mahendru as Eva, a Russian snowy owl, Kowalski’s love interest, and the north wind’s intelligence analyst.