Widescreen version.

Special features: "The penguins in a Christmas caper" movie short; "I like to move it, move it" music video; penguin commentary; games and jungle activities; "Behind the crates", "The tech of Madagascar:, "Mad mishaps" inside scoops; help the penguins "Crack the code".

$19.99.

Art director, Shannon Jeffries ; editor, H. Lee Peterson ; original music, Hans Zimmer ; visual effects supervisor: Philippe Gluckman ; production designer, Kendal Cronkkite-Shaindlin.

Voices: Ben Stiller, Chris Rock, David Schwimmer, Jada Pinkett Smith, Sacha Baron Cohen, Cedric the Entertainer, Andy Richter, Tom McGrath, Christopher Knights, Chris Miller, Conrad Vernon.

A lion and zebra and two other of their pampered friends, from New York's Central Park Zoo, accidentally find themselves shipwrecked on the island of Madagascar.

When an escape attempt from the Central Park Zoo fails, a lion, hippo, giraffe and zebra find that they are being shipped back to Africa. Scheming penguins highjack the ship with the intent of taking it to Antartica and cause the crates of the four zoo animals to go overboard. Eventually, the animals are marooned on the beach of Madagascar where they find out quickly that after spending their whole lives relying on humans to survive, they are not quite ready to take care of themselves.

MPAA rating: PG.

DVD, region 1; Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 stereo., single sided, dual layer.

In English, French or Spanish with optional subtitles in English, French and Spanish ; closed-captioned.