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14. Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted (David Schwimmer)

Madagascar 3
Dreamworks

Nobody could blame you if DreamWorks' Madagascar trilogy all blurred into one shapeless whole in your mind, but 2012's threequel, Europe's Most Wanted, was both the biggest critical and commercial success.

David Schwimmer is of course perfectly cast in the franchise as neurotic hypochondriac giraffe Melman, and the third film gives the entire cast by far their best material of the series, even if the narrative itself is totally standard fare.

While Madagascar 3 is best remembered for its fantastically hallucinogenic, neon-tinged circus sequence - set to Katy Perry's "Firework", no less - it's also the wittiest of the three films, likely a result of Marriage Story's writer-director Noah Baumbach carrying out rewrites on the script.

If this ends up being the final entry into the core Madagascar series, it unquestionably went out on top.

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