Alex the lion is the king of the urban jungle, the main attraction at New York's Central Park Zoo. He and his best friends -- Marty the zebra, Melman the giraffe and Gloria the hippo -- have spent their whole lives in blissful captivity before an admiring public and with regular meals provided for them. Not content to leave well enough alone, Marty lets his curiosity get the better of him and makes his escape -- with the help of some prodigious penguins -- to explore the world.
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Ben Stiller as Alex |
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Chris Rock as Marty |
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David Schwimmer as Melman |
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Jada Pinkett Smith as Gloria |
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Sacha Baron Cohen as Julien |
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Paco León as como Alex |
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Cedric the Entertainer as Maurice |
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Andy Richter as Mort |
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Tom McGrath as Skipper / Fossa / Panicky Man on Subway |
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Christopher Knights as Private |
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Chris Miller as Kowalski |
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Conrad Vernon as Mason |
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Eric Darnell as Zoo Announcer / Lemur #1 / Fossa / Subway Car Announcer |
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David Cowgill as Police Horse |
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Elisa Gabrielli as Old Lady |
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Stephen Apostolina as Police Officer (as Steve Apostolina) |
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Devika Parikh as News Reporter |
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David P. Smith as Spider / Lemur #2 |
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Cody Cameron as Willie |
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Bob Saget as Zoo Animal |
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Jeffrey Katzenberg as Rico (uncredited) |
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John DiMaggio as Rico (voice) |
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Jan Josef Liefers as Alex (voice) |
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Bastian Pastewka as Melman (voice) |
Directing | Eric Darnell | Director |
Directing | Tom McGrath | Director |
Writing | Mark Burton | Writer |
Writing | Billy Frolick | Writer |
Visual Effects | James Baxter | Animation Supervisor |
Visual Effects | Trey Thomas | Animation Supervisor |
Production | Pilar Flynn | Production Supervisor |
Visual Effects | Emilio Ghorayeb | Animation |
Editing | Paul Carrera | First Assistant Editor |
Writing | Eric Darnell | Writer |
Writing | Tom McGrath | Writer |
Production | Teresa Cheng | Co-Producer |
Production | Mireille Soria | Producer |
Sound | Hans Zimmer | Original Music Composer |
Editing | Clare De Chenu | Editor |
Editing | Mark A. Hester | Editor |
Editing | H. Lee Peterson | Editor |
Production | Leslee Feldman | Casting |
Art | Kendal Cronkhite | Production Design |
Art | Shannon Jeffries | Art Direction |
Art | Kory Heinzen | Production Illustrator |
Art | Damon Bard | Sculptor |
Art | Doug Pierce | Set Designer |
Crew | Ryeland Allison | Additional Music |
Crew | Mark Schoellkopf | Post Production Assistant |
Crew | Barbara Ford | Post-Production Manager |
Crew | Lori Korngiebel | Post Production Supervisor |
Crew | Gary L. Wohlleben | Production Controller |
Crew | Stewart Birnam | Software Engineer |
Sound | Craig Heath | Sound Recordist |
Crew | Paul Chung | Supervising Animator |
Crew | Greg Bulman | Systems Administrators & Support |
Editing | Terry Claborn | Color Timer |
Lighting | Amy Christensen | Lighting Artist |
Production | Christi Soper | Casting Associate |
Production | Robert C. Campion | Production Accountant |
Production | Jamie J. Silverman | Production Coordinator |
Production | Maryann Garger | Production Manager |
Production | Brian Brecht | Production Supervisor |
Sound | Mark Coffey | Assistant Sound Editor |
Sound | James Ashwill | Foley |
Sound | Melissa Muik | Music Editor |
Sound | Mark Binder | Sound Effects Editor |
Sound | Erin Michael Rettig | Sound Engineer |
Sound | Richard L. Anderson | Supervising Sound Editor |
Visual Effects | Travis Koller | Visual Development |
Visual Effects | Francois Antoine | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | Philippe Gluckman | Visual Effects Supervisor |
Crew | José Antonio Macías | Translator |
Crew | Karey Kirkpatrick | Creative Consultant |
Editing | Edie Bielman | Additional Editing |
Visual Effects | Tracey Dispensa | Animation Production Assistant |
Production | Dave Rosenbaum | Unit Manager |
Crew | Corban Gossett | Supervising Technical Director |
Sound | Bruce Fowler | Orchestrator |
Crew | Cheryl Abood | Thanks |
Crew | Bill Damaschke | Thanks |
Crew | Edwin R. Leonard | Thanks |
Crew | Debbie L. O'Keeffe | Thanks |
Sound | Alan Meyerson | Additional Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Production | Olivier Mouroux | Publicist |
Production | James Beshears | Executive In Charge Of Post Production |
Crew | Evan Smyth | Software Engineer |
Production | Kristen D. Chidel | Executive In Charge Of Production |
Production | Jill Hopper | Executive In Charge Of Production |
Production | Kristina Reed | Executive In Charge Of Production |
Visual Effects | Mark A. McGuire | Visual Effects Technical Director |
Visual Effects | Robyn Rindge | Visual Effects Technical Director |
Sound | Rachel Bolt | Musician |
Sound | Morten Folmer Nielsen | ADR Editor |
Visual Effects | Jaime Castañeda | Animation |
Visual Effects | Linda Bel | Animation |
Visual Effects | Morgan R. Kelly | Animation |
Sound | Andy Sisul | Assistant Sound Editor |
Visual Effects | Buck Lewis | Character Designer |
Crew | Jim Dooley | Additional Music |
Crew | Junkie XL | Additional Music |
Crew | James S. Levine | Additional Music |
Crew | Heitor Pereira | Additional Music |
Sound | Heitor Pereira | Musician |
Crew | Erik Mattson | CG Supervisor |
Sound | Wade Wilson | Sound Effects Editor |
Production | Terri Anderson | Finance |
Sound | John T. Cucci | Foley |
Lighting | Shaun Collaco | Lighting Artist |
Lighting | Betsy Nofsinger | Lighting Artist |
Visual Effects | Jeff Hayes | Character Modelling Supervisor |
Sound | Jonathan Williams | Musician |
Sound | Nicholas Bucknall | Musician |
Sound | Anthony Pike | Musician |
Sound | Steve Mair | Musician |
Sound | Andrew Findon | Musician |
Sound | Anna Noakes | Musician |
Sound | Paul Clarvis | Musician |
Sound | Paul Archibald | Musician |
Sound | Andrew Crowley | Musician |
Sound | Mike Lovett | Musician |
Sound | Dan Newell | Musician |
Sound | Owen Slade | Musician |
Sound | Bruce White | Musician |
Sound | Mark Berrow | Musician |
Sound | Jonathan Evans-Jones | Musician |
Sound | Boguslav Kostecki | Musician |
Sound | Warren Zielinski | Musician |
Production | Katherine Levin | Production Coordinator |
Production | Lee Rasé | Production Coordinator |
Crew | Jeff Lee | Systems Administrators & Support |
Production | Kelly Jean-Ware | Production Supervisor |
Production | Jennifer Dahlman | Production Supervisor |
Production | Tonia Pizzato | Production Supervisor |
Production | Stacy Rentel | Production Supervisor |
Production | Fadi Basem Kandah | Production Supervisor |
Production | Ryan Harris | Production Supervisor |
Production | Noel Wolfman | Production Supervisor |
Sound | James Bolt | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Sound | Al Clay | Scoring Mixer |
Visual Effects | Alex Ongaro | Visual Effects |
Art | Ruben Hickman | Production Illustrator |
Art | Yoriko Ito | Production Illustrator |
Art | Alexandre Puvilland | Production Illustrator |
Art | Jo Watanabe | Production Illustrator |
Art | James Wood Wilson | Production Illustrator |
Art | Ariandy Chandra | Title Designer |
Crew | Peter Mehlman | Creative Consultant |
Crew | Ted Tally | Creative Consultant |
Crew | Conrad Vernon | Creative Consultant |
Crew | Nicholas Long | Software Engineer |
Crew | Donnachada Daly | Supervising Animator |
Crew | Michael Min | Supervising Technical Director |
Crew | Mike Cutler | Systems Administrators & Support |
Crew | John Detke | Systems Administrators & Support |
Crew | Bart Feliciano | Systems Administrators & Support |
Crew | David Fent | Systems Administrators & Support |
Crew | Scott Kilty | Systems Administrators & Support |
Crew | Derek Mann | Systems Administrators & Support |
Crew | Rich Marco | Systems Administrators & Support |
Crew | John O'Sullivan | Systems Administrators & Support |
Crew | Daniel Rich | Systems Administrators & Support |
Crew | Stephen E. Ross | Systems Administrators & Support |
Crew | Tim Toll | Systems Administrators & Support |
Editing | Joe Monteleone | Assistant Editor |
Editing | Joe Campana | Associate Editor |
Editing | Christopher Knights | First Assistant Editor |
Editing | Craig Paulsen | First Assistant Editor |
Editing | Mo Henry | Negative Cutter |
Lighting | Cindy Hong | Lighting Artist |
Lighting | Robert Lurye | Lighting Artist |
Lighting | Michael McNeill | Lighting Artist |
Lighting | Frank Sabia Jr. | Lighting Artist |
Lighting | Matthieu Grospiron | Lighting Artist |
Production | Celeste Leger | Casting Assistant |
Production | Stephanie C. Lee | Production Coordinator |
Production | Jessie Carbonaro | Production Coordinator |
Production | Angela Ensele | Production Coordinator |
Production | Alison Fedrick | Production Coordinator |
Production | Robyn Mesher | Production Coordinator |
Production | Trinity Murphy | Production Coordinator |
Production | Hannibal P. Odisho | Production Coordinator |
Production | Jenny Wolfe-Binder | Production Coordinator |
Production | Kerry Shea | Production Manager |
Production | Tony Cosanella | Production Supervisor |
Production | Andre de Oliviera Araujo | Production Supervisor |
Production | Holly Edwards | Production Supervisor |
Production | Jennifer Freeman | Production Supervisor |
Production | Philip R. Garrett | Production Supervisor |
Production | Claudia Southmartin | Production Supervisor |
Production | Jenna Grigg Thomas | Production Supervisor |
Production | Ray Felipe | Script Researcher |
Sound | Gavin Greenaway | Conductor |
Sound | Nick Ingman | Conductor |
Sound | Dan O'Connell | Foley |
Sound | Jake Walker | Musician |
Sound | Walt Fowler | Orchestrator |
Sound | Rick Giovinazzo | Orchestrator |
Sound | Anna Behlmer | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Sound | Andy Nelson | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Sound | Reuben Simon | Sound Effects Editor |
Sound | David A. Whittaker | Sound Effects Editor |
Sound | Robert Renga | Sound Recordist |
Visual Effects | Jeremy Bernstein | Animation |
Visual Effects | Arnaud Berthier | Animation |
Visual Effects | Patrick Bonneau | Animation |
Visual Effects | Dave Burgess | Animation |
Visual Effects | Chung Chan | Animation |
Visual Effects | Kenny Chung | Animation |
Visual Effects | Melanie Cordan | Animation |
Visual Effects | Nick Craven | Animation |
Visual Effects | Cassidy Curtis | Animation |
Visual Effects | Lou Dellarosa | Animation |
Visual Effects | Eric Deuel | Animation |
Visual Effects | Bill Diaz | Animation |
Visual Effects | Roberto Espanto Domingo | Animation |
Visual Effects | Raffaella Filipponi | Animation |
Visual Effects | Antony Gray | Animation |
Visual Effects | Mariko Hoshi | Animation |
Visual Effects | James Hull | Animation |
Visual Effects | Ethan Hurd | Animation |
Visual Effects | Manu Ittina | Animation |
Visual Effects | Jakob Hjort Jensen | Animation |
Visual Effects | Jeffrey Joe | Animation |
Visual Effects | Heather Knight | Animation |
Visual Effects | Kevin Koch | Animation |
Visual Effects | Marek Kochout | Animation |
Visual Effects | Serguei Kouchnerov | Animation |
Visual Effects | Kevin MacLean | Animation |
Visual Effects | Sean Mahoney | Animation |
Visual Effects | Steve Mason | Animation |
Visual Effects | Bill E. Miller | Animation |
Visual Effects | Luci Napier | Animation |
Visual Effects | Fredrik Nilsson | Animation |
Visual Effects | Pres Romanillos | Animation |
Visual Effects | Carlos M. Rosas | Animation |
Visual Effects | Ben Rush | Animation |
Visual Effects | Jason Schleifer | Animation |
Visual Effects | Trish Schutz-Krause | Animation |
Visual Effects | Kevan Shorey | Animation |
Visual Effects | David Spivack | Animation |
Visual Effects | Theodore Anthony Lee Ty | Animation |
Visual Effects | Van Phan | Animation |
Visual Effects | Chris Wahl | Animation |
Visual Effects | Scott Wright | Animation |
Visual Effects | Nicolas Marlet | Character Designer |
Visual Effects | Philippe Tilikete | Character Designer |
Visual Effects | Craig Kellman | Lead Character Designer |
Visual Effects | John K. Dodelson | Modeling |
Visual Effects | Cristian Dumitriu | Modeling |
Visual Effects | Charlie Ramos | Modeling |
Visual Effects | Joshua West | Modeling |
Visual Effects | Julia Woolf | Visual Development |
Visual Effects | David Caeiro Cebrián | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | Nick Foster | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | Laurent Kermel | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | Andre LeBlanc | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | Scott Liedtka | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | William Opdyke | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | Paul Rademacher | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | Dug Stanat | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | Kevin Vassey | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | Andrew Wheeler | Visual Effects |
Visual Effects | Karen Smith | VFX Artist |
Visual Effects | Ellen Poon | VFX Artist |
Sound | Thomas Jones | Supervising ADR Editor |