Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa (2008)

Ben Stiller: Alex

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• Alex : Marty, it looks like this is it! I just want you to know, you're a one in a million friend!

  Marty : Thanks, Alex! You are a true friend!

  Alex : And I'm sure you won't mind when I tell you...

  Marty : What? Tell me what?

  Alex : I broke your iPod!

  Marty : What?

  Alex : The buttons were so small! It made me mad!

  Marty : The horror!

  Alex : It was an accident!

  Marty : I'm gonna kill you!

• Nana : I know you!

  Alex : You!

  Nana : It's the bad kitty!

• Alex : [Dancing as he speaks]  How! Me and my friends fly... fly, on great metal bird... then we plummet...

  [whistles] 

  Alex : Boom! Crash here. We offer only happiness and good greetings.

  Hippo Girlfriend : Is he dancing about a plane crash?

  Alex : Yeah, we are. Sorry.

• Julien : [pops out from a cake]  Hey, freaks! You will be glad to learn that I am coming with you!

  Alex : Oh ho ho, no, thank you.

  Julien : Oh, *yes*, thank you. It's *my* plane!

• Alex : I wanna prove to my dad that I'm a *real* lion.

  Marty : As opposed, to a *chocolate* lion!

• Marty : That is definitely not crackalackin'.

  Alex : It is lackin' in the crackin', my friend.

• Skipper : [to Alex]  You! Pretty boy! Why don't you and your friends dig a latrine, maybe find water.

  Alex : Hold on, hold on a second. Who made you... king of the plane wreck?

  Skipper : 'Scuse me?

  [Rico pulls out and deploys a switchblade] 

• Alex : She's got a gun! Let's get out while we can! Pass it on!

  [monkeys chain whisper the message up to the plane] 

  Mason : He said, 'Let's have some fun and take out the dam. Basset hound'.

• Alex : I like to move it, move it!

  Gloria : He likes to move it, move it!

  Marty : She likes to move it, move it!

  Melman : We like to...?

  Lemurs : Move it!

• Alex : Slow down! You're gonna kill us! There's got to be another way! Pass it on!

  [the monkey chain relays the message up to the plane] 

  Mason : Don't slow down. Kill us. It's the only way. Basset Hound!

  Skipper : The best sacrifice is the one made by others.

  [Nana shoots through the plane's windshield and blows off the bobblehead doll's head] 

  Skipper : Doll! MEDIC!

  [Private gets out the duct tape] 

• Gloria : Is this place great or what?

  Alex : I'd go with "or what".

• Alex : If you're ever in Manhattan, feel free to call first.

  [Sees two lemurs picking each other's noses and eating the boogers] 

  Alex : Seriously though, call, okay?

• Alex : Hey! Happy Slappers! Is there any reason to celebrate? Look at the plane!

  Skipper : We'll fix it.

  Alex : Fix it? How you gonna fix this?

  Skipper : Grit, spit

  [Private spits] 

  Skipper : and a whole lotta duct tape.

  [Rico pulls out a roll of duct tape] 

  Skipper : We should be up and running in say...

  [Kowalski shows him an abacus] 

  Skipper : six to nine months.

  Alex : Sixty-nine months?

  Skipper : No, six *to* nine months.

• Zuba : Good luck, Alakay.

  Alex : Were we come from, we say "break a leg".

  Zuba : That's my boy!

• Zuba : Alakay, look out!

  Alex : [Fighting Teetsi]  No, dad! It's 'Hop, Shuffle,Ball Change, Hip Swish, Turn Around!'!

  [Gets sucker punched in the face by Teetsi] 

• Alex : Did I... did I win?

  Zuba : Oh. No, son. I mean how could this happen? You told us you were a king. And a king does not get beat.

  Alex : Well, I am a king. I'm the... I'm the King of New York. It's-it's my stage name. I'm like, you know, it's- for when I perform.

  Zuba : Perform?

• Zuba : What's going on here? What's all this hubbub?

  Elephant : They say their from off the reserve.

  Zuba : That's impossible. Only people come from off the reserve.

  Alex : You look familiar. Do I know you from...?

  Zuba : How could you possibly survive the hunters?

  Gloria : Hunters? We didn't... I mean we didn't see any hunters.

• Zuba : What are you looking at?

  Alex : Me? Nothing.

  Zuba : This watering hole doesn't need any more mouths to feed. So just skedaddle back to wherever you came from.

  Alex : Ok. Well, is there maybe a manager that I can talk to?

  Zuba : Oh. I see. You're here to challenge me!

  Alex : What? No! No. No.

  Zuba : Well, that's what it started to look like to me!

  Mom : Zuba! Wait.

  Zuba : Doggone, woman. I'm trying to take care of my business...

  Mom : Yeah, yeah, Zuba. Hold on. Alakay? Is that you?

  [grabs Alex's paw] 

  Alex : No it's Alex. Ix like New York Knicks.

  Mom : [stunned by the birthmark]  Zuba, look!

  Alex : [Zuba looks at the birthmark]  Oh. I've always had that. The vet checked it out. It's really... it's kind of a beauty spot, really.

• Zuba : [Looking at Alex's birthmark]  A mark.

  Alex : All right, this is a little weird.

  Zuba : Honey, he's come home.

  Alex : What?

  Zuba : [shows his birthmark]  You've come home.

  Alex : [as he looks at both birthmarks]  Whoa.

  Zuba : Son.

  [pause] 

  Alex : Dad.

  [Zuba nods] 

  Alex : Mom and Dad? Mom and Dad! Mom and Dad! It's my Mom and Dad! I got a mom and dad!

  [they form a group hug] 

  Mom : Our baby's alive!

  Marty : Dad!

• Gloria : [as they watch the sunset]  Beautiful, isn't it?

  Melman : Yeah.

  Marty : It's amazing.

  Alex : Guys... this is where we belong.

• Mom : [pulls out small fabric blanket]  You used to call this foofie.

  Alex : Foofie?

  [takes a whiff] 

  Alex : Foofie.

  Zuba : Oh. He doesn't want that thing.

  Alex : [Zuba tempts to take it from Alex but he pulls back like tug a war]  This is my foofie!

  [pause] 

  Mom : Zuba, you better give him his foofie.

• Zuba : [after Zuba put Makunga in charge] 

  Zuba : You should have told us, son! You should have told us that you weren't a real king!

  Alex : You never told me I'd have to fight anybody!

  Zuba : What did you expect, son?

  Alex : I don't know! Maybe a little fatherly advice like, "Hey, son, it's a fight!"

  Zuba : You're a lion aren't you?

  Alex : But I never fought another lion!

  Zuba : No, I guess not. You dance!

  Alex : And other stuff! The point is your pal, Makunga, set me up back there! I mean, none of this would have happened...

  Zuba : If you were a real lion.

  Mom : Zuba!

  Zuba : Yeah, I said it!

  Alex : A real lion. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

  [leaves]