The sudden appearance of many TODAY show visitors Tuesday wearing multi-colored wigs could only signal one thing: the return of the "Afro Circus" popularized in "Madagascar 3" -- and of Chris Rock, ...

Chris Rock wanted to be the ‘king of the jungle’ when he first started Madagascar. Rock is getting more comfortable with his role as Marty the zebra in Madagascar 3, the third film in the popular ...

If there’s a chill in the air, then Christmas must be in peril. So it goes in the world of animated holiday specials. This time around, it’s the Central Park Zoo denizens of the “Madagascar” films who ...

With his helium falsetto and excitable speech patterns, standup comedy legend Chris Rock has a voice made for cartoons. He has played a hamster in “Dr. Dolittle,” a white blood cell in “Osmosis Jones, ...

Presenting the Best Animated Film category at this year’s Academy Awards, Chris Rock brought the house down with a bit about voicing cartoon characters being “the easiest job in the world.” The ...

Rated PG. 93 minutes. At area theaters starting Friday, June 8 in 2-D and 3-D. From time to time the improbable occurs: A sequel outdoes its original. It doesn’t happen so often that critics are ...

Madagascar: Animation. Starring Chris Rock, Ben Stiller, Jada Pinkett Smith and David Schwimmer. Directed by Eric Darnell and Tom McGrath. (PG. 80 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) "Madagascar" is an ...