Animal rescuers go undercover in circus

One-hit wonders, Reel 2 Real, struck gold in Europe with the single I Like to Move It in 1993. But they probably didn't foresee the song's resurgence in popularity in 2005 thanks to four zoo animals.

The Madagascar franchise popularised - even etched into animation history - the hook, and created a phenomenon after the Zoosters began to boogie to the reggae-dance beat. Now Alex and company are back for Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted - and, yes, they still like to 'move it, move it'.

Madagascar 3 picks up where its predecessor ended. Operation Penguin Extraction was meant to be simple: swoop into Monte Carlo Casino and hijack the penguins, so Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), and Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith), could go back to New York's Central Park Zoo.

But the Zoosters don't bargain on crazed French animal control officer, Chantel Dubois (Frances McDormand) who is determined to hang Alex's head on her trophy wall.

'[This] is the moment she has been waiting for,' says co-director Conrad Vernon. 'She wants to prove to herself that she's more than just someone who hunts small game - that she can hunt a lion.'

Soon the gang is on the run in Europe and, after narrowly escaping Dubois' clutches, they try to hide out by joining a circus troupe that may be heading to New York.