Gay lion from madagascar 2
Alex the Lion is gay…
Plus...
Alex totally freaks out when Marty escapes from the zoo, and even if it’s risky, he is willing to chase him because he couldn’t think about the zoo, his personal paradise where he was THE celestial body, without his finest friend.
Look how he hugs him just before freaking the hell out because he thought he would have never seen him again (Alex, your shrink from of abandonment is showing)!
Even if he’s angry with him, Marty is always the most vital thing.
First he’s arguing with him because they will be transferred and the next scene he is screaming desperately his name for (what he thinks) the last hour before wandering alone on the ocean.
And yes, Alex feels a little resentment for Marty because he is no longer in NY and because he thinks Marty didn’t understand the reason why he decided to chase him for a excellent part of the movie, but I won’t forget that semi-reconciliation on the beach where they are literally running into each other before remembering why they are on that beach <3
Later they reconcile, travel wild together, but then there’s Alex’s primal insticts awakening (read above my first reblog) and when Alex realizes it, he decides t
Okay, weird flex, but ... has nobody but me ever thought that Madagascar 2 definitely passes as one massive coming out metaphor?
For starters, we hold Alex.
And we have some proof about him.
The (sure, stereotypical, but this movie came out in 2008) truth that he dances where others brawl.
That fact that he'd rather be on "Broadway", creature swooned over by his fans, then on the plains wrestling.
The truth that he's 'soft' and in handle with his emotions where others are not.
The fact that (in this production at least) he has no female love interest.
The reality that he's cast out wearing a literal fucking fruit crown
When, yeah. You guessed it.
Alex, in my perspective, can definitely move through as an LGBT metaphor here. His family (or rather, his father - important, albeit once again stereotypical distinction) rejects him for being different. He is branded with a literal, physical slur and kicked out from his home.
At the finish, he is embraced once again, but the movie makes it very distinct that he is being embraced for who he is and that he will not alter anything about himself simply for the sake of this acceptance - he is embrace
MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA
The problem I always had with DreamWorks Animation’s movies was that they were emotionally lifeless. Compared to their contemporaries, DWA’s films lacked any depth, even by cartoon standards. Oh, there were pixels… pixelating in the right places, appropriately crescendo-laden musical scores, and dialogue straight out of a Deepak Chopra book, but you knew it had been done improved before. The great ‘toon creators, from Walt to Warner to Miyazaki to Pixar, all somehow managed to portray their creations’ humanity convincingly.
I’m happy to speak “Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa,” reverses this trend. Not because of any great leap forward in technique, but because in Alex the Lion (Ben Stiller) and Marty the Zebra (Chris Rock), we finally have the first unabashedly gay characters in a major Hollywood animated feature.
The clues weren’t as apparent in the first movie, mostly because it wasn’t that good; there’s not much story to speak of, far too much emphasis on the frankly uninteresting main cast (the penguins, chimps, and lemurs all deserved to have their own feature before this sequel was even greenlighted), and one could argue that Alex and Marty’s effemin
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
I loved this film, plain and simple. The animation is splendid, the action is thrilling, the plot is far more complex than the first, and it's flat out a funnier film, too.
The cast of zoo mates—Alex the Lion, Marty the Zebra, Melman the Giraffe, and Gloria the Hippo—is back, this time trying to return to Recent York City with the help of their penguin friends, who have attempted to fix the plane they found in the first film. The flight does actually get off ground, but then returns to the ground after everything falls apart, crashing them into the middle of the African plains.
They stumble onto an African Wildlife Preserve (which Melman is 40% positive is San Diego), and assemble hundreds of different creatures from their own actual species, giving them an opportunity to interact for the first time with animals just like them.
This has it's advantages (Gloria is looking for a man to settle down with), but it also brings about disadvantages and discouragements (the pack of Zebras leaves Marty feeling kinda ordinary and not unique at all). Alex is forced to demonstrate himself to the relax of the lions, which winds up being far more difficult for a lion