The Wilds of Madagascar

I was surfing familiar blogs when I ran across this. It turns out that a friend from years gone by is now, like I am, an Eddie Izzard-ite. Not a major surprise there. Not a leap of character, that. In his blog, he alerts us to the fact that the Edster is voicing a character in the upcoming Disney movie The Wild. Hey. Sweet. Good to know. But should you follow his link to IMDb, you would read this plot outline for the movie: "A teenage lion is accidentally shipped from the New York Zoo to Africa. Now running free, his zoo pals must put aside their differences to help bring him back."

Does this sound familiar to anyone else?


"When one of the animals [from New York's Central Park Zoo] goes missing from his cage, the other three break free to look for him, only to find themselves reunited ... on a ship en route to Africa. ... the friends, who have all been raised in captivity, learn first-hand what life can be like in the wild."

Yeah, yeah, you're right: it's a ZEBRA that gets shipped to Africa with friends who've gone searching for him in this movie. That makes all the difference.

The Wild has Eddie Izzard, but will it have plotting penguins and dancing lemurs, I ask you?