Gay lion from madagascar
the penguins are psychotic — Being an adult is thinking about Madagascar 2:...
Being an adult is thinking about Madagascar 2: Escape 2 Africa out of nowhere and realizing you can just fucking watch it. You can unearth through the dvd shelf and disburse your Saturday afternoon rewatching underrated masterpiece Madagascar 2: Evade 2 Africa and no one can stop you or needs to donate you permission. Prefer literally I reflection ‘huh did they literally do an evil uncle lion like lion king? Did they literally just copy it?’ Then I idea ‘no I don’t think he was related’ then ‘they accidentally made a really excellent lgbtq+ allegory with Marty and Alex by having their affair plot lines solely revolve around each other. Which I guess is produce gloria’s the only existing female animal and they don’t really have period to introduce characters not related to the lion-pride or bizarre (yet oddly wholesome??) hippo-giraffe-romance plot because all the extra time goes to Maurice and Julian fucking around and finding out and the penguins bossing the monkeys around. And it’s so funny because like it’s appreciate they realized they’d made 2 m
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 top friend.
Look how he hugs him just before freaking the hell out because he thought he would have never seen him again (Alex, your dread of abandonment is showing)!
Even if he’s angry with him, Marty is always the most key 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 moment 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 nice 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, proceed wild together, but then there’s Alex’s primal insticts awakening (read above my first reblog) and when Alex realizes it, he decides t
Likely to write some stuff — Just hear me out. I am watching Madagascar Escape...
Just hear me out. I am watching Madagascar Escape 2 Africa with my kids and the more I see, the more I recognize that Alex the Lion is gay. I am typing this and pausing the movie much to the annoyance of my kids to get the exact quotes from the movie.
Firstly, the movie starts with Little Alakay and Zuba play fighting in order to develop Alex’s hunting skills. But small Alakay-Alex would rather boogie and admire the essence around him. Zuba tells him that you are a
‘strange kid, strange one for sure’.
Originally posted by dramaticallyfree
Fast forward, Alex, Melmon, Gloria and Marty are in Africa. In a scheme to oust Zuba as alpha lion, Makunga the lion insists that Alex complete a rite of passage. Alex gets badly beaten as he dances instead of fighting during the rites of passage challenge. Then he is shown sitting with Melmon and Marty, and his exact words to them are:
My dad thinks I am a total loser. I’ve ruined my parents lives.
It is during this scene that my brain puts the two-and-two together. Many children contain off telling their parents about being lgbtqia+ becau
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 state “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