They have one shot to get back home.

Animal pals Alex, Marty, Melman, and Gloria are still trying to make it back to New York's Central Park Zoo. They are forced to take a detour to Europe to find the penguins and chimps who broke the bank at a Monte Carlo casino. When French animal-control officer Capitaine Chantel DuBois picks up their scent, Alex and company are forced to hide out in a traveling circus.
In Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic circus”. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing identity, belonging, performance, exploitation, community.
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
Paulie (1998)E8/E10 · belonging, exploitation
The Jungle Book (2016)E8/E9/E10 · belonging, identity
The Lorax (2012)E8/E9/E10 · community, exploitation
Kung Fu Panda 3 (2016)E8/E9/E10 · community, identity
Chicken Run (2000)E8/E9/E10 · community, exploitation
Alvin and the Chipmunks (2007)E8/E9/E10 · exploitation, identityOther films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Stuart Little 3: Call of the Wild (2005)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal adventure
The Secret Life of Pets (2016)consciousness in animals · pet metropolis
Bolt (2008)consciousness in animals · animal‑star world
James and the Giant Peach (1996)consciousness in animals · insect society
Open Season (2006)consciousness in animals · forest society
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic North PoleThe same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
The Smurfs 2 (2013)consciousness in monsters · belonging, community
Ralph Breaks the Internet (2018)consciousness in machines · belonging, exploitation
Tinker Bell (2008)consciousness in monsters · belonging, community
Sneaks (2025)consciousness in objects · belonging, exploitation
Toy Story 2 (1999)consciousness in objects · belonging, identity
Cars (2006)consciousness in machines · community, identity