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LOS ANGELES, CA – MARCH 28: Actress Megan Fox arrives at Nickelodeon’s 2009 Kids’ Choice Awards at UCLA’s Pauley Pavilion on March 28, 2009 in Westwood, California. (Photo by Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

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Nickelodeon’s 22nd annual Kids’ Choice Awards was on last night, and host Dwayne Johnson made quite the entrance, sailing in on a zip line and landing smack dab center stage, a.k.a. the Slime Pyramid. Whoever thought up the whole slime theme for these awards knew what they were doing!

A few highlights:

Favorite TV Show: Nick’s "iCarly," starring Miranda Cosgrove.

Favorite Animated Voice: Jack Black, for voicing the title role in Dreamworks’ "Kung Fu Panda." He arrived onstage in a motorcycle sidecar, saying "Skadoosh! I am touched, I am moved, I am pumped, and I am jazzed. I promise you will try my hardest to make ‘Kung Fu Panda 2′ even more awesome than that first one."

Favorite Movie Actor: Will Smith

Favorite Actress: Vanessa Hudgens, who thanked her little sister Stella "for asking all her friends at school to vote."

Favorite Movie: "High School Musical 3"

Favorite Animated Movie: "Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa"

Favorite Female Singer: Miley Cyrus, who said, "I really thought I was going to lose. Unlike any other awards show, it’s all because of you guys, so thank you guys so much."

Favorite Male Singer: Jesse McCartney

Favorite Song: Beyonce’s "Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It)"

Favorite Book: Stephenie Meyer’s "Twilight" series

Other winners included Dylan Sprouse (TV actor), Selena Gomez (TV actress), Peyton Manning (male athlete), Candace Parker (female athlete), "American Idol" (reality show), "SpongeBob SquarePants" (cartoon) and Guitar Hero World Tour (video game).

Source: The Hollywood Reporter

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"Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa" – Blu-ray Bonus Features:

• Filmmakers’ Commentary
• It’s A Family Affair: The Cast of ESCAPE 2 AFRICA (HD)
• The Making of ESCAPE 2 AFRICA (HD)
• Crash Landing (HD)
• African Adventure (HD)
• Jambo Jambo: Swahili Speak (HD)
• The Bronx Zoo: Madagascar (HD)
• Alex’s Dance Off (HD)
• Test Flight of Air Penguin Game (HD)
• The Heart of a Lion (HD) – BD-LIVE
• MADAGASCAR: ESCAPE 2 AFRICA Activision Game Trailer

Music Videos:

• "Move It, Move It" (HD)
• “Big and Chunky” (HD)
• “She Loves Me” (HD)
• “The Traveling Song” (HD)

THE PENGUINS OF MADAGASCAR

• “Popcorn Panic”
• “Gone in a Flash”

Penguin Easter Eggs

• Move It, Move It
• Hock Shop
• Julien’s Birthday
• Tug of War
• Fully Armed
• No Thanks, I’m Stuffed

Blu-ray Exclusive Content

• The Animators’ Corner (HD)
• Trivia Track (HD)

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Space Buddies.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno. Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks play broke roommates who dream up a scheme to get out of debt: make a porno movie. Oh, stop. Don’t tell me the idea never occurred to you. Directed by Kevin Smith. Rated R. [Official Site]

The Secret Life of Bees. Queen Latifah and Dakota Fanning headline this ensemble movie about a girl who’s taken in by three sisters. Based on the book by Sue Monk Kidd. Rated PG-13. [Official Site]

Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa [Blu-ray]. The quartet of zoo animals return and this time, they’re in Africa discovering their roots. Rated PG. [Film Gecko Review] [Official Site]

Nick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Michael Cera and Kat Dennings play two high-schoolers who fall in love while searching for a legendary band’s secret show one night. Not as good as I hoped it would be. Rated PG-13. [Film Gecko Review] [Official Site]

Bottle Shock. Set in 1976, this movie stars Bill Pullman, Chris Pine, and Alan Rickman. It follows the battle between California’s wineries and their French counterparts. Rated PG-13. [Official Site]

Image: Space Buddies, Walt Disney Home Video, 2009

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1. Quantum of Solace, $67.52M
2. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, $35.01M
3. Role Models, $11.15M
4. High School Musical 3: Senior Year, $5.65M
5. Changeling, $4.25M
6. Zack and Miri Make a Porno, $3.14M
7. Soul Men, $2.35M
8. The Secret Life of Bees, $2.33M
9. Saw V, $1.76M
10. Beverly Hills Chihuahua, $1.57M

Image: Quantum of Solace, Sony Pictures, 2008

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“Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa” is Too.Much.Fun! I love that they didn’t make us wait for the “Move it, Move It” song, and jumped right into it at the beginning. My kids and I loved everything about it from beginning to end. We all agreed that it’s even better than the first movie. And a third movie is on the way for 2011, so we’ve got that to look forward to.

All the originals are back — Alex the lion (voiced by Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (Chris Rock), Melman the giraffe (David Schwimmer), and Gloria the hippo (Jada Pinkett Smith). It begins on the distant shores of Madagascar, where we last left our fun-loving group. They’ve finally figured out a way to get back to New York City and their beloved Central Park Zoo. The resourceful penguins have repaired a dilapidated WWII plane and turned it into Air Penguin.

But they’re barely in the air when the plane crash-lands in the African savannah. The kicker is that it turns out to be Alex’s former stomping grounds. We learn that he began life as a cub here, until poachers grabbed him while his father, Zuba (Bernie Mac) was fending off an attack by a foe, Makunga (Alec Baldwin).

Alex’s parents are thrilled to see him, even putting him up in the room they’ve kept with his things all these years. But Makunga quickly manages to get him banished to the wilderness, thanks to Alex’s bumbling of a rite of passage. He thinks it involves dancing, not fighting!

Meanwhile, Gloria finds interest in a group of hippos there, including a certain male hippo, Moto Moto (will.i.am, whose deep voice is like the Barry White of Hippo-World). Melman wrestles with his jealousy over Gloria’s situation, and Marty is dismayed to learn that every other zebra is his exact replica, right down to the voice!

There are so many pop culture references and funny sequences, it’s impossible to name them all. But here are a few highlights:

• An Air Penguin crewman tries to handle a screwdriver, saying “Darn you Darwin!” when the tool slips from his flipper.
• Alex the dancing lion, expertly doing Jerome Robbins’ choreography from “West Side Story” in a fight scene with a ferocious lion.
• The hot-tub love scene between beautifully plump hippos Gloria and Moto Moto.
• A funny storyline involving a group of tourists, including one feisty grandma-type who has no qualms about taking down anyone who gets in her way.
• The manic and musically inventive Julien (Sacha Baron Cohen), singing Tina Turner’s “Private Dancer” as a ballad.
• Skipper the penguin, putting a hula doll on the dashboard of his airplane control panel, then falling in love with the figurine.

Even though these bits will probably go over the heads of most kids, they’re still very funny, even if you don’t get the references. “Madagascar 2″ is one of those movies to be enjoyed by both kids and adults.

Images: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, DreamWorks Distribution, 2008

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