Still trying to find their way back to their cherished Central Park Zoo in New York, our quartet of true friends--Alex the lion; Marty the zebra; Melman the giraffe; and Gloria the hippopotamus--decide to take a detour through the cosmopolitan Monte Carlo. But there, with the determined animal-control officer, Chantel DuBois, hot on their heels, the team has other choice but to seek shelter in a traveling circus; the home of mysterious tiger Vitaly, and kind jaguar Gia. However, can Europe's most wanted fugitives survive the dangerous world of the circus?—Nick Riganas