I know it's popular to hate it, but I'll admit it: I had a lot of fun watching Madagascar. It's not a Pixar movie, but lighten up folks, it's funny.

Recently Ben Stiller talked to the great folks over at Coming Soon about the work he's doing on the sequel, Madgascar 2. He tells them that he'll start recording his part soon, and as long as he was talking he went ahead and spilled the details on the plot for the second film.

According to Stiller, all the animals from the first film get off Madagascar in the downed airplane stuck in the trees from the first movie. They crash in Africa, and Stiller's lion character Alex gets to know his relatives.

Though work has started, Madagascar 2 is still a very long way off. DreamWorks isn't planning to release it until November 7 of 2008.