George of the Jungle

Plot synopsis:
Five years after socialite Ursula Stanhope left civilization to marry George of the Jungle, George finds himself hard-pressed to fulfill the roles of jungle king, father, and husband. George's stress level increases when the "Mean Lion" challenges him for leadership of the jungle, and when Ursula's mother Beatrice teams up with Ursula's ex-fiancé, Lyle, in a plot to forcibly take away all that George holds most dear.
To do this, Beatrice invites Ursula, George, and George Junior to visit Las Vegas, which they accept. Throughout the visit, Beatrice and some of Ursula's fellow socialites try constantly to convince Ursula that George is unworthy of her affection. George, observing the threats but not his wife's resistance, begins to think himself unworthy of Ursula.
During the same time, George's mentor Ape has become a gambler and is in debt to several creditors, including Lyle. Upon discovering that Ape does not possess the exploitation rights of Ape Mountain, but George does, Lyle instead makes Ape work off his debts from the gambling for the next 17 years. He then engages Ape as a staged song performer and steals the deed to Ape Mountain from George's wardrobe. He thereafter sends two agents, Sally and Kowalski, to Ape Mountain, where they begin to demolish the jungle. The animals, terrified, turn to the Lion for guardianship.
Having failed to convince Ursula to divorce George, Beatrice hires a master of hypnosis to hypnotize Ursula into having no memory of having known George. The hypnotist brainwashes Ursula, giving her the idea that she had married Lyle. George, upon hearing from Beatrice that Ursula has left him, leaves his luck-charm with Ursula as she sleeps, then departs. He rescues Ape and leaves Las Vegas. Their departure triggers much commotion when the police force Bell 206 and the Animal Control Tranquilizer gun Agency join forces to recapture them.
In San Francisco, Lyle fails to persuade Ursula that he is worthy of her affection. Ursula's memory, meanwhile, is stimulated by events similar to those in which George had played a major part.
Later, George then tries to reconnect with Ursula and George Junior before leaving to rescue the jungle. He has trouble convincing her that he is her husband. Knocking her unconscious, George continues his journey back home with her, Ape, George Junior, and Rocky the kangaroo. In the jungle, George overthrows the Mean Lion and tries to convince the other animals to join him in stopping the diggers, but fails in gaining their lost trust in him until the diggers become an immediate threat. George defeats the bulldozers with the help of George Junior, Ape, Shep, Rocky and Tookie Bird.
Lyle's agents Sally and Kowalski come to destroy the tree house, only to be defeated by George and Rocky. George is unable to defeat the digging machine until his son joins the fray. Lyle and Beatrice arrive to pick up Ursula and George Junior. George manages to defeat both of them by hanging Lyle in a tree and Beatrice is kissed by Ape. Lyle is angered by his defeat and insults the narrator voice, who replies by pulling him from the story's world. George kisses Ursula, restoring her full memory of him. After reviving Ursula's friends in a similar fashion (for they had been hypnotized into forgetting George also), they subsequently renew their wedding vows and learn to find balance among George's duties.

Tags: violence, comic

Review:
But the predictable plot doesn't destroy the performances and the movie is peppered with some laugh out loud jokes.Of course the special effects are impressive - a talking ape, an elephant that thinks he's a dog - but it's the humans that steal the show.
Big screen adaptation of the much beloved cartoon character recounts how George (admirably played with affable density by Brendan Fraser) met his wife Ursula (played by the adorable Leslie Mann).
Very few actors can play characters who are essentially idiots without losing audience sympathy or credibility, but somehow Fraser manages to do it.Best gags include include the smart ass narrator, George getting hyped up on coffee, the women at Ursula's party fawning over George's deep spiritual connection with animals, George swinging into various objects (most notably the San Francisco bridge sequence) and George's climatic battle with the poachers."My noble kinsmen, thou has served me well.
It is definitely worth the price of rental or purchase, so long as you like silly/unrealistic circumstances, talking animals, etc.For those of you keeping score, this movie was much funnier than Dudley Do-Right, which had some similarities..
This movie it's very funny, Brendan Frasier is hilarious played George also his co-star Leslie is lovely.
Also, we don't forget the George's friends, Ape and Elephant that are responsible for very good moments in this movie.
There are few movies that i laugh so many times as "George of the Jungle".
This really seems like it was designed both for children and for adults who remember the original cartoon, and I feel that it capticated these ideas very well and also captured the hearts of teens who secretly love cartoons but didn't want to be caught in a cartoon-ish movie theatre.
I loved George of the Jungle first time I saw it, and it still remains one of the funniest movies I have ever seen.If you are the guy that cant laugh and watch a movie purely for entertainment, this movie is not for you, but if you can loose up and just laugh, this is one of the best.This movie is of the type that doesnt take anything seriously.
Unlike other "cracy comedy" movies like "The Naked Gun", GotJ have a very warm and child-friendly humor that even adults can laugh to.GotJ is in all a parody of tarzan.
We have the elephant that behaves like a humongous sized dog, the over intelligent talking gorilla, three swahilian carries that always mock the bad white guy (fiance with the woman).George himself is played by Brendan, mostly fame for his Indiana Jones Lookalike character in "The Mummy".
The narrator is the funniest character in the whole movie--he scolds the characters, adds smart-ass remarks and talks to the audience, reassuring them that "nobody dies in this story...they just get really big boo-boos!"  If you are the type of person who just likes a big laugh, and aren't too worried about what kind of elephant Shep is, you will like this one..
The movie was funny and Brendan Fraiser did a good job as playing George.
I thought everyone involved with this movie did a good job and should be watched for family entertainment..
The assembly line of classic 1960s television (we're talking my CHILDHOOD, here) into 1990s movies continues with Disney's "George of the Jungle." The original Jay Ward cartoon featured terrible puns, a smarmy narrator, and the dumber-than-driftwood Tarzan-wannabe George.The film version recreats all those elements with surprisingly good results.
Fraiser as George gets away with an awful lot of mugging, but he seems so innocent and unaffected that he puts it over.The SPFX are good in a Jumanji kind of way; movielovers with even half an eye open will be able to tell the CGI Shep from his real counterpart and the audioanimatronic Ape named Ape. But the HOW of this movie doesn't detract from the WHY...
Cleese makes an effective British APE, and SHEP's scenes are downright hilarious (watch him play fetch!).I also liked the way the movie kept the metahumor aspects of the series--here's a film that is clearly not afraid to make fun of itself.
Pages of explanatory dialogue from Ursula, for instance, are dispensed with in speeded-up fashion (a la "The Gods Must Be Crazy"), complete with chipmunk voice.By the final reel, everything degenerates into poop and pee jokes, which the prepubescent boys this movie is pitched at should find knee-slappingly hilarious.It's tough to be too tough on "G of the J." All you need is a snippet of that infectuous theme song (Boom, boom, boom-boom ba, BOOM boom...) and you know you're in for a good time.Sorta made me want to curl up in a big chair with my noo-noo and munch my way through a bowl of Quisp!.
"George of the Jungle" is one of the most enjoyable movies I've ever watched.
Usually when you turn comics or cartoons into live action something goes wrong but 'Jungle' is unique in that it has been transformed with immense success.This potentially cheesy movie made me laugh for its entire duration.
The comic-looking Leslie Mann with her girlish curls also masters a voice that conveys cartoonish qualities to the big screen and she is the perfect 'mate' to Frasier's George.This is a great movie because it is not just one character that you love, but it is the entire cast.
A lot of the comedy especially towards the end is slaps- stick but you would expect nothing less from a Tarzan wannabe who swings into trees, cakes, boats, vans, cars and anything else that's in his path.This is a great movie to watch with your family.
Barring the special effects (which are actually very good), there is little more in this film that might move it up the 'must watch holiday family flick' list.
As her boyfriend tries to track down the mysterious "white ape", George and Ursula get to know one another.Opening with a cartoon opening sequence and a wonderfully absurd and catchy theme song, the switch to live action doesn't affect the tone of the film at all as it remains as silly as the opening.
However to those that enter its own daffy universe, it is actually quite good fun  unrelentingly childish and silly, it does have a cartoony energy to it that somehow manages to work, producing a film that will please children and some adults..
George of the jungle 2 licked balls basically coz Brendan Frasier wasn't in it, he made that movie, well, and john cleese too, why has this film got such a low rating?
playing sandman......he was brilliant in that role, totally obnoxious....yet persistent....many little touches and one off lines make this one of my favourite films of all time...the voice over by a guy i swear sounds exactly like the guy who did it on the cartoon....excellent.
brendon frasier was born to play the role of "george", with just the right mixture of humor, stupidity, sincerity, and physical comedy that makes the character work.
And while the film is on solid ground in the jungle, the CROCODILE DUNDEE type second half is a retread.It should be said that Fraser and Mann make an appealing duo, and Greg Cruttwell and Abraham Benrubi (from ER) are good villains, but Thomas Haden Church quickly becomes tiresome.
This film captures the fun of that cartoon; Brendan Fraser was a great choice to play George, the rest of the cast is quite good (especially John Cleese doing the voice of the talking ape), and the special effects with the elephant was well done.
The movie really picks up when George leaves the jungle, and I like the idea of the characters being capable of talking to the narrator.
The story is entertaining and there are a few places for an adult to find the film funny, but overall, it's definitely for kids..
George of the Jungle is a feel good movie.
Brendon Fraser has the difficult task of translating the cartoon character George of the Jungle into a flesh and blood man who has an intelligence somewhat lower than the apes who reared him.
I never really watched the George of the Jungle cartoon, but I watched this movie a lot when I was younger.
I must say that George of the Jungle is a Pretty Good Movie.
Brendan Fraser gave an excellent performance as a man named George who grows up in the jungle after being separated from his family from a plane accident when he was a baby.
George of the Jungle is a good movie that anyone can enjoy!
Brendan Fraser is great as George.Of cause being a Disney movie it has the basic love story, bad guys and toilet humour...
and young at the same time.As I type this review I remember more and more scenes from the movie and it makes me feel like watching it again.
With his friends an ape named Ape (John Cleese) and his pet dog Shep, they go on an adventure when Ursula takes George to the big city in order to escape from her fiancé Lyle (Thomas Haden Church).This is a movie that, unlike Inspector Gadget two years later, stays true to the original cartoon, even the Never Aruge With The Narrator section (which I have to give kudos to Keith Scott for providing the voice of the Narrator).
The translation from cartoon to real-life action succeeded because the spirit of the original, the sense of fun (without taking itself too seriously) - and even the theme music - was maintained.Movies based on popular television series made a generation ago almost always flop.
I've seen a number of other films ( like ' Still breathing ' or ' Blast from the past') in which Brendan Fraser is really great, so why on earth did he need to accept a role in which the only thing he seems to be doing is smiling stupidly, flying around in a jaguar-print bikini and making irritating attempts at being the funniest guy in the jungle ?And not to mention the 'special effects'.....fake trees, silly puppet lions, and actors in shabby gorilla-outfits.............
George of the Jungle is hands down the worst movie of all times.
Here you have it all rolled into one: incredibly bad acting, yawnfully unstimulating story, flat characters, hollow jokes, cheap sets, budget television cinematography, and half-hearted stunts.This movie doesn't offer any of the appeal of the original cartoon which was funny and charming for what it was.
From videos to fast-food kid meals, we're served up a dish of slop that used to be a tasty confection of light entertainment in it's original form.Watching Brendan Fraser (who's budding career was luckily not destroyed by this movie) and Leslie Mann do the jungle dance to an uninspired Disney tune was terribly painful.
The original George of the Jungle cartoons were pretty bad and it's a shame that this film didn't do much to improve on this.
And as far as the George character went, I thought that Brendan Fraser was clearly miscast for his part and his performance unbelievably irritating, to boot.When George arrived in the "civilized" world, that certainly made his character look even more stupid than ever.If you ask me - This $55 million, live-action cartoon tried way-way too hard to be funny, but regardless of all of its zany, slapstick comedy, it only succeeded in falling flat on its face for the most part.Based on the characters from a very mediocre TV cartoon series from 1967, George Of The Jungle was strictly geared for an audience that has very low expectations about what encourages them to laugh..
This is a great slapstick comedy film (and to think I used to think Hollywood had forgotten how to do these!); and I haven't even seen the original cartoon.Brendan Frazer has such an amazing sense of comic timing it's uncanny.
Also, the elephant who acts and thinks he is a dog, Shemp is pure Disney fun.Thomas Haden Church plays the seemingly bad guy Lyle Van de Groot, and Leslie Mann plays Ursula Stanhope, the good girl.
They went into the jungle as a couple, but Ursula and George leave together.A love story like Tarzan & Jane!.
The kids in the house are sure to have a good time and adults who do not ask for too much and just want to have fun will enjoy it too.
Made to play and laugh a lot, the film is full of funny moments and even the bad guy, Lyle Van de Groot (played by Thomas Haden Church) is the most humorous I've seen, even in films of this kind.The involvement of actors is very good, but the spotlight go to Brendan Fraser, who played the main character in an absolutely brilliantly.
The movie does a great job of depicting a nice and believable love between George and Ursula.
At the same time, it shows great friendship between George and his friends Ape, Tooki his toucan messenger, and Shep his elephant dog.Third, the characters and the performances from the actors playing them are spot on.
First of all, we have the naive but lovable George played in a hilarious performance by Brendan Fraser, the beautiful and sweet Ursula played by Leslie Mann, the shady egotistical and idiotic villain of the movie Lyle played by Thomas Haden Church, Ursula's snooty and not-so approving mother played perfectly by Holland Taylor, and last but not least: George's hilarious intelligent and sometimes sarcastic friend An Ape Named Ape voiced by John Cleese.Fourth, the backgrounds and scenery are some of the best you'll ever see from the jungle to the waterfalls and rivers to the savannas.With all the things about the movie that are great, are there any negatives about the movie?
Brendon Fraser's performance as George was wonderful, and this movie also has John Cleeese, and Thomas Haden Church.
Sam Weisman should have been banned from Hollywood for his directorial work on this picture, but I suppose he redeemed himself, six years later, with Dickie Roberts, Former Child Star.This opinion is coming from a reviewer whose #1 comedy of all time is Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls, so that should tell you just how bad George of the Jungle is: There is only one joke in the movie, and it is duplicated relentlessly: The protagonist swings on a "rope or vine" into a tree.
I purposely avoided GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE many times, with thoughts that the film will be loved by children and loathed by anyone above its age-limit.
GEORGE OF THE JUNGLE was indeed a movie made for kids, and they'll loved it, yet somehow, I was surprised how decent the film was.
Brendan Fraser is acting like a total idiot, but is actually appropriate as the character of George, a man raised by apes in the uncharted jungles of Africa, so said by the film's narrator which is probably the film's funniest character.
I was eleven years old at the time, and didn't know that "George of the Jungle" was based on a 1960s cartoon series of the same name, but I still loved the film!
This movie does have its positive aspects, such as performances from certain cast members, especially the legendary John Cleese as An Ape Named "Ape" (you can always recognize his voice), and some parts of the film may be somewhat suspenseful.I have never seen any episodes of the original 1960s "George of the Jungle" cartoon series, so I can't say how much resemblance this 1990s movie has to it, nor can I say what fans of the cartoon would generally think of it.
However, focusing on the movie, this 1997 live action Disney flick is definitely more for kids, who could find it very funny (like I once did).
Great Kids movie but fun for adults as well.
from the jungle guides to George himself all the characters out together a very good movie.
George of the jungle could have been a quite good Childrens movie if the editors or script writers hadn't decided to replay the same jokes over and over and over again in the film.
So for ages 13+ I would not recommend it, I'd rate it barely average for such an audience.Fraser (George of the J.) is a good well-descend and talented actor but this movie does make me a little less fond of his performances.Now if you're going to watch this with 'kids' (preferably under the age of 11) this movie may very well please them.
And now, I just sat through George of the Jungle and I sat amazed.I had thought it was some lame film like Dudley Do-Right, which I attempted to watch a while back.
Thomas Haden Church as Lyle Van de Groot was just a smart choice because he played a character we all hated Keith Scott was brilliant as The Narrator and he help made the film a good one to watch.
Even his jokes will make you laughThe film does have a good story to help with the film and there is some interesting character story telling through the film that is better if you watch the film to understand more of what I meanGeorge Of The Jungle feature some of the most creative comedy bits you can ever have in a family film while it's PG rating it still a funny film that everyone in the film can watchTrust me and watch this movie you'll be glad you didI give George Of The Jungle an 8 out of 10.
'George of the jungle'is a silly movie,but we can have some laughs.
When I was young this used to be quite a funny Walt Disney Pictures live action comedy about a young boy dropped in the jungle and becomes like a Tarzan type character.
Brendan Fraser plays George, the King of the Jungle and Leslie Mann as Ursula Stanhope is the woman who "finds" and takes him to the city to try and become like a normal man.