Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie

Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie is a 2017 American animated television film based on the Nickelodeon series Hey Arnold!, which was created by Craig Bartlett and originally aired from 1996 to 2004. It follows the 2002 film Hey Arnold!: The Movie and the two-part Hey Arnold! episode "The Journal".
The film serves as either the definitive series finale or a prelude to a potential revival. It answered questions left after the original run ended, including the whereabouts of Arnold's missing parents. It originally aired in the United States on November 24, 2017, on Nickelodeon, while also being simulcast on Nicktoons and TeenNick. In 2018, it won an Emmy for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation.
==Plot==
The film starts off in a dream where Arnold finds his parents in some Aztec ruins in the Amazon Jungles, but they leave him for another mission with their old friend, Eduardo. He wakes up on the last day of school and he is late that he quickly feeds his pig, Abner, some bacon and then leaves for school. At the Patakis' defunct Big Bob's Beepers store, which the Patakis now live in instead of their apartment, Helga tells her dad that she is going to school, but Big Bob tells her to come back later and help them sort some beepers, much to her chagrin due to the fact that beepers are now defunct to the world. At PS. 118, Mr. Simmons then makes his announcement in class that a contest is being held for a class trip to San Lorenzo which is due in a week. Seeing this as his opportunity to find his parents, Miles and Stella, who disappeared years ago going there, Arnold and his best friend Gerald plan to make a humanitarian video during the summer to win the trip for their class. They try to record themselves making a home out of junk for one of their friends, the eccentric Monkeyman, but that backfires as homeless people dismantle it, leaving Arnold heartbroken.
Helga, with her knowledge of her secret long-lasting crush on Arnold, uses recorded footage showing Arnold's good deeds over the years to make a video for the contest, and everyone in town surprises Arnold with it. Mr. Simmons then reveals to everyone that Arnold's video won the contest and he, his classmates and Helga's older sister, Olga, who is chaperoning for Helga, get a plane ride to San Lorenzo. But the night before leaving for San Lorenzo, Arnold's grandfather, Phil, not only gives Arnold a stapler for defense in case of danger, but also makes him promise to focus on the trip instead of just looking for his parents.
While on the plane, Abner stows away in Arnold's backpack. When everyone arrives in San Lorenzo, they are greeted at a dock by Eduardo. Onboard his ship, Eduardo privately warns Arnold of the dangers the jungle has to offer and gives him an amulet said to lead them to the residents of the lost city of San Lorenzo, the "Green-Eyed People." He even persuades Arnold to not tell anyone else about their mission, for fear of causing a panic. During the ride later at night, Arnold keeps his secret safe from Gerald, much to the latter's chagrin about Arnold's sudden secrecy. Then while Arnold goes on lookout at the crow's nest, Helga joins him up there and attempts to tell Arnold about her crush on him completely when she was abruptly cut off by Arnold when he spots another ship heading towards them, resulting her to become angry and heartbroken towards Arnold and tossing her locket into the river and ripping up Arnold's picture from her locket. The entire ship then gets attacked by the other ship, and go through river rapids to lose it and its river pirate crew, led by the river pirate, Lasombra. The next morning after losing their ship in an explosion upon crashing and learning the secret that Arnold kept from them from Eduardo telling them when they asked what is going on, the entire class and even Gerald start to grow some resentment to Arnold as Eduardo and his crew guide the class to their humanitarian base.
After traversing through the jungle the whole day, the whole group enters the base upon arrival. However, as soon as they enter, "Eduardo" then reveals himself to be Lasombra the whole time, disguised as Eduardo with a fake mustache, that the base is actually their camp base, and that the contest was all a trap. He and his men imprison everyone and frames Arnold for his betrayal, planning on using him to find the lost city of the Green-Eyed People and its treasures, making his entire class make resentment towards Arnold even more when Lasombra claims Arnold and him made a deal on finding the lost city and treasures. Afterwards upon imprisonment later, Helga overhears Arnold, in a separate cage next door, crying for his parents in remorse for what led to this and realizes Arnold had nothing to do with Lasombra's plot. After getting her locket back from Brainy, who received it from the river and fixed Arnold's picture earlier, Helga convinces the class and even Gerald to give Arnold another chance and help him escape so they can find help in the Green-Eyed People. Helga and Gerald then manage to escape from their cell with the class' help, free Arnold from his cage (All the while outwitting the guard by shoving Arnold's stapler into his face), and use Arnold's father's old journal to find the Green-Eyed People's city. Unknown to them, Lasombra anticipated this and had already placed a tracking device on Arnold's pendant before he even gave it to him.
Arnold, Gerald, and Helga manage to evade the lost city's traps, as does Lasombra, sacrificing most of his men to the traps in the process. They manage to find the city populated by children. Meanwhile, Abner, who escaped during the ship's "River pirate" ambush earlier, manages to make it back home to the boarding house via an airplane to warn Arnold's grandparents about what happened and, along with Big Bob and Miriam, who got an SOS message from Helga's intelligent best friend, Phoebe, with the class' help, fly a rental plane to San Lorenzo, where they soon help the rest of the class defeat Lasombra's crew and escape.
In the city, Arnold, Gerald, and Helga realize that the residents of the city worship Arnold. The group finds a statue said to contain a treasure that may lead to a cure for the city's sleeping sickness, that has contaminated most of the city's population. They are then cornered by Lasombra, who takes Arnold hostage and steals the Corazón. After Gerald and Helga catch up, Lasombra forces Arnold to use the amulet to open the statue after destroying the wooden bridge, threatening to make Gerald and Helga fall to their deaths if Arnold refuses to cooperate. He succeeds, and when Lasombra tries to take the treasure from within, the statue shoots him in the forehead with a poison dart. Lasombra then falls off the cliff below, unknowingly knocking Arnold onto Gerald and Helga, who are hanging on the collapsing bridge for dear life.
Afterwards, a mysterious man arrives and, after pulling Arnold, Gerald, and Helga up to safety before the damaged bridge collapsed, reveals himself to be the real Eduardo (Revealing that the crew that attacked the class' ship earlier was actually Eduardo and his crew trying to rescue the class from Lasombra and his crew). Then, the dying poisoned Lasombra climbs back up via the destroyed bridge's ropes and gets into a brief scuffle with Eduardo, Arnold, Gerald and Helga (Resulting with the treasure falling off the cliff) before finally succumbing to the poison dart's poison and falling to his death. The group makes it back to the city (Via the stone bridge Eduardo used to get to Arnold, Gerald, and Helga a moment ago), and Eduardo finally shows Arnold, Gerald, and Helga where Miles and Stella are in the city, revealing that they have also been contaminated with the sleeping sickness upon arrival years ago. Upon learning that the treasure was a key mechanism to release the cure to the infected population after explaining how they accidentally lost it, the children soon mourns for their parents. Feeling sorry for Arnold, the Green-Eyed children, and their parents along with Gerald and Eduardo, Helga soon realizes her locket would make a perfect temporary substitute since it's heart-shaped like the treasure itself. As soon as she and Arnold both insert the locket and activate the mechanism with it, the temple then releases the cure and the infected are cured and revived. Arnold and the city's children soon reunite with their parents. Arnold then professes his gratitude to Helga (Who gets her locket back now that the curing is done), thus allowing them both to finally confessing their love for each other and the two sharing their first official romantic kiss together, as witnessed by Miles, Stella, Gerald, and Eduardo.
Arnold wakes up one morning back home after all of this, and rushes downstairs to find things seemingly back to the way it was before the trip, until his parents show up, revealing that this is not a dream at all and that those events really did happen, and that Arnold bolting awake just now was just him having a dream that he never found his parents. The series then ends with Arnold waving goodbye to Miles and Stella as he goes to his first day of sixth grade with his classmates and Mr. Simmons at PS. 118. 
==Cast ==
The voice cast for the film is made up of 20 actors from the original series, and 11 new cast members to replace former actors who retired, grew up, or died.
*Mason Vale Cotton as Arnold Shortman
*Benjamin Flores Jr. as Gerald Johanssen
*Francesca Marie Smith as Helga Pataki
*Dan Castellaneta as Grandpa Phil Shortman
*Tress MacNeille as Grandma Gertie Shortman, Homeless Woman
*Anndi McAfee as Phoebe Heyerdahl, Reporter
*Justin Shenkarow as Harold Berman
*Olivia Hack as Rhonda Wellington Lloyd
*Gavin Lewis as Eugene Horowitz
*Aiden Lewandowski as Sid
*Jet Jurgensmeyer as Stinky Peterson
*Laya Hayes as Nadine
*Nicolas Cantu as Thaddeus "Curly" Gammelthorpe
*Dan Butler as Mr. Robert Simmons
*Maurice LaMarche as Big Bob Pataki, Homeless Man #1, Flunky Guard
*Kath Soucie as Miriam Pataki
*Nika Futterman as Olga Pataki
*Craig Bartlett as Miles Shortman, Brainy, Abner, Monkeyman
*Antoinette Stella as Stella Shortman
*Carlos Alazraqui as Eduardo
*Dom Irrera as Ernie Potts
*Wally Wingert as Oskar Kokoshka, Mr. Hyunh, Homeless Man #2
*Rick Corso as Dino Spumoni
*Danny Cooksey as Stoop Kid
*Danielle Judovits as Big Patty Smith
*Jim Belushi as Coach Jack Wittenberg
*Stephen Stanton as Pigeon Man
*Lane Toran as Crewman, Pirate #1, Guard #1, Che
*Jamil Walker Smith as Paulo, Guard #2, Pirate #2
*Hope Levy as Girl Queen
*Alfred Molina as Lasombra
==External links==
*Hey Arnold!: The Jungle Movie on Netflix
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Category:2017 films
Category:2017 television films
Category:2017 animated films
Category:Nickelodeon animated films
Category:Nickelodeon original films
Category:Films about children
Category:Films about missing people
Category:Films set in South America
Category:Animated films about friendship
Category:Television sequel films
Category:Animated films based on animated series 
Category:American children's comedy films
Category:American children's animated adventure films