It sort of has its own kid-friendly unique sense of humor, and the devotion all the actors have to being silly throughout the entire thing but still totally committed is actually kind of charming.

The narrator keeps interrupting that it’s all fake, it’s all a film, and it’s here for jokes, and, yeah, it sort of works that way and it works well. In the beginning, a caption pops up, saying 'I mean 'Ursula' - Doy!'ĭoug (vo): And I don’t mean that in an insulting way, I mean that in a way that, literally, the film doesn’t care much either. Note: Doug accidentally calls Ursula 'Ursa'.Ursula wants to show George the human world and George wants to show Ursula the ape world, and we find out that the fiancée is actually a bad guy and he has this evil plan and, oh, it doesn’t matter. In fact, they’re kind of geniuses one of them voiced by John Cleese. And not only can he communicate with the apes, but the apes can communicate with people. Yet, strangely enough, it still acts like a dog. For example, he doesn’t really have a pet dog like most people has, he has a pet elephant. This is obviously a Tarzan knock-off, but it has a few other twists to it. At some point, they get separated and she comes across a wild man named George, played by Brendan Fraser. But as kids’ movies go, this has a lot of stuff about it that’s pretty unique.ĭoug (vo): Ursula and her fiancée are on an expedition into the jungle. But, with an upbeat, innocent sense of humor and an upbeat, innocent main character, as well as upbeat, innocent side characters, George of the Jungle is a lot of fun. And who can blame them? It’s not like there was a ton to go off of with the original cartoon, and the past live-action films based on cartoons have been so bad, this clearly had no chance. The original cartoon's theme song plays in the background throughout)ĭoug (vo): So at the time when they were making live-action movies out of any dumb old cartoon, yeah, I know, as opposed to today (A poster of The Smurfs 2 is shown), George of the Jungle was the one that everyone thought was gonna be the biggest flop. (The Disneycember logo is shown, before showing clips from George of the Jungle.

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