Can a Jungle man really find true
love?
George (Brendan Fraser) is a pseudo
Tarzan raised in the jungle by apes, but not just any apes, talking apes…that
play the bongos. He has a pet elephant named Shep and swings from vines. Ursula
Stanhope (Leslie Mann), a wealthy heiress, is touring the jungle with her guides
when she is saved by George from a ferocious lion. Ursula’s pompous and
self-absorbed fiancé Lyle (Thomas Haden Church) isn’t going to let George one up
him. So the battle for Ursula’s love ensues and leads them out of the jungle to
the urban jungle of San Francisco.
George of the Jungle is a fun movie packed with
silliness and some laugh-out-loud moments; it is not to be taken seriously at
all, it even pokes fun at itself throughout. Fraser nails the role of this
klutzy but lovable Jester of the Jungle in the live-action take of the 1960s
cartoon. Consider this kind of a guilty pleasure movie where you know it is
stupid but you still enjoy it. Between the narrator, the cartoon violence, the
subtitles and the talking apes you will surely find moments worthy of
laughter
Motherly Advice: Clothes are an
issue for one character, George, since he is seen wearing only a loincloth for
most of the movie. The cartoon violence and crude humor which includes George
falling, running into many trees, clothes-lining a lion and jokes involving
bodily functions are probably the things that will get you and/or your kids laughing
the most, but are not always filtered. It is implied in one scene that George
is naked but you will only see him from the waist up but Ursula’s friend is in
the room and makes a comment on how he looks. The not so lovable Lyle is the
butt of jokes by the men he enlisted to help him find Ursula, but don’t feel too
sorry for him he may have had it coming. With filters set to “Most filtering”
pop in George of the Jungle for some wacky fun for ages 6 and
up.
Hannah - Nobody dies in this story.
They just get really big boo-boos.
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