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Such a frustrating disappointment

Pretty Good

When a movie has you begging for it to end not even half way through it's pure crap. We've all seen this movie and this characters millions of times, nothing new in it. Don't waste your time.

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

The CGI elephant was cool. But I had to quit this after 30 or 40 minutes. Maybe I wasn't in the mood for this type of comedy. The jokes are geared more towards children or whatever but whatever. It seems well directed at times. Just silly in repetitive way. But I did not give the film an honest chance - I did the math and quit it before the halfway mark. Maybe the second half is a freaking masterpiece but I wouldn't know; and ultimately the director is to blame. Unless this did good back in the days. It must have came out around the time of Disney's Tarzan animated film.

Disney screwed up big time by including a line from the narrator in the film about "don't worry, none of the people die, they just get boo boos" and then DID NOT make the same statement around a scene involving beating up on a lion. BAD FORM DISNEY. There was also a fight scene that was unnecessarily violent and long. The one scene catching George out of his clothes was cute and nothing showed, but it was done in a way that made it clear he was really naked, one more thing knocking it off the list for children under I'd say the age of 13 or 14.

The only truly memorable scene in this movie was the stunt at the Golden Gate Bridge-it was actually rather impressive. The rest, however, was trite, dull, and repetitive. George, an inept Tarzan-like man, is found by Ursula in the jungle, and she takes him to the city, and of course there are problems with that.The original "George Of The Jungle" episodes were short cartoons, not necessarily suited for conversion to a feature-length film, as other such efforts such as "Dudley Do-Right" have proved. Though the movie does make a real effort to keep as close to the original cartoon as possible, the sad truth is that the whole thing just didn't work. Fortunately, the fad for such efforts has long died off, so we don't have to worry about seeing Hong Kong Phooey or Tennessee Tuxedo getting such treatment.

I have to say that this film has a lot of dumbness mixed in there with a lot of potential. First, it has a great cast like Holland Taylor as Mrs. Stanhope who you don't see enough of in this film. The animals are largely added in to talk and the elephant acts more like a dog than an elephant. John Cleese is a hoot as the ape who can speak Queen's English and you raised George in the jungle. Anyway, Thomas Haden Church plays Lyle who is with his fiancé Ursula Stanhope played by Lesley Mann in the jungle but the jungle sets don't look real. Anyway, it's a comedy aimed at a younger audience. Brendan Frasier is fine as George of the jungle but I don't like when he acts like an ape, grunts, or howls. But still there is a sweet love story in there. Abraham Benrubi plays a poacher and the narrator even has a sense of humor too. It's silly childish humor!