Too much of everything

Thanks for the memories!

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

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.

"George of the Jungle" was released in 1997 to moderate critical acclaim, children love the movie, it is very cartoonish. What some people fail to recognize or don't know is that this film is a remake of a 1967 cartoon TV series.John Cleese co-stars as the voice of the "Ape named Ape" which is probably the funniest part of the film. 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!

"George of the Jungle" is an earlier example of CGI movies (the jungle images here look fake compared to the ones in present-day movies). The characters are nice enough, and there are some funny moments, but the movie probably won't get many laughs from adults (George crashing into trees gets old quickly because it happens so often, and the bathroom humor is also repeated more than once), and the end of the movie is not surprising considering the plot of the story. For me, the funny parts are where George is having so much trouble adjusting to civilization (making animal calls while riding in the car, not knowing what some common items are because he's never seen them before, not knowing how to interact with other humans). Overall, this is an OK movie but not a great one. Kids will probably laugh at the humor in this movie, but most adults won't find it nearly as funny.

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!