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'''''Jungle 2 Jungle''''' is a 1997 remake of French film ''"Un Indien Dans La Ville"''<ref>(''"An Indian In The City"'' though it was released in English as "''Small Indian, Big City''")</ref> starring Tim Allen.
Michael Cromwell (Allen), a New York-based commodities broker, wants to marry his lady love Charlotte (Lolita Davidovich). But his divorce from his first wife, Dr. Patricia Cromwell (JoBeth Williams) has not been finalized yet, and he has to locate her. He traces her to a tribal settlement in Canaima National Park, Venezuela. His visit comes with a surprise: Michael and Patricia have a 13-year-old son who has been raised by the tribe, Mimi-Siku (Sam Huntington).
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Michael is convinced to take his son with him in a first visit to [[New York City]]. Major culture shock follows. Also, the boy finds his first love in Karen Kempster ([[Leelee Sobieski]]), daughter of Michael's co-worker Richard (Martin Short).
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* [[Accidental Pervert]]: Depends on if you consider it an "accident" or not--Mimi is looking for his pet tarantula in Charlotte's bed while she's sleeping in it, and gets an eyeful of her lower bits. [[All Men Are Perverts|He visibly doesn't mind what he sees]], but she understandably flips out when she sees him there.
{{quote|'''Mimi:''' [happily] Nice [[Unusual Euphemism|poochie-poochie]]!
'''Charlotte:''' [wrapping herself up in a blanket and fleeing] ''THAT IS THE LAST "POOCHIE-POOCHIE" YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AROUND HERE, YOU LITTLE SAVAGE!'' }}
* [[Actor Allusion]]: Michael accidentally blowguns his girlfriend's cat. His reaction is a familiar guttural [[Home Improvement (TV series)||"Oh, no..."]]
* [[Alpha Bitch]]: Charlotte.
* [[Big Applesauce]]
* [[Blithe Spirit]]: Michael and Mimi-Siku go for a stroll in Central Park after buying some hot dogs from a vendor. Then Mimi notices some [[Street Performer|Street Performers]] singing and playing instruments for a number that sounds remarkably similar to the tribal music he has heard back home, and he excitedly performs an ecstatic dance before the astonished onlookers. Mimi urges his father to join him, and Michael indulgently does. Then ''everybody'' in the park gets into the spirit and joins in the spontaneous dance party.
* [[Blow Gun]]: Michael contrives to shoot himself in the leg with semi-paralytic darts not once but twice.
* [[Cultural Translation]]: The original took place in France. Disney changed this to America.
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* [[Dog Food Diet]] Well, [[Dog Food Diet|Cat Food Diet]].
* [[Eat the Dog]]: It's a running gag. First, Mimi wants to eat Charlotte's cat, but [[Squick|he settles for the cat food instead]]. Then he kills a pigeon with an arrow and gives it to a homeless man to eat. Finally, he steals the Kempsters' exotic fish and roasts them over a campfire in the backyard.
* [[The Family for the Whole Family]]: Subverted, then played straight. Jovanovic and his goons are more than sufficiently menacing (nearly slicing off Richard Kempster's fingers), but then they are humiliatingly trounced by Mimi-Siku and [[Let's Get Dangerous|the surprisingly competent Kempster family]].
* [[Foreign Remake]]: The original was French.
* [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]: Hoo boy...
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* [[Kidanova]]: Mimi-Siku is very popular with the village girls and gives them cooking pots as gifts, which the girls love and are more practical than flowers in the jungle. He doesn't stop when he gets to New York, either, flirting with a girl on the street and later romancing Karen. Michael claims it's [[In the Blood]], but Patricia seems skeptical.
* [[Letters 2 Numbers]]
* [[Literal
* [[Mighty Whitey]]: Played with, but ultimately repudiated. Mimi-Siku ''is'' quite adept at tribal customs, but that is only because he has been explicitly raised as an native, and among native children. At one point the chief assigns him a task in order to "become a man," but due to Michael's refusal to cooperate it at first doesn't look as if Mimi will succeed. Michael himself is noticeably squeamish around the various jungle animals and Mimi's pets - as are other Anglo-American characters when Mimi is brought to New York.
* [[Raised by Natives]]: Mimi-Siku.
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* [[Trailers Always Spoil]]?: The few people who went to see the movie did so because of the trailer. Especially the part where Martin Short is [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsAbbL6R45I#t=01m12s shown a tarantula bigger than his hand.] Unfortunately, that was the best part of the movie.
* [[You No Take Candle]]: Mimi-Siku apparently talks like this since he was raised alongside a native South American tribe, though it's ''really'' odd since his mother speaks perfect English.
** She's a pretty awful mother, she probably didn't bother to teach him English.
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