George of the Jungle (film): Difference between revisions

 

Completely light-hearted, with a narrator who delights in the fact there's [[No Fourth Wall]] and [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] just about everything, ''George of the Jungle'' was a box-office success and relatively well-received with critics. In 2003 it got a [[Direct-to-video]] sequel, which had Christopher Showerman as George and [[Julie Benz]] as Ursula. ("[[No Fourth Wall|Me new George. Studio too cheap to hire Brendan Fraser]].")

 

* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: Ursula, who was a redhead in the original cartoon, is blonde in the movie.

* [[Eloquent in My Native Tongue]]: See [[Fun With Subtitles]] below.

* [[Mr. Fanservice]]: Brendan Fraser as George.

* [[Fade to White]]: When George is shot.

* [[The Film of the Series]]

'''Lyle''': Hey, the important thing, Kwame, is that I was outnumbered. }}

* [[Innocent Fanservice Boy]]: George complains about the shower, saying that the "waterfall" is too warm and he slipped on a "strange slippery rock"... while nude, in front of the heroine and her best friend.

* [[Interactive Narrator]]: The narrator is an active and slightly malignant force. At one point, Thor (a [[Mook]]) picks a fight with him over his insulting description, to which the narrator responds by rewinding the movie just to taunt him. (The mook's comrade then asks, "Thor, were you fighting with the ''narrator''?")

** In the sequel, Lyle gets into an argument with him during the climax. {{spoiler|The infuriated narrator calmly reaches down and plucks him off to the sky while the heroes stare in complete bemusement.}}

* [[The Other Darrin]]: As the quote lampshades, the sequel changed the roles of Geroge, Ursula and Ursula's mother. Only Thomas Haden Church (Lyle) and John Clesse (Ape) returned from the first movie. It is said that Brendon was offered to come back but didn't want to go through the training process to get his body to the build needed for the role. He even came up with a joke for the movie that he would come back a bloated mess and be lured off the set by donuts but it wasn't used.

* [[Police Lineup]]: Parodied when Lyle takes part in a lineup. In normal police lineups, the people hired are meant to have similar physical features to the convicted/accused. Lyle ended up standing next to jungle natives who weren't even the same skin colour as he was and they were of different shapes and sizes.

** Followed immediately by the Narrator saying, in regards to Ape in captivity, "Meanwhile, halfway across the world, another ass was feeling pain..."

* [[Pretender Diss]]: Parodying Lloyd Bentsen's famous comment: