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George, now a father, goes to Las Vegas, where he has to help out his brother.George, now a father, goes to Las Vegas, where he has to help out his brother.George, now a father, goes to Las Vegas, where he has to help out his brother.
John Cleese
- Ape
- (voice)
Kevin Greutert
- Tookie
- (voice)
Keith Scott
- Narrator
- (voice)
Kelly Miracco
- Betsy
- (as Kelly Miller)
Richard Mueck
- Ape
- (as Richard J. Mueck)
Abdoulaye NGom
- Kip
- (as Abdoulaye N'Gom)
- Director
- Writers
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- TriviaBrendan Fraser says he has no idea why Disney didn't offer him to reprise his role as George. He said he would've loved to do it again, but he made a commitment of performing in Looney Tunes: Back in Action (2003) as DJ Drake/Himself (Live-action) and Tazmanian Devil and Tazmanian She-Devil (Animation), so Christopher Showerman replaced Fraser in the role of George. Concidentally, "Back in Action" has an African setting of its own.In a 2022 interview with Entertainment Weekly, Fraser hinted that he didn't return because the studio didn't offer him enough money to come back. He said: "I think 'George' got a remake, and they built a joke into it that the studio was too cheap to hire me, which wasn't inaccurate."
- GoofsThe Narrator was greeted by the Narrator from Disney's Mulan. In reality that movie had no narrator.
- Crazy creditsFake bloopers are shown during the end credits.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Troldspejlet: Episode #30.16 (2004)
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It could have been a decent sequel... but...
There are just so many things wrong with this movie.
To begin with, the first twenty minutes of the film could have been compressed into just five or maybe ten. The overall movie is (mercifully) short already, but this could have been made up for by giving a little more attention to the Mean Lion (how did the miss a reference to "The Wiz" on that one?) and working his subplot a little more closely into the main plot. In short, the script had the seed of a good idea, but needed quite a bit of reworking.
Second, it could have done without the crude humor. The original also had some that it could have done without, but at least there it was almost an afterthought -- here, flatulence and urination abound.
Third, the show is a little too self-aware. The original series had that well enough, as did the first movie, but here it's just way, way too much. The Brendan Fraser in-jokes were just a bit over the top (and why no mention of the "new Ursula"?). Other gags with the Narrator, especially a couple of interactions near the end, also exceed good sense.
Fourth, a bit more attention could have been given to the CGI work. In the first it was hard to tell that Shemp wasn't a real elephant (except by behavior, of course), but here the CGI stands out like a sore thumb. Ideally special effects should merely tell the story whether they're good or bad, and they at least do succeed on that count, so it's a relatively small problem, but it's still there.
All that said, Christopher Showerman's performance as George is decent enough. It lacks Brendan Fraser's charm, but Christopher only really fails in that specific comparison -- he even managed to give George a bit of personal depth, which should have been a major foul in a Jay Ward-inspired movie but wasn't here. Julie Benz as the new Ursula surprised me as being even better than Leslie Mann in the original.
Most other performances were pretty standard, not standing out in my mind as either good or bad.
To begin with, the first twenty minutes of the film could have been compressed into just five or maybe ten. The overall movie is (mercifully) short already, but this could have been made up for by giving a little more attention to the Mean Lion (how did the miss a reference to "The Wiz" on that one?) and working his subplot a little more closely into the main plot. In short, the script had the seed of a good idea, but needed quite a bit of reworking.
Second, it could have done without the crude humor. The original also had some that it could have done without, but at least there it was almost an afterthought -- here, flatulence and urination abound.
Third, the show is a little too self-aware. The original series had that well enough, as did the first movie, but here it's just way, way too much. The Brendan Fraser in-jokes were just a bit over the top (and why no mention of the "new Ursula"?). Other gags with the Narrator, especially a couple of interactions near the end, also exceed good sense.
Fourth, a bit more attention could have been given to the CGI work. In the first it was hard to tell that Shemp wasn't a real elephant (except by behavior, of course), but here the CGI stands out like a sore thumb. Ideally special effects should merely tell the story whether they're good or bad, and they at least do succeed on that count, so it's a relatively small problem, but it's still there.
All that said, Christopher Showerman's performance as George is decent enough. It lacks Brendan Fraser's charm, but Christopher only really fails in that specific comparison -- he even managed to give George a bit of personal depth, which should have been a major foul in a Jay Ward-inspired movie but wasn't here. Julie Benz as the new Ursula surprised me as being even better than Leslie Mann in the original.
Most other performances were pretty standard, not standing out in my mind as either good or bad.
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- bobgreenwade
- Jul 25, 2006
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- Джордж із джунглів 2
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- Gold Coast Airport, Coolangatta, Queensland, Australia(Las Vegas Airport scenes)
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- $12,000,000 (estimated)
- Runtime1 hour 27 minutes
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- 1.78 : 1
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