MOVIEmeter
Top 5000
Up 91 this week

George of the Jungle (1997)

5.3
Your rating:
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 -/10 X  
Ratings: 5.3/10 from 37,875 users   Metascore: 53/100
Reviews: 89 user | 54 critic | 18 from Metacritic.com

George grows up in the jungle raised by apes. Based on the Cartoon series.

Director:

Writers:

(characters), (story), 2 more credits »
0Check in
0Share...

User Lists

Related lists from IMDb users

a list of 10000 titles created 2 months ago
 
a list of 1228 titles created 02 May 2012
 
a list of 3627 titles created 1 month ago
 
a list of 783 titles created 27 Mar 2012
 
a list of 31 titles created 3 months ago
 

Connect with IMDb


Share this Rating

Title: George of the Jungle (1997)

George of the Jungle (1997) on IMDb 5.3/10

Want to share IMDb's rating on your own site? Use the HTML below.

Take The Quiz!

Test your knowledge of George of the Jungle.
1 win & 2 nominations. See more awards »
Learn more

People who liked this also liked... 

Comedy | Family
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4.7/10 X  

Michael Cromwell, a New-Yorker, suddenly learns that he has a 13-year old son that's been raised in the jungle. He brings the boy to New York, and that's where the fun starts...

Director: John Pasquin
Stars: Tim Allen, Martin Short, JoBeth Williams
Action | Adventure | Comedy
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 3.9/10 X  

A security guard's dreams come true when he is selected to be transformed into a cybernetic police officer.

Director: David Kellogg
Stars: Matthew Broderick, Rupert Everett, Joely Fisher
Adventure | Comedy | Family
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.5/10 X  

Shadow, Sassy, and Chance have to find their way home after they become stranded at the San Francisco International Airport as their owners fly to Canada on vacation.

Director: David R. Ellis
Stars: Michael J. Fox, Sally Field, Ralph Waite
Action | Adventure | Comedy
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.4/10 X  

A female pirate and her companion race against their rivals to find a hidden island that contains a fabulous treasure.

Director: Renny Harlin
Stars: Geena Davis, Matthew Modine, Frank Langella
Animation | Action | Adventure
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 7/10 X  

When Sid's attempt to adopt three dinosaur eggs gets him abducted by their real mother to an underground lost world, his friends attempt to rescue him.

Directors: Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier
Stars: Eunice Cho, Denis Leary, John Leguizamo
Action | Adventure | Comedy
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.2/10 X  

The three best of the disbanded Musketeers - Athos, Porthos, and Aramis - join a young hotheaded would-be-Musketeer, D'Artagnan, to stop the Cardinal Richelieu's evil plot: to form an ... See full summary »

Director: Stephen Herek
Stars: Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Chris O'Donnell
Comedy | Family
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.1/10 X  

A married father decides to dream the impossible dream, to get that year's hot toy for his son just before Christmas Day.

Director: Brian Levant
Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman
Action | Adventure | Comedy
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.7/10 X  

A bet pits a British inventor, a Chinese thief, and a French artist on a worldwide adventure that they can circle the globe in 80 days.

Director: Frank Coraci
Stars: Jackie Chan, Steve Coogan, Jim Broadbent
Cats & Dogs (2001)
Action | Adventure | Comedy
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 5.1/10 X  

A look at the top-secret, high-tech espionage war going on between cats and dogs, which their human owners are blissfully unaware of.

Director: Lawrence Guterman
Stars: Jeff Goldblum, Elizabeth Perkins, Tobey Maguire
Action | Adventure | Comedy
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.9/10 X  

A romance writer sets off to Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure.

Director: Robert Zemeckis
Stars: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
Animation | Action | Adventure
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.8/10 X  

Manny, Sid, and Diego discover that the Ice Age is coming to an end, and join everybody for a journey to higher ground. On the trip, they discover that Manny, in fact, is not the last of the wooly mammoths.

Director: Carlos Saldanha
Stars: Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary
Action | Adventure | Comedy
    1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 6.3/10 X  

A newly recruited night security guard at the Museum of Natural History discovers that an ancient curse causes the animals and exhibits on display to come to life and wreak havoc.

Director: Shawn Levy
Stars: Ben Stiller, Carla Gugino, Dick Van Dyke
Edit

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
...
...
...
...
Greg Cruttwell ...
Max
...
...
Kelly Miller ...
...
...
Michael Chinyamurindi ...
...
Kip
Lydell M. Cheshier ...
Baleto (as Lydell Cheshier)
...
The Narrator (voice)
...
Male Guest at Party
Edit

Storyline

Baby George got into a plane crash in a jungle, stayed alive and was adopted by a wise ape. Ursula Stanhope, US noble woman is saved from death on safari by grown-up George, and he takes her to jungle to live with him. He slowly learns a rules of human relationships, while Ursula's lover Lyle is looking for her and the one who took her. After they are found, Ursula takes George to the USA. Written by Anonymous

Plot Summary | Add Synopsis

Taglines:

Watch out!


Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG for crude humor and mild violence, language and sensuality | See all certifications »

Parents Guide:

 »
Edit

Details

Official Sites:

Country:

Language:

|

Release Date:

16 July 1997 (USA)  »

Also Known As:

Djungel George  »

Box Office

Budget:

$55,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend:

DEM 3,167,357 (Germany) (6 February 1998)

Gross:

DEM 13,512,461 (Germany) (13 March 1998)
 »

Company Credits

Show detailed on  »

Technical Specs

Runtime:

Sound Mix:

(as dts)| |

Color:

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1
See  »
Edit

Did You Know?

Trivia

This movie was never aired on any pay-TV network, up until 2012 when this film was a part of HBO's catalogue of Disney films. HBO was the first pay-TV network to air this film. See more »

Goofs

As George slides down the tree during the first Ursula rescue, you can see the white elastic band under George's loincloth when he has his unfortunate encounter with the tree branch. See more »

Quotes

[first lines]
Narrator: Deep in the heart of Africa is a place no man has ever entered. The place that belongs to the lion, the elephant and the ape. A place known as the Bukuvu. Travellers flying overhead can only glimpse at its many marvels, its sparkling rivers, its lush veldts, its billowy cloud formations and its hidden mountains. Never fear, my friends. All was not lost. Scraped and boo-booed, they searched high and low, but they never recovered their most precious cargo.
See more »

Crazy Credits

As the credits begin to roll, "Ape" suddenly calls out, "Hey, doesn't anyone want to know what happened to me?!" We then see a wild Las Vegas show with Ape dressed up in blue sequens singing "My Way." See more »

Connections

Spoofs The River Wild (1994) See more »

Soundtracks

"Man On The Flying Trapeze"
(1867)
Music by Gaston Lyle (uncredited)
Lyrics by George Leybourne (uncredited)
Arranged by Marc Shaiman
See more »

Frequently Asked Questions

This FAQ is empty. Add the first question.

User Reviews

 
Not nearly as lame as I thought it'd be.
9 September 1999 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Actually, a lot of fun.

Sure, it's lame. It's SUPPOSED to be lame. It pokes fun at itself for being lame. ("George can't die -- he's the hero.") Don't expect great special effects, real Nature, a solid plot, or Oscar-caliber acting. This is mind candy.

In a lot of ways, the plot is like Titanic -- nice new boy steals girl away from sleezebag fiancee she's just marrying to please her mother. But since Ursula ditches Lyle before taking up with George, there's none of the moral bankruptcy that made Titanic such a stinker. And, of course, nobody is supposed to take George of the Jungle seriously anyway.


20 of 27 people found this review helpful.  Was this review helpful to you?

Message Boards

Recent Posts
Whats your favourite of the narator's lines? Superhuman01
Greatest movie of all time. thomas795135
Quotes jimmy_dipp
about ursula vidor
QUESTION! jellybean007j
Fraser's tan virus278
Discuss George of the Jungle (1997) on the IMDb message boards »

Contribute to This Page

Create a character page for:
?