Good , But It Is Overrated By Some

Best movie of this year hands down!

The film creates a perfect balance between action and depth of basic needs, in the midst of an infertile atmosphere.

This is a gorgeous movie made by a gorgeous spirit.

The first 'George of the Jungle was really funny. Sequels always have an uphill battle, but this one starts at such a low level, it never reaches the base of the hill. The lame attempts at bathroom humor, the same gags done over and over, and a lead who fails to live up to the standard set by the original, makes this a movie that Disney should not be proud of. Worst of all, this is supposed to be a 'G' movie, but the level of ribald humor calls for a PG-14 at a minimum. As much as I usually enjoy Disney movies, I found myself losing interest in this one within the first twenty minutes. Save yourself some disappointment and give this one a miss.

This is disgrace in almost every way. I have nothing against movies that are meant to be in more than one part, not even those meant to be single movies but then inspired sequels, but when they knock something together just to try and get few dollars more of the old glory... yuck.New cast is not bad itself, some of them are maybe even better than original cast, but they miss the charm that we fell to in first movie. It simply isn't it. Music is copied from first movie. Story is unoriginal and dumb. Humor is rerun or exaggerated or simply pointless. CGI is story for itself. In original movie you could not tell that elephant is not the real one, while here all animals look like they skipped from cartoon. Not only unconvincing, but also very irritating. Screenplay was obviously forced without ideas or inspiration and then put into movie that I barely forced my self to watch till the end. In one word - sad.

In order to rate this movie fairly you have to think about the genre it's supposed to be: children's. They had more guidelines to follow in order to make this movie (meaning it could not get away with some of the humor and or language from the 1st) taking all that in this movie was fun and enjoyable to watch. Sequels usually make me nervous, however this one did pretty well for itself. Knowing that it didn't have the star power of Fraiser as George they capitalized on the humor and i believe Showeman did pretty well as the lead. The plot being easy to follow and maybe campy at times fits well for a younger audience, if you want to watch a movie and hope for academy award honors this is not it, but if you want to watch a simple, fun, energy filled movie you would make a good choice with this one.

I'm not one to go into a movie that's meant to be silly, expecting shakespere. But like a lot of comedy sequels, the jokes were too set up and too planned instead of coming from the situatution. Angus T. Jones was sweet as Junior and didn't get enough screentime, Julie Benz is a wonderful actress but suffers in this role, Chris Showerman would have made a fine 'new' George with a better script, as would Thomas Haden Church returning as Lyle. But everyone suffers do to a bad and very unfunny story that attempts to manipulate you into laughing. But beyond the line about the reason for a new 'George', I barely laughed at all. And I certainly didn't believe in George and Ursula's love despite the extremely idiot situations (though I did in the first film). There's silly so funny you watch it over and over again (first George of the Jungle film) and silly so stupid you never want to see it again (the sequel). Even the kids, who loved the first film, didn't laugh much watching this one. And they kept wondering why the all important Junior was conviently dropped from the middle of the story only to magically jump in again at the end. This movie was one of the worse Disney sequels ever made.