Starring: Brendan Fraser, Leslie Mann, Thomas Haden Church, John Cleese, Richard Roundtree Directed By: Sam Weisman Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Binding: DVD Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Live, NTSC Label: Walt Disney Video Number of Items: 1 Picture Format: Pan & Scan Region Code: 1 Release Date: December 12, 2000 Running Time: 92 minutes Theatrical Release Date: July 16, 1997
Product Description: A baby named George is raised by gorillas and grows up to be a buff and lovable klutz with plenty of rain forest animal friends. Genre: Feature Film-Comedy Rating: PG Release Date: 2-MAR-2004 Media Type: DVD
Amazon.com: Not even the executives at Disney could have predicted the runaway success of this live-action movie inspired by Jay Ward's goofy 1960s cartoon character. Not only did George make a killing at the box office, but Disney's marketing wizards turned it into one of their best-selling videos. It's hard to begrudge the movie's success, even if this is the kind of mindless entertainment that caters to the lowest common denominator. In any case, it's obvious that kids love this movie, in which the idiotic George (Brendan Fraser) repeatedly swings into trees and attracts the attention of a lovely jungle explorer (Leslie Mann) who decides to call off her engagement to a wealthy snob (Thomas Hayden Church) in favor of the vine-swinging hunk with an elephant named Shep (that thinks it's a dog) and an ape named Ape (with a proper Brit voice provided by John Cleese). Filled with slapstick gags and some funny special effects, the movie can be a bit of a trial for adults, but it's a hilarious treat for its intended audience. --Jeff Shannon
By George this movie is fun! This movie is good, innocent fun for all ages. It has a silly bad guy, an even sillier good guy, and a monkey that talks. Very entertaining and family friendly.
George of the Jungle Love it! Came when it was supposed to, and was in good shape upon arrival.
George Of The Jungle I really enjoy the dvd, its wondeful, i would definetly recommend it to anyone who enjoys George Of The Jungle.
George of the Jungle critique This is an excellent family film. More so, for those of us who remember the original 1960s cartoon. One of the many ways that this film works is that it has humor for the kids and for the adults. The morality lessons are also important. The value of friendship and loyalty are the most important messages in the movie. All in all, a fun film all around.
About the DVD... Widescreen or pan-and-scan? This film is only available in full screen but you are not missing anything because the widescreen version is the same 4:3 picture cropped for 1.77:1. How do I know this? Because I actually invested a lot of money for a rare "widescreen" laserdisc of this film on eBay only to find out that the "widescreen" image was really a cropped version of the (original) 4:3 version. Disney's favourite aspect ratio is 1.66:1, which means that films are filmed in 4:3 and then hard matted down to 1.66:1 for theatrical release and then to 1.77:1 for DVD. It would have been nice to have the added resolution of an "enhanced for widescreen" 1.77:1 DVD since I own a widescreen TV, but at least now I know the film is full screen and NOT pan-and-scan. And this format shows a lot more Brendan Fraser, if you know what I mean...:-)
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