History Film / GeorgeOfTheJungle

* AllGirlsLikePonies: Discussed in a scene, when at a party, the girls are all [[MrFanservice watching George]] frolicking with the horses, when one of the male guests (who, of course, has no idea who George is) comments "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint What is it with girls and horses, anyway?]]"

* AllGirlsLikePonies: Discussed in a scene, when at a party, the girls are all watching George frolicking with the horses, when one of the male guests (who, of course, has no idea who George is) comments "What is it with girls and horses, anyway?"

-->'''Narrator''': I pretend I didn't hear that.

* WhatsAnXLikeYouDoingInAYLikeThis?: Ape reads a book on "human courtship rituals" to help George (''Coffee, Tea or Me'', a real-life book about two lusty young fictional stewardesses) and suggests the line "What's a nice girl like you doing in a plane like this?"

* FunWithSubtitles: When George is speaking "gorilla" to his ape friends. George [[ISoundLikeARetardInEnglish sounds like a retard in English]], but apparently he speaks Gorilla like a Creator/WilliamShakespearean scholar, complete with an ornamental calligraphy-style font for the subtitles.

* FunWithSubtitles: When George is speaking "gorilla" to his ape friends. George [[ISoundLikeARetardInEnglish sounds like a retard in English]], but apparently he speaks Gorilla like a {{Shakespeare}}an scholar, complete with an ornamental calligraphy-style font for the subtitles.

* [[WhatsAnXLikeYouDoingInAYLikeThis What's An X Like You Doing In A Y Like This?]]: Ape reads a book on "human courtship rituals" to help George (''Coffee, Tea or Me'', a real-life book about two lusty young fictional stewardesses) and suggests the line "What's a nice girl like you doing in a plane like this?"

''George of the Jungle'' is a 1997 movie based on [[GeorgeOfTheJungle the cartoon of the same name]], starring BrendanFraser as George and Leslie Mann as Ursula.

''George of the Jungle'' is a 1997 movie based on [[GeorgeOfTheJungle the cartoon of the same name]], starring Brendan Fraser as George and Leslie Mann as Ursula.

* ThisIsGonnaSuck: "This biggest swing in jungle history. Will hurt very much... But George have to do it." The swing is so long that he builds up enough velocity to actually knock [[EfficientDisplacement a George-shaped section of bark]] off the ''other side of the tree''. Ow.

* BorrowedCatchprase:

-->'''Ursula's parents, smiling, in unison''': We understand, dear.
-->'''Narrator''': Juuuust kidding!
-->'''Ursula's mother''': [[BigNo AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!]]

''George of the Jungle'' is a 1997 movie based on [[GeorgeOfTheJungle the cartoon of the same name]], starring Brendan Fraser as George and Leslie Mann as Ursula.

We learn in the AnimatedCreditsOpening that George survived a plane crash in the heart of Africa, but was sadly unfound by the survivors and rescue crew. Here, he grows into a man who rules the jungle. An heiress named Ursula explores the area with her snooty fiance, Lyle (Thomas Haden Church), who abandons her when a lion attacks them. George swoops in to save Ursula, and takes care of her while Lyle and a couple of poachers (in search of the mythical "White Ape", which is George) try to find her. George and Ursula eventually fall in love with each other, and they go back to San Francisco for the requisite FishOutOfWater plot. George and Ursula have to deal with the treacherous Lyle and Ursula's disapproving, meddling mother in order to stay together and live happily ever after.

Completely light-hearted, with a narrator who delights in the fact there's NoFourthWall and [[LampshadeHanging 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 JulieBenz as Ursula. ("[[NoFourthWall Me new George. Studio too cheap to hire Brendan Fraser]].")

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Ursula kicks Lyle in the shins to escape and he hops around for a bit before grabbing her again.

* AllGirlsLikePonies: Discussed in a scene, when at a party, the girls are all watching George frolicking with the horses, when one of the male guests (who, of course, has no idea who George is) comments "What is it with girls and horses, anyway?"

* BrideAndSwitch: At the climax, Lyle tries to forcibly marry Ursula when they enter a dark tunnel. Upon exiting the tunnel he learns that he actually married an amorous gorilla instead.

* DisneyDeath: The film plays the trope straight, [[LampshadeHanging hangs a lampshade]] on it, and takes it to a blatantly over-the-top extreme bordering on NighInvulnerability. In one of the first scenes, for example, one of the guides falls at least 400 meters from a RopeBridge over a cliff, at which point the {{Narrator}} reassures the audience:

* FunWithSubtitles: When George is speaking "gorilla" to his ape friends. George [[ISoundLikeARetardInEnglish sounds like a retard in English]], but apparently he speaks Gorilla like a {{Shakespeare}}an scholar, complete with an ornamental calligraphy-style font for the subtitles.

* ImmortalHero: Lampshaded by the narrator:

* IntellectualAnimal: Ape. [[HeyItsThatVoice Voiced]] by JohnCleese to make it even funnier.

* LastSecondWordSwap:

* MyHovercraftIsFullOfEels: Lyle uses a phrasebook to attempt to communicate with his native porters in the African jungle: "Pardon me, girls. I know you're feeling pretty hey sailor up here about now. But if you would just let me order a bowl of fried clams, we can all have smallpox tomorrow."

* PoliceLineup: 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.

-->'''Ape''': Madam, I knew Jane Goodall and you are no Jane Goodall.

* FunWithSubtitles: When George is speaking "gorilla" to his ape friends. Normally George has about as basic a vocabulary and grammar rules as anybody, but apparently he speaks gorilla like a {{Shakespeare}}an scholar, complete with a calligraphy-style font for the subtitles.
** Near the climax of the film everything Lyle's henchmen (Gunner, Gunter, Hans, Jans, [[OddNameOut and Phil]]) say is subtitled, even though they're speaking perfect english.

* NoFourthWall: Placed on top of a pedestal and worshipped relentlessly. The narrator gleefully lampshades every plot point and convention, George has a lot of asides to the viewer, and one of the villains in the first movie even take the time to berate the narrator for giving them such a hard time.

* EstrogenBrigadeBait: Brendan Fraser as George.

* RealityWarper: The Narrator parodies this. He is able to change anything in the story as much as he wants - such as getting rid of Lyle, letting Beatrice live...

* SexualKarma: Lyle winds up with a (semi-sentient) gorilla... who he'd just exchanged vows with while in a dark cave, thinking it was Ursula.

* WorldsShortestBook: Ape, talking about "George's Secrets." Provides the page quote.

* {{Jerkass}}: Lyle and Ursula's mother.

* {{Jerkass}}: Lyle.

* BetterThanABareBulb

* DontExplainTheJoke: One of the few times where this is actually funny: