Tapeworm: A Movie Podcast - This Movie Wants To Bone!! | George Of The Jungle (1997)

Episode Date: August 25, 2025

Hold onto your vines! Razsal and DJ take a wild ride through the jungle of 1997's "George of the Jungle." With Brendan Fraser's abs leading the way, they explore the film's slapstick antics, unexpected adult humor, and its place in 90s nostalgia.Is it a kids' movie or a cheeky adult comedy? You decide! Brendan Fraser: King of the Jungle or just king of our hearts? Gender role reversals and why this film might be more progressive than it seems. Why "George of the Jungle" is the perfect film for when you want to laugh without thinking too hard."George of the Jungle" might not win an Oscar, but it's a swinging good time. Tune in to find out if it's worth a rewatch or just a nostalgic trip down memory lane.Love what you hear? Subscribe, rate, and review us wherever you get your free podcast fix. Next up, we're diving into "Monkeybone" – because we just can't quit Brendan Fraser!

This week we watched a movie that answers the question, what if Tarzan was way hornier and had no spatial awareness? That's right. We watched 1997's Georgia the Jungle starring Brendan Fraser and Leslie Mann. I'm DJ. And I'm Raz. Welcome to the Tape Worm Podcast. Now, are we 100% sure that this is a children's film? Because this movie wants to fuck.

Like, I am wet and sticky after watching. watching this fucking movie. It was definitely one of those movies that straddled that line between children's humor and some comedic effect for the adults that had to sit through it. Okay. So this was a big thing in the 90s, early 2000s about, you know, let's make sure there's jokes in there for the parents as well. This one went a little extreme with it, though. There is a straight up, like, huge dick joke in this movie where Brandon Fraser just happens to be naked and one of the girls is like, I can see why they made him the king of the jungle. Like, come the fuck on.

That's pretty, that's pretty blatant. No, there was definitely some crass jokes in there, but I think it's one of those things that helped. the movie stay entertaining even as we grew up as other watchers grew up. That's fair. I definitely, I could do without some of it. Some of it was a little, a little much, but we will get into that. Now, last week you said when we were talking about the mummy, I had said that this movie is what got Brendan Fraser the judge. job in the mummy.

And you were like, I didn't realize that Georgia the jungle came out before the mummy. I didn't either. I had to think about it. And I think the big thing was in, I believe, 2005 or 2006, they came out with an animated series. Do you remember that? Yes. Don't look it up because there's a reason here. But in 2005, 2006, somewhere around there.

They came out with this animated series. I believe on the Disney Channel, because I'm pretty sure it's a Disney movie. And to promote it, they played the shit out of these two movies. And for some reason, I think in my brain, it was, oh, they just released this movie, so now they're making a TV tie-in with it. So I think that's why I thought that it came out much later than what it did. But it was a 1999 film or 1997, excuse me. And then they made that sequel in 2003, I think. But we don't talk about that.

That one's rough. Yeah, it definitely has not held up as well. Not at all. I'm sorry, but Angus T. Jones could not save that movie. I forgot he was in that Yep, he is the son I can't think of who actually plays George But I just feel like

Anybody who tried to mimic Idiot Brendan Fraser Just comes off as Brinjie, I guess is the best word Really, I feel like Brendan Fraser At least at this time is the only actor That could pull off

The stupid George I mean I can definitely see that However I mean, around this time period, Jim Carrey was at his height, and I feel like he would never accept a role like this. I think Jim mine had been able to do it. I can see. You know what, now that I'm thinking about it, I don't know when he passed away, but another one that definitely could do it was, shit, why can't I think of his name right now? He played Ernest.

I'm out of loss. The only name that's coming to mind is Vern Troier, and I know for damn sure it's not Vern Troier. Speaking of which, RIP Vir and Troy, are you looking it up right now? I'm not even sure what movie you're talking about. What? Ernest. Jim Varney. Oh, you died in 2000.

RIP, Jim Varney. He is an amazing actor. He was another man who had a rubber ball as a face. Have you never seen an Ernest movie? I guess not. I'm looking at some of his credits, and I guess he was in Toy Story for something. And Beverly Hillbillies? He was slinky dog.

Okay. He had that deep raspy, gross voice. He was in Atlantis, the Lost Empire. I haven't seen that. But, which I'm amazed I haven't seen that, to be honest with you. So on the list. Ernest Scared Stupid is one of those movies that I have to watch every year on Halloween. So I feel like that's what we're going to do this year for Hollywood.

Halloween. That is like Halloween Day watch because it is an amazing movie. There's lore behind that movie that we'll get into. But right now we're talking about Georgia the jungle. So like I said, they made a cartoon like a, it was like a Saturday morning Disney cartoon. Do you remember watching that? No, I think at that point I was more into Cartoon Network. Okay. Tsunami, don't swim. I can't remember exactly why. I don't know if it was my sister liked it. Maybe I liked it. But I do remember watching it. I can't tell you anything about it at this point.

I just remember there being an animated series. That being said, do you know where Georgia the jungle came from? What the idea of this movie is? No. Not particularly. I mean, I know it's a spoof of the original, what, the 20s, 30s, whatever book, Tarzan. Yeah. It's a, it's a parody, I would say, of the, of Tarzan itself.

It is a 1960s animated series, which I had no idea existed. Yep. It is a, that's why I told you not to look up the series. because you were going to get the the 1960. I believe it was 1967. Do I have permission looking up now? Yes, you can look it up.

Don't watch it. Because we'll watch it together. We'll watch an episode together at some point. We'll record our reactions. Yeah, 1967. It had one season. Yep. I believe the entire season is available

on YouTube as one video. So, hey, I mean, fuck it. I don't, I don't think it was that long either. I don't know if they were like 15 minute episodes.

Seems to me, yeah, 21 minutes times 10. Okay. Although this says 17, so I don't know. Could have been, uh,

commercial breaks. Well, to make the full 30, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, that's true. Well,

that's, that's pretty typical for most, um, most, most, was back in that, well, even, well, today we're mostly doing one hour shows, but it was about 20, 21 minutes with not about nine minutes of a, of ad. Right. But you take that 20 minutes with the nine minute or however.

So I wonder if the 17 is including the intro and out, or I'm sorry, excluding the intro and outro. Could be each episode. Most likely, yes. that that might be where the 17 numbers coming from, which that would make sense. I didn't find too much about this movie. The biggest thing that I found was basically that the iconic, you know, him crashing into trees was done with green screen and a trampoline.

I don't know. Have you found anything? Oh, nothing specific like that. I can definitely see that being in the case. Looking over at, uh, looking at IMDB, scrolling down to the goofs. Some of these people are insane when it comes to putting trivia and stuff. Because this goof says,

Shep is clearly an Indian elephant, none of which are found in the wild in Africa. The two species that inhabit, Africa would be bush elephants and forest elephants. When you come down to like the geography of elephants, either this is your hobby or you need a hobby. Why not both? Well, if they, I don't know. This person seems to have a lot on their hands if this is their hobby.

They need to go through every movie that has an elephant. And they need to tell me, is this the geography in which this elephant would actually live? I did also find that it was shot in, I believe, Hawaii and San Francisco. That's fair. I mean, I definitely see the San Francisco, you know, set filming scenes that they did. Hawaii is interesting, though. I'm sure that would have been quite a nice little vacation for some of them, especially Frazier because, Fraser. Because I know he, as we discussed in our last episode, he does a lot of his own stunts.

And I know he did quite a bit of training for like the vine scenes and the gymnastics that he's had to do for this movie. That's fair. Yeah. I also read that he had lost so much weight and put on like got so. What's the word I'm looking for? It is focused so much on his muscle definition that he was barely. eating enough to keep the muscle on him. No, I 100 believe that.

I know professional bodybuilders, like, where they have their insane definition, that's something they can only really keep up for like a day top. So, and the fact that he had to do this probably for weeks or months. Oh, yeah, I have no idea how long this, how long this shot for. I don't know the budget. I, yeah. Yeah, I don't quite remember the budget. but I know it did not make a whole lot,

at least not by today's terms, adjusted for inflation. I think it was around 150, $160 million, which I don't think this even shown in theaters to be fair, which I guess would have been really good considering that. It didn't? For some reason, I don't think it did. I could be completely wrong about that.

Let me go ahead and give a quick search on that. I don't know, 90s Disney movies. were kind of weird. They had a lot of direct stuff. Yeah, it was either like direct to video or made for TV movies. I guess technically that wasn't Disney itself. That was more so a like an ABC family thing, which was Disney. ABC family did a lot of like made for TV.

Yeah. I mean, this was during Disney, like Disney Channel's heyday. From what I'm seeing here, yeah, it premiered directly on Disney Channel. So yes, this was Disney Channel's heyday. So it does make sense just to release it directly on their own channel. They can make a full big budget movie and have the viewership to release it directly on their own channel. not have to worry about, you know, getting all the deals with the theaters and all that extra bullshit. They can just boom in and out, which kind of makes me feel like they probably shot it pretty quick. No, I could certainly believe that. I mean, this was, you know, like Netflix originals before it was really even a thing or, you know, a industrial, industry concept, excuse me.

Now, that being said, so I watched it on Disney Plus. Usually a telltale sign that it was a TV movie is it's shot in 4x3. It's usually shot on tape. This was widescreen. I don't know. Did you watch it on Disney? Disney Plus? Yes.

I can't. I don't remember. No, I know for damn sure. I watched this on Disney Channel. when I was a kid. Because, like I said, they were promoting it. I don't remember if I had it on VHS. This definitely feels like, definitely feels like something I had on VHS.

Now, that being said, this is the late 90s, where for some reason, there was this big jungle and primate movement in the 90s. I remember one of my all-time favorite movies as a kid was called Mom Can I Keep Her? And it was just about, it was the boy from Malcolm in the middle. Reese, I believe his name was in Malcolm in the middle. And he like found this. I can't, I can't remember what kind of primate. Might have been an ape.

So I don't remember. And he was like hiding this fucking, this. primate. You had Tarzan, which I believe came out in 99. Yes. Mighty Joe Young, which I believe is 97 as well. 98. 98?

Okay. But it just amazed me that there are so many primate movies in the late 90s. Yeah, it was definitely for some reason some kind of hot topic. According to Google, they were just popular in the 90s just due to a combination of the public being fascinated with it, advancements in special effects technology, and the appeal of kid and animal movies, which there were quite a few kid and animal movies.

I mean, think about it, like you had Homeward Bound, you had, um, what was it, Babe, Babe vitamin 80s, Oliver and friends, so many, you know,

animal themed movies. All dogs go to heaven, all in this, like, short time period. This movie is mostly visual comedy. Like, yeah,

it is, I don't I can't think of the word for it Slapstick So yes Slapstick is The visual comedy But there's also There's fourth wall breaks in this movie

A lot Yeah you're right actually I forgot about that Honestly more than two Is a lot of fourth wall breaks in a single movie It gets a little Much When they just look down

the barrel of the camera and they just say some shit to you. It's definitely a 90s comedy movie. And I can't tell it if it flutters on that like four kids with those fourth wall breaks and then trying to be funny for everyone involved with those hypersexual jokes as well. I don't necessarily think all of them land for me. But yeah, that's just me. Now, one thing that I will say, compared to our last episode, we are going to be changing up our format a little bit. We're not going to go so much as scene per scene, but we're going to pick out some of the scenes that we found funny,

that we want to make fun of, that we, you know, stick out to us in some, in some way that we want to talk about. We don't have to talk about every single scene. You should still want to watch the movie instead of us just telling you what happens in the movie. That being said, do you think you're ready to start? Yeah, let's go for it. All right. can you read the description of this movie from IMDB? I have a terrible memory, so let me go ahead to bring that up.

It is right at the top. All right. It's a single line. I thought it was going to be more. Yeah, yeah. I was expecting like a paragraph or something, but no, it's a man raised in the jungle by apes, falls in love with a wealthy American heiress. Which I don't feel like, like, that is scratch.

the surface of this fucking movie. It is, but it isn't. Because almost the entire movie does revolve around him and his relationship with this woman. Right. But how does the woman get there? Like, what is the reasoning for all of it? I honestly, I couldn't, I don't really remember. I think she was, I can't remember if she was a vacation or if she was studying something.

No, it's never really explained. We'll get into that. We'll talk about that in a second. I want to talk about this fucking opening scene. Okay, first of all, when was the Pokemon episode? What do you mean? The one, the band. It was banned, so I don't think of shown.

I don't know. Are you talking about the one that was too close to 9-11, or are you talking about the one that was giving people seizures? Giving people seizures. It was one of the, it's like the first season, I want to say. So it would have been like right around that time. Okay. Because this opening sequence. So this opening sequence is animated.

We first meet our narrator here, which I don't know about you, but I want to reach through the fucking screen and slap the shit out of this narrator. He pisses me off for some reason. But we'll get to that in a minute. The flashing in this. In this opening sequence made me ill. I had to look away. It was just like blue flashing lights while it says Georgia the jungle.

I'm not an epileptic, but it gave me some issues. Did you just open it and watch it? I did. I had to get the reminder. And yeah, you're right. It's, it's kind of jarring. Yeah, it's, it's, I think it might just be, it doesn't make me uncomfortable. It might just be the color palette.

because it's just this deep blue and if I remember correctly yellow letters on top of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yellowish orange. Yeah. It comes out of nowhere too. It's, it's just like boom, but but boom. But then we kick up with the fucking music. The George, George, Georgia, the jungle.

And that shit's just stuck in your head for the next two months. It's catchy. It's an airworm for sure. It definitely. And that opening theme is from the 1960s cartoon. That George George. So that is ripped almost directly from, there's more lines in the 1960s.

And, you know, it sounds significantly worse. But that's, to be expected, that's 30 years of, oh, damn, almost exactly 30 years of, recording improvements. Yeah, no, it would have been, yeah, just about. Yeah. Basically, you, I don't know if they ever. Does the narrator say what happened that George landed in the jungle, or is it just a visual thing?

You know, I don't quite remember. I know they definitely show it visually. I feel like, yeah, I'm sure they did. It doesn't really matter anyway. All you need to know is that there is a boy that is raised like a baby that is raised by primates. And we cut to him, he's probably what, 25 when we cut to live action? Yeah, probably around that time frame 20, 25. Okay.

So we're talking about wild animals here, right? one thing that we know about wild animals, especially wild primates, is they are horny. So do you think that he was fucking those primates? Do you think that there was like this whole big orgy? Well, that was definitely not the first thing that came to my mind. But now that you can bring it up, probably, I don't know.

So later on, when he first meets Ursula, he does the like mating dance with her. And later on he's talking to ape, which there's an ape named ape in this fucking movie. Anyway, he's talking to ape and ape's like, did you throw the leaves? It's like, yes, I threw the leaves.

Like, he could not wrap it around his head that it didn't work this time. You know, it, it's like, Nobody ever turns me down. That's at least what I got from it. So obviously he's out there fucking. That's fair. I mean, look at him, those chiseled pecks, those abs, when does he have like an eight pack? What girl I wouldn't want to be with that?

We're talking about primates, though. So I do want to talk a little bit about the characters real quick. You meet Ursula, who is his love interest. you meet her fiance whose name doesn't matter because he kind of fucks off halfway through the movie he's this like pompous asshole is he British I don't really remember no I don't believe so I think he was no an American so she's in the jungle for God knows what I don't know if she's studying or whatnot but she has like a local tour group with her.

And these are some of my favorite people in the movie because they just rip into her fucking fiance constantly. There's one scene where like he's over here like, I can't remember what he was saying. Oh, it was about his camera.

He's like, look, I take picture of you and magic picture come through and magic window box and the guy starts speaking in his native language and you know, shitty fiance, he's like,

what, uh, what'd you say, or translation please. He's like, well, he says, he likes your magic pictures,

but he prefers the resolution of his Nikon. He's like, also your lens is dirty, but he has the equipment to clean it for you. It's just such a good gag of like, this pompous asshole thinking. that he is better than everything and then gets shown up by somebody

who later you find out does speak English, the same language that this man is talking, just chooses not to, which is funny. There's also a gag of like that pompous asshole trips and falls into shit, like face first into shit.

And that same man from the tour guide looks dead in the camera. I think this is our first, fourth wall break, But he looks dead in the camera and just goes, bad man, fallen poop. Now we throw our heads back and laugh. And they do. They just throw their head back and laugh.

But I don't. I feel like this is the best part of the in the jungle part. Yeah. I can definitely agree with that. Those are the moments that I remember most from my childhood. And I think the moments that are funniest. Yep. So where is it that they go?

they go to San Francisco, right? Yeah, I believe so. Okay. I remember watching this, like, for when I started watching this for the podcast, I was honestly, is this the one where they take him to, I thought it was New York. I'm like, no, that has to be the second one. They wouldn't do that in this. No, they take him to San Francisco.

Basically, he gets shot by the fiancé. because Ursula definitely want to fuck him. His fiance gets all butt hurt about it. And he gets arrested. They take George over to San Francisco to get fucking medical help. But he gets shot and they just have like this little bandage on his head. So what was the point of needing to go get medical help if he just he's this little fucking bandage.

And I don't even think you see him get medical help. I think they go right to his apartment. Yeah. I mean, it could have been a trope on just who he is as a character. He thinks he needs to go back to America to get the best medical help. Or, you know,

it could just be that it wasn't really anything important. And, yeah, he was just that much of a baby for lack of a better term. Honestly, I think it was all Ursula. I think Ursula just wanted that dick. She's like my fiance's in jail.

I'm gonna just start boning this dude. And they're calling him the great white ape in the beginning. They're off looking for a great white ape. Like, it's not racist. Yeah, there's definitely some undertones there. I think a lot of that stems from the original Tarzan and how that kind of came across. Yeah. I can see that, yeah.

The, um, once they get to America, he's, there's a scene where he's taking a shower and one of Ursula's friends comes over. And this is kind of where you first get the hint of, she's really in love with this dude. The friend comes over, the friend's like, where's your new friend? And Ursula goes, he's under the waterfall he's taking a shower and then the

the friend looks up not anymore and he's just standing there naked and that's when the friend's like I see why they made him the king of the jungle and she's like basically are you fucking him

Ursula's like no can I It's just, okay, calm down. You don't have to jump his bones right now. We don't have to see this. And it kind of goes on for an uncomfortable long amount of time. There's another scene that goes on way longer and is way more uncomfortable for me. But we'll get there in a little bit.

Actually, I'm kind of out of scenes in between. Are there any coming to your mind? not particularly I just like I don't know Like it's one of those things where I I look back at this movie Very favorably Even just after a short period of time A lot of the scenes just gloss over in my head

Like I can't really remember details I just remember fun time Okay there's a reason Why that happens Why everything just kind of disappears As soon as you stop watching it And that's Honestly, because it's too much physical comedy.

Okay. The scenes themselves don't have a lot of meat to them. If you take out the physical comedy out of this film, you'll probably only have a 20-minute movie. I mean, that's fair. I can see that. Like, I can sum up the whole movie in a couple sentences. Lady goes to research the jungle, finds a man raised by apes, takes the man back to San Francisco.

The man tries to become custom and cannot break his ape ways. They go back to the jungle. They fall in love and they get married. Yeah. I mean, that's pretty much the, yeah. Yeah. You can, you can just, you could straight up just throw like a two word, a couple word, like throw in comedy in the middle.

And then, yeah, that's the whole point in the movie. Yeah, it's like, it's like woman meets man raised by eight, hijinks, and sue. Yeah, exactly. That's pretty much a perfect description. Like, that's all it is. There's a scene where I believe it's the Golden Gate Bridge, a parachute is stuck on the bridge. So George, I don't even know where he got the ropes, but he's swinging across the Golden Gate Bridge to save this man. And they're seeing it on the news.

We didn't need that scene at all. It does absolutely nothing for the movie. It's just his stick. Yeah. He just wants to swing from vines for some reason. Now, one thing, I will say, Lyle, that's the fiancé's name. So Ursula, there's this whole side plot where Ursula's mom is excited for the wedding. and Ursula doesn't tell her mom that he's in jail.

And it's just this constant thing of like, oh yeah, he's got some legal trouble. It'll be fine. He's just taking care of a few things. He's not available right now. But then, you know,

Ursula is out hugging George and the mom happens to drive by and sees it. And she's like, you two-timing bitch. And it's just, it's this constant thing of Ursula's trying to convince her mother that nothing's happening. The mother is hell set that there is something happening. And they're going back and forth on it. Now, the dad, Ursula's dad, has this fucking great scene.

He barely talks in this whole movie. And then at the end, shouldn't say at the end, maybe. the climax of the movie. So the, the mother is like, listen, you and my daughter are not from the same class at all.

You need to go back to wherever the fuck you came from and leave my daughter alone. She needs to marry the wealth that she deserves. In more words, she says some shit about spots, marrying spots and stripes,

marrying stripes. But she starts telling this same thing to Ursula, later because George fucks off. He goes back to the jungle, mostly because ape got kidnapped. And he's trying to get sold. So he goes back to the jungle. She gets all upset.

Like, why did he leave? Her mom's like, it was stupid to be in love with this man anyway. And Ursula's like, and the mom's like, no, no, no, no, don't. She's like, I do love him. and that's when she realizes that she's in love with this dude. So Ursula's mom is like, you cannot do this, all this other shit. And she turns to the dad whose name, I don't know. He only has like two lines in the fucking movie that I can remember, but they are my favorite two lines.

And she's like, Harold, I don't know if that's a real name. Like, stop her. all I can say is Go have fun honey And the wife's like What? How do you? And she runs off after Ursula

And the husband just goes God she's a pain in the ass This walks away I'm like thank God somebody said it That wasn't the narrator Because I swear to God This narrator doesn't shut the fuck up He's supposed to be part of the comic relief

I'm sorry you don't need comic relief in this movie because everything's a comic relief. Even the bad guy, Lyle, is the comic relief. It's too much. That's fair. You're getting comedy from every character almost. Yeah, it's almost like comedic whiplash. That's a good way to put that.

Sometimes the joke is on Lyle. Sometimes the joke is Lyle. one of the jokes is he has a lighter that's shaped like a pistol and that's the whole reason he ends up shooting George in the first place in the beginning is because he thinks that it's his lighter and he's too much of a pussy to actually pull the fucking gun anyway but one of the tour guides mixes up the guns gives Lyle what he thought was the lighter was actually the gun

when that gun fires you can see he like shits his pants. He gets so fucking scared. He's like, oh my God, I fired a weapon. Shut the fuck up. But yeah, there's not too much to actually talk about this movie without the seeing the physical comedy. Like we already said, it's just there.

No, 100%. It's the kind of thing you do have to experience. It's like one of those movies where it's so bad it's good. It's so stupid. It's funny kind of things. Fair. Yeah. I mean, any other facts, any other tidbits you felt interesting you want to share?

I don't really think so. They get married. They have that dumb little after credit scene where Ape is singing my way to Vegas. Like, it's, I don't need a lot of it. No, I mean, that's fair. I will just say, in his. definitely a movie I recommend. I enjoyed it.

I enjoyed it as a child. I enjoyed it now. But it is definitely one of those, you know, you're going to not really remember any of it. You're just going to enjoy it while you watch it. And I will say ape. The ape is his whole name is actually an ape named ape. Like that's his actual name.

Okay. Jesus. That's the more of that humor that is so in your face and so, over the top all the time. But yeah, that's his actual name. It's an ape named ape. Jeez,

we're talking about it. I'm telling you, like, we will get to this scene and I forgot about the scene. Like that, that's how forgettable some of this stuff is. It's, and I don't want to,

I don't want to, like, decredit this movie. I don't think that it's forgettable, for say. It's just so much shit getting thrown at you so fast. that it's hard to remember anything that actually matters. No, 100%.

That's, it's a good point. Like, we're coming off very critical of this movie, but it is definitely a good watch. I do recommend it. It is fun, but it's not,

it's not high brow. It's not going to, you know, change your life. It's just a good flick. Fair. Now, the scene that I did want to bring up,

it's adoring Ursula's, what do you call? all that, bridal shower, I would say. George is outside playing with a horse. And there is, I'd say maybe 20 women around this stable, just watching him. And they're all just like, God, look how sexy that man is. It's like, wouldn't I, I would love to just hop over this and just eat his dick right now. And just, just talking all this weird sexual shit without being sexual because it

It's still PG. I think there's only two answers to that. Either one, it was just the showmakers, the filmmakers, way of getting back at men, objectifying women so much. Or, I can't think of the second thing now. Eat a Twix. You're not you when you're hungry. That's Snickers.

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Twix guy. They're both the fucking same, man. I don't give a shit. I'll shove both of them up my ass. I don't get fuck. Yeah, I really can't remember the second point I was going to make. That's fine. I don't even remember.

Oh. But yeah, so all these women are standing around and they're talking about like, oh, God, look how sexy he is. I want to jump his bones right now. Like him and the horse, I would take both of them right now. And the, uh, the camera pans back. and there's two guys just looking at them, at the women,

and they're just like, wow, women do love their horses, don't they? And that's just the type of comedy. Like, they don't even notice that there's a fucking man there,

that they're, like, wushing over. Any other scenes that you want to bring up? None specifically. However, any scene with Ape, I really enjoy.

I think Ape might be my favorite character in this movie. It reminds me. Because I was about to say, like, you can tell that it's, it's a man in a, you know, suit. But it does look really good. Do you know who did the special effects for this movie? It was a popular, like a famous studio or company, but I don't know who specifically. It was Jim Henson.

Does that name ring any bells to you? It does, but I can't quite place what he did. The Muppets. So he is definitely well-versed in puppets, animatronics, that type of stuff. He's done so much, too. For some reason, I can't think of anything right off the top of my head. Well, he did want the Muppets. Yeah.

Honestly, this is probably not much he hasn't been involved with if it involves a puppet. I'm sorry. Technically, he wasn't involved with this movie. I should say that. I'm on his studio or... Yes. It was the Jim Henson company. Jim Henson passed away in 1990s.

Damn, he passed away at 53 years old. Wow. From pneumonia. Hmm. Um, no, but yeah, just looking at some of the credits here, you got obviously the Muppets, Labyrinth. Yep. Another good movie. The Dark Crystal.

Mm-hmm. Another childhood classic of mine. Really? So, little behind that little tidbit, I didn't watch the dark crystal until probably five or six years ago. I remember being alone in my apartment when I was living by myself in that little two-bedroom apartment. And I remember it being super late at night. I decided to watch it I probably watched it when I had that projector set up

and it was all dark and weird because it was a shitty projector that movie gave me nightmares as a what 25 year old man for way longer than what I would like to admit yeah there was it definitely had some creepy vibes I remember as a child like creeping me out but it was

still I still liked it. I don't know. And I mean, a couple years ago, they ended up making a mini series. Yes. As I think a sequel or a prequel. I want to say that I watched it when that mini series, right before that mini series came out. I want to say that's why I watched it in the first place. Makes sense.

I have not seen the series, but I've heard good things about it. I have not either. I got too creeped out by the movie itself. That's fair. the other one that gave me nightmares for some reason was never-ending story which is another movie that I didn't watch until way later now you want to talk about a movie they gave me nightmares I was probably 16 when I watched it

maybe maybe a little bit younger definitely during the times when like I was smoking a lot of weed and it's it's a movie that like most people don't know exist for some reason i skipped out on the well-known ones and i was watching the ones that people don't really know but like i remember being high as fuck watching this movie and just like being terrified as a teenager for like like scared to go to sleep type deal and that was Return to Oz. Have you ever seen that?

I have not, but I have heard. Yeah, it was a really weird movie. Yeah, it is. I believe it's on Disney Plus, so we can watch it as adults at any moment. We do have free will. Yeah, and I think we're going to use that free will to probably not watch it. Yeah, no, that's the whole point of this podcast, forcing you to watch movies you don't want to. Well, you can't blame me for trying.

I mean, to be fair, and you got me to watch Baskin case, so. Which, I mean, that was a good movie. It was so bad, it was good. I wouldn't even say that it was bad that it was good. It was definitely, like, they truly tried. And for the amount of money that they made that movie for, I think it was really good. I think we have different qualifiers. on that.

Fair. Hey, whenever you say. All right. So I out of five stars. What would you get this? George, George, George is a jungle. I would have to give a...

Yeah, that's where I was going. I have to give it a four. Yeah. Yeah. Is it just like the nostalgia factor? Nostalgia, I'm sure, plays into it. A lot of it is just... I think I like slapstick company, truth be told.

and I think it gives it a four. If I was looking at it from a more, if I would separate this into enjoyment factor versus good film and film direction and all that, film direction and stuff, like filmography, probably a two,

but just as a consumer of the product, four. Okay, probably gonna cut it down two and a half three. It was a little too heavy on the slapstick. not just the slapstick. It was a little too heavy on the just like rapid fire comedy. I would have liked a little bit more of a story.

Like there was a story there, but it's almost like, I feel like it's an insult to my intelligence on this story. Because it's just like, who cares? Just look at this funny thing that happens. I mean, that's fair.

It's definitely that kind of movie, though, I would say. Yeah. But at the same time, you watch something like Airplane, which is a comedy parody film. And it's another one of those like rapid fire back to back. But I will quote Airplane every day compared to... To be fair, look in the demographics. I mean, George's Jungle was what a PG film directed at? kids. Airplane was a comedy directed at adults. Fair. Yeah. I think it's just ultimately comes down to where their demographic was. Yeah. Here's my issue with that. Yes, it was directed towards kids, but the amount of sexuality that this thing leaks, I don't think it's a kids movie. So one of the things that I was honestly thinking about is the generation of children today, how much brain rot shit that they have with the random YouTube's.

Like my niece will watch these YouTube videos. She's, I believe, three or four. And I'm not in any position to tell them like maybe. she shouldn't be watching that. But some of the things that I hear come out of this phone that she's watching is just like, what the fuck is happening? But my thought was with all that brain rotten shit, I wonder if children would still find this movie enjoyable.

But then I decided I don't want to subject my nieces and nephew to this movie because, like, it's just way too sexual. Like, I think if it wasn't as sexual as it was, I think it would be higher on the scale. I mean, that's, I can definitely see that. I mean, this is ultimately, I think, one of those, one of those questions that come into play where Armenia is both a sign of the times, but it's also shows where the society is heading at the whole. and maybe there's something good looking, you know, reen into that. Maybe this went too far. Maybe this is just showing where we were going.

Yeah. Now, you did say something earlier that I do like. If you look at it through the lens of it's a play on the over-sexualization of women and they're reversing gender roles, I think that's pretty cool. if you look at it through that way, I think it's probably not what the filmmakers were thinking, but if they were, it was a pretty progressive thought for the 90s.

Was this, it was directed by a man, but I believe one of the writers, at least one of the writers, I believe, was a female. I mean, that's true. I mean, all I'm going to say is this was in 90s. I don't think he was a mega star yet, but pretty sure.

this is where Brad Pitt was starting to come up to. That's fair, yeah. There's quite a few, what do they call him, heartthrobs. That's true, yeah. So one of the writers was Audrey Wells. She was, so she was born on January 25th, 1960. She wrote, The Hate You Give, Guinevere, and Georgia the Jungle. I'm bringing all of this up because she passed away in 2018.

So rest in peace, Audrey Wells. I'm going to credit you for the role reversal in this movie. I don't know if it was you, but I will thank you for that. Now, that being said, would you watch this again? Yeah. Yeah, I definitely would. You think in like a yearly watch, monthly? Definitely not monthly, but I can definitely see it being a every year or every other.

now and then yeah okay so not something like you have to watch it yearly but you wouldn't mind seeing it certainly not going to be a movie I make a habit of but definitely something I'll enjoy now and then okay personally I don't necessarily think I need it it was fun but it's so forgettable that I feel like it it is just a waste of time

in my opinion I think if you find like a super clip on YouTube or something of just like some of the funniest scenes I think you'd be fine I don't think you actually need to watch it

or shit you could probably find a like a TV cut of it where it cuts it down from I think it I think it runs at like two hours but if you can find a TV cut where it runs it an hour 40

hour and a half I think that would be perfect. Are you looking up runtime right now? Yeah, I thought it was an hour and a half or any, but yeah, TV might have cut down more. I remember looking at it and being like, holy fuck, this is a long-ass movie. Yeah, no, just an hour and a half. Just an hour and a half? Yeah, 92 minutes, I believe it was.

Jesus Christ, okay. All right, do you have anything else you want to say about the movie? I think that about covers it. I think so as well. So that has been Georgia the Jungle from 1997, starring Brendan Frazier, Leslie Mann. And John Cleese, Ape the Eighth. If you like this podcast, you want to hear more like it. Please subscribe, rate, review.

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