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- JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE, a sometimes ponderous comedy, may have been a delightful soufflé in the original French version, but it falls flat as a pancake in the American translation. The often leaden humor may not bother kids, but parents may groan at some of the film's depictions of ethnic stereotypes.
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Roger Ebert was disappointed by the film, giving it one star out of four, a small step from his original zero star rating for Little Indian, Big City. [2] On his television program Siskel and Ebert, Ebert said Jungle 2 Jungle was not as bad as Little Indian, Big City because it was "far too mediocre to be terrible."
Mar 7, 1997 · The plot of “Jungle 2 Jungle” has been removed from a French film called “ Little Indian, Big City “. The operation was a failure and the patient dies. The only reason I am rating this movie at one star while “Little Indian, Big City” received zero stars is that “Jungle 2 Jungle” is too mediocre to deserve zero stars.
Parents need to know that kids will see some ethnic stereotypes and violence, mainly slapstick and broadly comedic fighting. A cat is knocked unconscious. Russian Mafia thugs wave guns and knives, threatening the main characters, but scenes involving bad guys are cartoonish and played for humor.
- Jobeth Williams, Martin Short, Tim Allen
- John Pasquin
- Walt Disney Pictures
Jul 29, 2024 · Ebert called Jungle 2 Jungle “lamebrained, boring, predictable, long, and slow,” and his colleague Gene Siskel went as far as declaring it the worst film of 1997. As someone who generally doesn’t enjoy Tim Allen’s comedic style (with the exceptions of Galaxy Quest and maybe the first Santa Clause movie), Jungle 2 Jungle was a painful ...
Although "Jungle 2 Jungle" features the typically high Disney production standards, it's offensive and disastrous. Tim Allen just coasts through playing commodities broker in New York City who tracks down his estranged wife to the Amazon jungle; there, he finds for the first time he has fathered a son.
On his television program Siskel and Ebert, Ebert said Jungle 2 Jungle was not as bad as Little Indian, Big City because it was "far too mediocre to be terrible." He also described it as "lamebrained, boring, predictable, long, and slow", and added that while the French version was memorably bad, Jungle 2 Jungle was "just forgettable".
Directed by John Pasquin. The big city is about to get a little savage. Uptight New York City executive, Michael Cromwell, pursues his soon-to-be ex-wife to South America and returns home with the son he never knew he had—a boy raised in a tribal village in Brazil.
