George of the Jungle” is a movie that makes you long for the old TV cartoon series on which it ... heroic jungle hero who kept yodeling bull-ape cries, swinging on vines and inevitably crashing ...

Brendan Fraser was once one of Hollywood’s hottest actors, known for films like Encino Man and George of the Jungle ... “How do you act a cartoon character?” Fraser begins with a rhetorical ...

But while watching a cartoon ... in the jungle when a plane crashed. The back story closely parallels Edgar Rice Burrough’s tale of the origin of Tarzan, with George being raised by apes.

Deep in the African jungle ... by gorillas. George grows up to be a buff and lovable klutz who has a rainforest full of animal friends: Tookie, his big-beaked toucan messenger; Ape, a witty ...

This time, instead of Saturday mornings on ABC, “George of the Jungle” debuts at 7:30 p.m. Friday on Cartoon Network and plays regularly on the channel after that. Instead of George and his ...

Anyone familiar with the Tarzan spoof cartoon series ... John Cleese is an added joy as the voice of George's smarter ape brother. Fraser is comic, hunky and engaging, the CGI, puppet and real ...

It’s been 40 years now since Jay Ward created “George of the Jungle,” with its goofy Tarzan ... where Goerge, his ape buddy Ape, his dog Shep (an elephant) and female pal Ursula have always ...

Still, it's short and shallow. While younger gamers who know the George of the Jungle cartoon will probably enjoy the brief jungle visit, the experience is so brief everyone else will swing ...

Much like George of the Jungle the movie, we suspect this would ... Though Ward created his cartoons to provide cheap laughs in between cereal commercials, he could never have guessed it would ...