Synopsis
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. Armed with only his blowgun, the 13-year-old Mimi-Siku discovers that the world outside his jungle home is indeed a strange place.
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Cast
- Tim AllenMichael Cromwell
- Martin ShortRichard Kempster
- JoBeth WilliamsDr. Patricia Cromwell
- Lolita DavidovichCharlotte
- Sam HuntingtonMimi-Siku
- David Ogden StiersAlexei Jovanovic
- Bob DishyGeorge Langston
- Valerie MahaffeyJan Kempster
- Leelee SobieskiKaren Kempster
- Frankie J. GalassoAndrew Kempster
Recommendations
- 70
Los Angeles Times
Beautifully designed and well-crafted, Jungle 2 Jungle is arguably the equal of the French original and perhaps even better, thanks to Tim Allen. - 63
Chicago Reader
The humor is often predictable--minor characters are stereotyped only to be demeaned for easy laughs--but the movie impressively fulfills its larger purpose of making you look at your culture's conventions as such. - 50
Variety
An extremely handsome physical production, with breathtaking Venezuelan vistas by Tony Pierce-Roberts, Jungle 2 Jungle is an otherwise modest effort. Simple truths are often the most effective, but in this instance they are only banal and mildly amusing. - 50
The New York Times
Jungle 2 Jungle' still finds time to appreciate Mr. Allen's easy way with a child actor, an audience or a heavily tranquilized pet cat. - 50
TV Guide Magazine
This very Disney treatment of the classic fish out of water story ought to satisfy its intended audiences: kids and the parents who must accompany them. - 50
Washington Post
The funny moments come and go quickly and the bland ones drag on too long. - 40
Empire
It does become marginally less cringe-making in the latter half, but aside from a hilarious set piece involving a cat/tranquilliser dart interface and a vaguely entertaining Russian Mafia subplot, this is tired stuff which should have stayed at home. - 37
Washington Post
Disney just doesn't know when to give up on a dead project, which is the only thing that accounts for the studio's scene-for-scene remake of Little Indian, Big City, a French farce the corporation dubbed and released exactly one year ago. (It sank faster than a canoe full of Fantasia hippos.)
