Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
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20% of critics liked it
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A man finds the son he never knew he had, and a boy discovers a city he never knew existed, in this comedy. Michael Cromwell (Tim Allen) is a commodities broker who deals in coffee beans; while on a trip to Brazil, Michael is abandoned by his wife, Patricia (JoBeth Williams), an anthropologist who… More A man finds the son he never knew he had, and a boy discovers a city he never knew existed, in this comedy. Michael Cromwell (Tim Allen) is a commodities broker who deals in coffee beans; while on a trip to Brazil, Michael is abandoned by his wife, Patricia (JoBeth Williams), an anthropologist who decides to stay behind to study the indigenous tribespeople of the area. Fourteen years later, Michael has decided to marry his new girlfriend, Charlotte (Lolita Davidovich), but since he never formally divorced Patricia, he must go to Brazil, find her, and get her to sign a divorce agreement. Once he arrives, he discovers that there's a bit of a complication -- Patricia was pregnant at the time she left Michael, and she is now the mother of a 13-year-old son, Mimi-Siku (Sam Huntington). Mimi-Siku is about to undergo the manhood rituals of the tribe that adopted Patricia and himself, and when the leader discovers that the boy's father has arrived, he insists that Mimi-Siku should return to the "Stone Island" of Manhattan to get to know his dad. Arriving in New York City with a loincloth and a blowgun, Mimi-Siku has a lot to learn about living in contemporary America. Charlotte is not too happy about discovering that she's about to be a stepmother, while Richard (Martin Short), Michael's business partner, wishes the boy wouldn't eat the tropical fish from his aquarium. Jungle 2 Jungle is an Americanized remake of the French comedy Un Indien Dans la Ville. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- Directed By
- John Pasquin
- Written By
- Hervé Palud, Igor Aptekman, Thierry Lhermitte, Philippe Bruneau, Bruce A. Evans
- Genres
- Comedy, Kids & Family
PG,
- In Theaters
- Mar 7, 1997 Wide
Critic Reviews
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Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
Gently humorous and moving.
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Kevin McManus, Washington Post
Roughly half of Tim Allen's latest comedy is hilarious-stupid, and the rest is monotonous-stupid.
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Leonard Klady, Variety
Simple truths are often the most effective, but in this instance they are only banal and mildly amusing.
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Trevor Johnston, Time Out
Typically for Disney, the villains aren't made of very stern stuff, nor indeed is fey spear-carrying Mimi-Siku.
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Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle
Mildly caustic, sentimental and slow.
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Cast
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Tim Allen
as Michael Cromwell
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Martin Short
as Richard Kempster
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JoBeth Williams
as Dr. Patricia Cromwell
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Lolita Davidovich
as Charlotte
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Sam Huntington
as Mimi-Siku
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David Ogden Stiers
as Alexei Jovanovic
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Dominic Keating
as Ian
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Luis Avalos
as Abe
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Bob Dishy
as George Langston
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Valerie Mahaffey
as Jan Kempster
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Carole Shelley
as Fiona
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Frankie J. Galasso
as Andrew Kempster
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Leelee Sobieski
as Karen Kempster
