Movies like George of the Jungle 1997

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George of the Jungle (1997)
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George of the Jungle (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Baby George got into a plane crash in a jungle, stayed alive and was adopted by a wise ape. Ursula Stanhope, US noble woman is saved from death on safari by grown-up George, and he takes her to jungle to live with him. He slowly learns a rules of human relationships, while Ursula's lover Lyle is looking for her and the one who took her. After they are found, Ursula takes George to the USA.
Style: slapstick comedy, humorous, parody, spoof, slapstick, feel good, semi serious, funny, light, absurd ...
Audience: family outing, teens, family friendly, kids, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: jungle, fish out of water, childhood, tarzan, rescue, gorilla, goofy hero, elephant, heiress, friendship, monkey, happy ending, treasure hunt, lion, air disaster, lgbt, wild animal, lost world, profanity, explorer, treasure hunter, child, damsel in distress, animal, ape ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: san francisco, africa, usa, las vegas
Keyword: reboot, oldies

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, light and semi serious films with plots about rescue, danger, escapades, disorder, heroes, live action and childhood mostly in Comedy, Family and Adventure genres. Some movies like George of the Jungle: The Jungle Book (1994), Muppet Treasure Island (1996), The Lost City (2022), Jungle 2 Jungle (1997), The Jewel of the Nile (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Jungle Book (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Raised by wild animals since childhood, Mowgli is drawn away from the jungle by the beautiful Kitty. But Mowgli must eventually face corrupt Capt. Boone, who wants both Kitty's hand and the treasures of Monkey City – a place only Mowgli can ...
Style: intense, tense, semi serious, stylized, cute ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: jungle, friendship, treasure hunt, survival, self discovery, orphan, wilderness, animal, tiger, treasure, fish out of water, jungle book ...
Time: 90s, victorian era, 19th century, year 1994
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Muppet Treasure Island (1996)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After telling the story of Flint's last journey to young Jim Hawkins, Billy Bones has a heart attack and dies just as Jim and his friends are attacked by pirates. The gang escapes into the town where they hire out a boat and crew to find the ...
Style: light, exciting, humorous, sweet, light hearted ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, date night, family outing, adult ...
Plot: muppets, childhood, island, swashbuckler, puppet, puppetry, youth, ship, water, treasure hunter, hunter, treasure hunt ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1996
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Lost City (2022)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Follows a reclusive romance novelist who was sure nothing could be worse than getting stuck on a book tour with her cover model, until a kidnapping attempt sweeps them both into a cutthroat jungle adventure, proving life can be so much stranger, and ...
Style: unusual plot structure, funny, feel good, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick, family friendly
Plot: treasure hunt, treasure, kidnapping, jungle, snake, novelist, cargo plane, hidden treasure, bodyguard, woman in jeopardy, volcano, agoraphobia ...
Time: 2020s, future
Place: fictional island, canary islands
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: George and Ursula now have a son, George Junior, so Ursula's mother arrives to try and take them back to "civilization".
Style: humorous, feel good, not serious, spoof
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: jungle, treasure hunt, fish out of water, friendship, gambling, escapades, buddies, nothing goes right, mischievous children, disorder, imaginary kingdom, goofy hero ...
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Jungle 2 Jungle (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: light, funny, feel good, entertaining, epic ...
Audience: teens, kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing ...
Plot: fish out of water, jungle, culture clash, childhood, teenage boy, eccentric family, parents and children, mischievous children, disorder, nothing goes right, youth, 13 year old ...
Time: 90s, year 1997
Place: new york, venezuela, usa, latin america, brazil ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course he's ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, romantic, light, feel good ...
Audience: date night, kids, family outing, teens, boys' night ...
Plot: treasure hunt, adventurer, archaeologist, desert, treasure, couple relations, love and romance, novelist, culture clash, escapades, happy ending, writer's life ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: africa, middle east, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 444K
King Kong (2005)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand, Germany
Duration: 187 min.
Story: In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel to mysterious Skull Island, where they encounter Kong, a giant ape who is immediately smitten with the leading lady.
Style: sentimental, scenic, suspense, emotional, epic ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, manly, boys' night ...
Plot: creature, jungle, dinosaur, king kong, monster, beast, gorilla, giant ape, island, rescue, giant animal, monkey ...
Time: year 2005, 1930s, prehistoric times, jurassic, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, fictional island, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Dudley Do-Right (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a ...
Style: humorous, satirical, intense, light, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens
Plot: gold rush, stereotypes, village life, cons and scams, goofy hero, escapades, mountie, u.s. canadian border, gold, destiny, bomb squad, batman ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: seattle, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Romancing the Stone (1984)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her ...
Style: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night, family outing, adult
Plot: treasure hunt, jungle, unlikely couple, opposites attract, escapades, adventurer, travel, chase, stranded, map, treasure, gem ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: south america, colombia, new york, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Inspector Gadget (1999)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: John Brown is a bumbling but well-intentioned security guard who is badly injured in an explosion planned by an evil mastermind. He is taken to a laboratory, where Brenda, a leading robotics surgeon, replaces his damaged limbs with state-of-the-art ...
Style: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, teens
Plot: good versus evil, superhero, rescue, robot, superhuman powers, escapades, undercover, goofy hero, fighting crime, secret identity, imaginary, master villain ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Homeward Bound II: Lost in San Francisco (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When the pets accidentally get separated from their vacationing owners, Chance, Shadow, and Sassy navigate the mean streets of San Francisco, trying to find their home across the Golden Gate Bridge. But the road is blocked by a series of hazards, ...
Style: retro, hilarious, exciting, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: dog, animal, pets, childhood, talking dog, lost dog, talking cat, heartwarming, road trip, cat, meme, canine ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, bay area, canada, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.8
 3K
Buddy (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An eccentric socialite raises a gorilla as her son.
Style: light, semi serious, touching, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: gorilla, animal, zoo, socialite, friendship, unlikely friendships, adaptation, wilderness, family relations, jungle, kids and family, camp ...
Time: 1920s, year 1997, 90s, 1930s
Place: usa, chicago, new york, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Garfield: A Tail of Two Kitties (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Garfield is back and this time Garfield and his canine sidekick Odie follows their owner, Jon Arbuckle, to England, the U.K. may never recover, as Garfield is mistaken for a look-alike, regal cat who has inherited a castle.
Style: entertaining, funny, not serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: pets, animal, talking cat, cat, talking animal, dog, disorder, friendship, partner, luxury, friends, resort ...
Time: 20th century, year 2006, 21st century
Place: london, england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.4
 34K
Popeye (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Popeye is a super-strong, spinach-scarfing sailor man who's searching for his father. During a storm that wrecks his ship, Popeye washes ashore and winds up rooming at the Oyl household, where he meets Olive. Before he can win her heart, he ...
Style: humorous, absurd, semi serious, feel good, cult classic ...
Audience: kids, date night, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: sailor, abandoned baby, bully, childhood, rescue, twists and turns, kidnapping, family relations, love triangle, love and romance, eccentric family, escapades ...
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.1
 374K
Jumanji (1995)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for ...
Style: entertaining, exciting, offbeat, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, family friendly ...
Plot: jungle, fantasy world, childhood, board game, magic, time travel, adventurer, getting home, children, parallel world, supernatural, danger ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s, 19th century, 1860s ...
Place: new hampshire, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his ...
Style: funny, light, clever, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers, family outing ...
Plot: baby, inventor, inventions and discoveries, fish out of water, childhood, giant, family relations, toys, animal, redemption, runaway, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, las vegas, nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Little Rascals (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the 1920s and 1930s are brought back to life in this nostalgic children's comedy. When Alfalfa starts to question his devotion to the club's ...
Style: feel good, light, sentimental, sweet, not serious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot: childhood, children, child, bully, dog, mischievous children, rivalry, parents and children, precocious child, youth, friendship, rich kid ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Wickie the Mighty Viking (2009)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Vicky is a viking-boy who lives with his parents Halvar and Ylva in the small village Flake. He is a typical viking boy, but rather fearful. He is also not very strong but smart. One day he sails with the grown up vikings out to the sea and to ...
Style: semi serious, exciting, humorous, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: viking, parents and children, youth, danger, rescue, young heroes, competition, children, child, knight, bully, monkey ...
Time: middle ages
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Jingle All the Way (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Meet Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company is constantly busy at his job, and he also constantly disappoints his son, after he misses his son's karate exposition, his son tells Howard that he wants for Christmas is an action figure ...
Style: humorous, slapstick, christmas classics, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: christmas, father son relationship, holiday, santa claus, chase, toys, postman, shopping, superhero, christmas party, motorcycle, neighbor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2016
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her friends to help her get back home before she is caught by a dognapper who wants to ransom her.
Style: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, light, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, pets, rescue, animal life, chihuahua, friendship, lifestyle, police dog, animal, childhood, talking dog, getting home ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: beverly hills, california, mexico, usa, mexico city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams (2002)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Exploring the further adventures of Carmen and Juni Cortez, who have now joined the family spy business as Level 2 OSS agents. Their new mission is to save the world from a mad scientist living on a volcanic island populated by an imaginative ...
Style: humorous, surreal, entertaining, futuristic, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: children, espionage, child spy, mad scientist, fantasy world, heroes, rivalry, monster, spy, villain, animal, scientist ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Prince & Me 4: The Elephant Adventure (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: One year after their royal wedding, King Edvard and Queen Paige of Denmark receive an invitation to attend the wedding of Princess Myra of Sangyoon. Upon their arrival, Paige finds Myra is unhappy with her arranged marriage to the brooding and ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, light, romantic, rom com ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family outing, girls' night, date night
Plot: true love, love and romance, couple relations, family relations, couples, society, rescue, fictional country, elephant, royalty, teenager, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Garfield: The Movie (2004)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't ...
Style: feel good, not serious, entertaining, light, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot: cat, pets, talking animal, comic book, rescue, animal life, disorder, happy ending, animal shelter, comic hero, runaway, animal protagonist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Wild America (1997)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, b ears and moose.
Style: entertaining, intense, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, teens, pre-teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: childhood, wilderness, alligator, animal, betrayal, storytelling, escapades, siblings relations, parents and children, family relations, coming of age, camping ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1997, 70s, year 1967
Place: usa, colorado, arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Beethoven's 2nd (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Beethoven is back -- and this time, he has a whole brood with him now that he's met his canine match, Missy, and fathered a family. The only problem is that Missy's owner, Regina, wants to sell the puppies and tear the clan apart. ...
Style: feel good, light, light hearted, hilarious, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: dog, pets, animal, puppy, bullying, childhood, children, divorce, dysfunctional family, love, youth, animal protagonist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.2
 55K
Baby's Day Out (1994)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Baby Bink couldn't ask for more; he has adoring (if somewhat sickly-sweet) parents, he lives in a huge mansion, and he's just about to appear in the social pages of the paper. Unfortunately, not everyone in the world is as nice as Baby ...
Style: funny, light, humorous, slapstick, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot: babies and infants, mischievous children, chase, escapades, danger, stupidity, prank, young heroes, kidnapping, lost child, rescue, farce ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Larger Than Life (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. Then one day, he receives a telegram that his circus clown father has passed away, and has left a ...
Style: light, funny, touching, feel good, road movie ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, rescue, on the road, animal, goofy hero, fish out of water, inheritance, hitchhiker, elephant, philosophy, wild animal, writers ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Ernest Goes to Africa (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The title says it all. There's a mix up involving stolen diamonds which Ernest has (naturally) made into a yo-yo and given to his would be girlfriend, Rene. But Rene wants a man of action, and doesn't think that Ernest fits the bill. After ...
Style: humorous, independent film, feel good, semi serious
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: jungle, humour, satire, weirdo, rescue, kidnapping, silly humor, partner, disorder, friends, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals ...
Place: africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Tarzan and the Lost City (1998)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany, Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Tarzan returns to his homeland of Africa to save his home from destruction.
Style: exciting, fairy tale, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: tarzan, jungle, treasure hunt, archaeologist, obsessive quest, violence, magic, chase, treasure hunter, explorer, monkey, monster ...
Time: year 1998, 1910s, edwardian era
Place: africa, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.1
 16K
Mr. Magoo (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada, Brazil
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mr. Magoo, a man with terrible eyesight, gets caught up in a museum robbery.
Style: humorous, feel good, slapstick comedy, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: chase, millionaire, mistaken identity, uncle nephew relationship, race against time, goofy hero, odd couple, adventurer, woman fights a man, home invasion, female martial artist, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s
Place: brazil, rio de janeiro
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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