Though half the cast has changed from the first George of the
Jungle, the silliness and self-referential jokes remain--for
example, in an unusual display of professional honesty, Christopher
Showerman explains to the audience that he's the new George because the
producers were too cheap to re-hire Brendan Fraser. While a mean lion
(voiced by Michael Clarke Duncan, The Green Mile) connives to
take over running the jungle world, George's wife Ursula (Julie Benz) is
imperiled when her mother and her former fiancé (Thomas Haden Church,
returning from the first movie) scheme to bring her back to civilization
through kidnapping and hypnosis. Though George of the Jungle 2
aims its combination of goofy humor and computer-generated animals at
kids, the camera spends a lot of time ogling Showerman's buffed body.
--Bret Fetzer
