George of the Jungle movie review (1997)
It was a strange experience, watching “George of the Jungle.” The movie would meander along, not going anywhere, and then--pow!--there'd be an enormous laugh. More meandering, and then pow! again. Instead of spreading out the laughter and making a movie that was moderately funny from beginning to end, they concentrated the laughs and made a movie that is sort of funny some of the time and then occasionally hilarious. Consider, for example, the character of Shep, the elephant. Shep looks like an elephant and is played by an elephant (named Tai), but Shep thinks he's a dog. George ha...