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20 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 70Los Angeles TimesKevin ThomasLos Angeles TimesKevin ThomasBeautifully designed and well-crafted, Jungle 2 Jungle is arguably the equal of the French original and perhaps even better, thanks to Tim Allen.
- 63Chicago ReaderLisa AlspectorChicago ReaderLisa AlspectorThe 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.
- 50VarietyLeonard KladyVarietyLeonard KladyAn 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.
- 50The New York TimesJanet MaslinThe New York TimesJanet MaslinJungle 2 Jungle' still finds time to appreciate Mr. Allen's easy way with a child actor, an audience or a heavily tranquilized pet cat.
- 50TV Guide MagazineTV Guide MagazineThis 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.
- The funny moments come and go quickly and the bland ones drag on too long.
- 40EmpireCaroline WestbrookEmpireCaroline WestbrookIt 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.
- 37Washington PostRita KempleyWashington PostRita KempleyDisney 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.)
- 25Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe only reason I am rating this movie at one star while Little Indian, Big City received zero stars is that Jungle 2 Jungle is too mediocre to deserve zero stars. It doesn't achieve truly awful badness, but is sort of a black hole for the attention span, sending us spiraling down into nothingness.
- 25San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleSan Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleMildly caustic, sentimental and slow.