With his plan derailed, Ted sadly addresses the crowd outside (who were waiting to see the idol) that the museum will permanently close and that there is no idol. The projector subsequently breaks, and Ted believes George broke it. Upon hearing this, Junior (who believes Ted is getting all the love over him) pours some of his coffee on the projector and gives the rest to George. Bloomsberry, who sees it as the only way to save the museum and tells Ted that he is proud of him. Ted borrows Clovis' truck to take the projector to the museum to show Mr. George floats away on helium balloons that are popped by bird control spikes, but he is saved by Ted.Īt the home of Clovis, an inventor, George discovers that an overhead projector makes the idol appear 40 feet tall. The next morning, Ted follows the monkey into the zoo, where Maggie and her students name the monkey George after a nearby statue of George Washington. After a failed call to the animal control service to try to get rid of the monkey, Ted and the monkey are forced to sleep outside in a park. Bloomsberry and is kicked out by Junior after the monkey accidentally destroys an Apatosaurus skeleton. At the museum, Ted reveals the idol's actual size to Mr. Due to the building's strict no-pet policy, Ted is evicted by Ivan, the doorman. In Ted's apartment building, the monkey makes his way to the penthouse and vandalizes the walls of Ted's neighbor, Miss Plushbottom, with paint. Ted returns home and finds advertisements for the shrine all over the city. Not wanting to be left alone, the monkey follows him and boards the cargo ship. Ted encounters a happy and mischievous orphaned monkey living in the jungle and gives him his yellow hat. Bloomsberry to believe that the idol is even larger than he thought. He sends a photograph of it to the museum, but the photograph's angle leads Mr. In the African jungle, Ted finds the idol with the help of his guide, Edu, but it is only three inches tall. He is outfitted with a bright yellow suit and hat and boards a cargo ship to Africa. Ted impulsively volunteers to travel to Africa to bring back an ancient 40-foot tall idol, the Lost Shrine of Zagawa, hoping that it will attract visitors. Bloomsberry's son Junior wants to tear down the museum and replace it with a commercial parking lot. Bloomsberry, informs Ted that the museum is losing money and will have to close. Ted is a museum tour guide who gives weekly presentations to schoolteacher Maggie Dunlop and her students. A second theatrical Curious George film is in development, with Andrew Adamson set to direct. It received five sequels, although all but one of them were released as direct-to-video films. Despite its mild success in the box office, Curious George made $48 million in DVD sales in the home market. It was met with generally positive reviews and grossed $70 million worldwide against a budget of $50 million. The soundtrack was composed by Heitor Pereira and features several songs by musician Jack Johnson.Ĭurious George was released in the United States by Universal Pictures on February 10, 2006. The film employs a notable blend of traditional animation and CGI scenery and objects that make up 20% of its environment. The film had languished in development hell at Imagine Entertainment since at least 1992, but it is possible that it was conceived years before. It is the first theatrically-released animated film from Universal Pictures since 1995's Balto, the first theatrical animated film from Universal Animation Studios (making this Universal's first in-house theatrical animated film), and the first animated film from Imagine Entertainment. Featuring the voices of Will Ferrell, Drew Barrymore, David Cross, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, and Dick Van Dyke, it tells the story of how the Man with the Yellow Hat, a tour guide at a museum, first befriended a curious monkey named George and started going on adventures with him around the city. It was directed by Matthew O'Callaghan, written by Ken Kaufman and produced by Ron Howard, David Kirschner, and Jon Shapiro. Curious George is a 2006 animated adventure film based on the book series written by H.
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