History Film / JungleCruise

* NiceHat: Frank's skipper's cap rarely leaves his head.

* TheAmazon: The setting of the majority of the film. [[spoiler:Frank and his fellow Spaniards can't even leave it without dire consequences.]]

* ButNotTooGay: Billed as yet Disney's most recent "first openly gay character"[[note]](after Artie in ''Film/{{Cruella}}'', LeFou in ''Film/{{Beauty and the Beast}}'', Officer Spector in ''Film/{{Onward}}'', Larma D’Acy and Wrobie Tyce in ''Film/{{The Rise Of Skywalker}}'' and that one guy Joe Russo played in ''Film/{{Endgame}}'')[[/note]] [=McGregor=] merely says his "interests lie elsewhere" when discussing his past refusal to marry. Justified in that the timeframe is [=WW1=] and England was known to arrest gay people for 'crime of indecency' so he at least has an excuse of not wanting to discuss it out-loud.

* TragicVillain: [[spoiler: Aguirre is revealed to be this by his close friend, Francisco or otherwise Frank cursed with immortality who was actually his childhood friend and close comrade in the Conquistadors. Aguirre sought for the tears of the moon to cure his beloved daughter when she had paralysis in her body to the point that many of his comrades died during the search and after being nursed back to life by the Puka Michuna tribe, he was actually kind and gentle with the tribe's children but worse of all, his impatience with his daughter's life on the line caused him and the inquisitor to turned against the tribe except Francisco and after he fatally stabs the tribe's leader. The leader cursed them with lifelong immortality to roam the rivers forever.]]

* TribalFacePaint: When [=McGregor=] some of the locals, one offers what [=McGregor=] assumes to be red face paint. Only after does he learn it's permanent tattoo ink.

* TribalFacePaint: When [=McGregor=] befriends some of the locals, one offers what [=McGregor=] assumes to be red face paint. Only after does he learn it's permanent tattoo ink.

* AmbiguouslyGay: [=McGregor=] is rather heavily implied to be gay, but not explicitly said to be so. He admits to Frank that he has rejected three attempts by his family to marry him off to highborn young ladies because his affections lie "elsewhere," and his sister Lily is the only relative who doesn't regard him with disgust. Given the social conventions of upper-class Edwardian English society, it's ''possible'' that he's talking about being in love with a working-class ''woman'', but his evasive description (and the fact that he's an able-bodied military-age male who's ''not'' in the army at the height of WWI) pushes the audience's suspicions pretty far in the other direction.
** It's worth noting that this is accurate for the time period the movie is set in.

*** In said staged fight, when Frank wrestles with the jaguar on the ground, he sees a scorpion skittering towards the cat and immediately throws her to the other side (and when he sees a spider on that side, he tosses her up and onto a table), showing that he's clearly manipulating the fight to keep Proxima away from anything that might ''actually'' hurt her.

* IAteWhat: Subverted. When [=McGregor=] drinks what he thinks is beer at the native tribe, Frank points out it's actually fermented spit. Though initially disgusted, [=McGregor=] continues to drink it anyways.

Set during the early 20th century, a riverboat captain named Frank Wolff (Wrestling/DwayneJohnson) takes Lily Houghton (Creator/EmilyBlunt), a scientist, and her brother [=McGregor=] (Creator/JackWhitehall) on a mission into a jungle to find the Tree of Life, which is believed to possess healing powers. All the while, the trio must fight against dangerous wild animals and a competing German expedition.

* MisplacedRetribution: [[spoiler: The native chief cursed all five conquistadors for the slaughter of his tribe, including Francisco, who didn't participate in the massacre and actually helped his daughter escape with the arrowhead his 'allies' were trying to retrieve, thus forever including him in Aguirre's eternal punishment despite not having done anything to deserve it himself. It's {{Justified}} though, as it's implied the chief's curse was vaguely-worded enough to count all the conquistadors as a group together, and the majority of them were guilty of shedding innocent blood, so the chief's DyingCurse wasn't able to exclude Francisco, not to mention the fact that the chief wasn't able to see Francisco turning on his comrades to protect his daughter. In addition, it also technically saved Francisco's life, as he was mortally wounded by Aguirre and almost died before the curse affected him.]]

* RagnarokProofing: {{Justified}}. The cursed Conquistadors use archaic weapons like a Musket, Crossbow, hatchet and swords that are still in working order and sharp as they're ever been--in the case of the Crossbow and Musket they're still able to fire despite their wielders being made of Mud and Beeswax without the substances interfering with the firing mechanisms in any way--alongside armour that's still in usable condition, but it's made clear that this is because the items in question have become fused to their bodies through the centuries, and are thus included in the curse that preserves their existence. At once point, Aguirre chucks a knife at lily that then turns into a snake, showing that they're basically forming the weapons from the surrounding environment to attack their targets with, when they're not using the parts of the environment they're made of to attack instead.

* EvilMakesYouMonstrous: Unlike the similar curse in ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'', the Conquistadores' curse doesn't specifically do anything to their appearance, [[spoiler: as demonstrated by Frank/Fransisco, their TokenGoodTeammate who looks totally normal]]. Their current BodyHorror is the indirect result of continuing to be evil after being cursed. [[spoiler: Fransisco had to trap them in a cave away from the Amazon to stop them pursuing him. Since they were suddenly away from the river, the jungle tried to pull them back, but it couldn't get them through the surrounding stone, and instead merged them with the surroundings. Even after they're re-animated by Joachim bringing the river to them, their original bodies have suffered so badly from erosion that they were replaced with things like bees, mud, and snakes. Had they not gone after Fransisco, they'd look much the same as they always had.]]

* GuiltByAssociationGag: A dramatic example. [[spoiler:Fransico, who would eventually be known as Frank, was included in the curse on the conquistadors despite turning on them in order to protect the native village.]]

** Prince Joachim Franz Humbert of Prussia, youngest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II.[[note]]The real Prince Joachim, apparently unhappy about no longer being a prince after his father was deposed, killed himself in 1920. He also reportedly did not speak English.[[/note]]

** Prince Joachim Franz Humbert of Prussia, youngest son of Kaiser Wilhelm II.[[note]]The real Prince Joachim, apparently unhappy about no longer being a prince after his father was deposed, killed himself in 1920.[[/note]]

* FateWorseThanDeath: The conquistadors were cursed with immortality at the cost that they would always be drawn back to the river if they tried to go out of visual range of it. Later, [[spoiler:Francisco (Frank) managed to trap them in a pit so that they would be kept away from the river for centuries, their bodies collapsing and being 'replaced' by things ranging from bees to snakes until the German forces detonated explosives to send the river into the pit]].

* MotiveDecay: [[spoiler:Frank reveals Aguirre's quest to find the Tears of the Moon was initially to find a cure for his terminally ill daughter, before he succumbed to anger and slaughtered the natives upon being rejected by the chief on the cusp of achieving his heart's desire. His anger at Francisco/Frank protecting the natives and allowing the chief's daughter to flee with the arrowhead they needed to find the tree lead to him spending their immortal lives hunting Frank down and killing him again and again, despite [[SealedEvilInADuel both of them being immortal and thus the outcome pointless regardless]], and his daughter having long succumbed to either her disease or ageing over the years. By the present day, he merely wants to break the curse that binds him to the river and give Frank further punishment for the FateWorseThanDeath he gave them]].

The film also stars Creator/EdgarRamirez, Creator/JessePlemons and Creator/PaulGiamatti. It was released on July 30, 2021, simultaneously in theaters and on Creator/DisneyPlus with Premier Access. The film will become available to all Disney+ subscribers on November 12, 2021. In August 2021, it was announced a sequel, again featuring Johnson and Blunt, had been greenlit.

* ButNotTooGay: Billed as yet Disney's most recent "first openly gay character"[[note]](after Artie in ''Film/{{Cruella}}'')[[/note]] [=McGregor=] merely says his "interests lie elsewhere" when discussing his past refusal to marry. Justified in that the timeframe is [=WW1=] and England was known to arrest gay people for 'crime of indecency' so he at least has an excuse of not wanting to discuss it out-loud.

* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: Prince Joachim of Prussia was a real person; he did serve in the German army during the First World War but doesn't seem to have been particularly villainous. Indeed Irish rebels against the British during the Easter Rising in 1916 even considered offering him the throne of an independent Ireland in the event of a German victory. [[spoiler: Overlaps with DeathByAdaptation as the real Joachim survived the war only to take his own life in 1920 after his family had been overthrown and his marriage had fallen apart.]]

* WhyDoesItHaveToBeSnakes: Lily is afraid of swimming, which is a bit problematic when her latest adventure takes her up the Amazon river.

** Frank looks surprised when Lily shows the map...which makes sense as [[spoiler: he drew it and amazed a copy got to England]].