History Film / JungleCruise

* CoolPet: Frank shares his riverboat with a tame jaguar named Proxima. She's smart enough to help him fake fights, so there's some overlap with NonHumanSidekick as well.

* LetsGetDangerous: [=MacGregor=] is presented as an UpperClassTwit who is shown to hate the jungle, behaves quite effeminately [[spoiler: (he's quite possibly gay)]] and brings an absurd amount of luggage on a trip up the Amazon River. [[spoiler: He's also a Queensberry Rules boxer, and proves himself to be a very competent fighter when he completely ''levels'' the German submariners during the finale. He's even the one who takes out Princh Joachim, albeit partially by accident.]]

* 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|2017}}'', Officer Spector in ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'', Larma D’Acy and Wrobie Tyce in ''Film/{{The Rise Of Skywalker}}'' and that one guy Joe Russo played in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'')[[/note]] [=MacGregor=] merely says his "interests lie elsewhere" when discussing his past refusal to marry. (Just to cement that it's this trope, he talks of being ostracized because of "who I love," but has no love interest whatsoever in the film.) 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.

** At least one of the German soldiers uses an American shotgun despite being a member of the Imperial German Navy (and Imperial Germany's contentious relationship with shotguns on the battlefield, which [[ArtitocLicenceLaw they insisted was a war crime]]).

** At least one of the German soldiers uses an American shotgun despite being a member of the Imperial German Navy.

* CriticalResearchFailure: Frank had one InUniverse while setting up props for his cruise. One of the fake menaces for tourists is a hippopotamus, but (as one girl points out) there are no hippos in the Amazon.

* NiceHat:
** Frank's skipper's cap rarely leaves his head.
** Trader Sam demands [=McGregor's=] top hat as the price for her translating assistance.
** Lily acquires a new one as well from an opponent during the heroes' escape from town.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [=MacGregor=] is presented as an UpperClassTwit who is shown to hate the jungle, behaves quite effeminately [[spoiler: (he's quite possibly gay)]] and brings an absurd amount of luggage on a trip up the Amazon River. [[spoiler: He's also a Queensberry Rules boxer, and proves himself to be a very competent fighter when he completely ''levels'' the German submariners during the finale. He's even the one who takes out Princh Joachim, albeit partially by accident.]]

* RagnarokProofing: {{Justified|Trope}}. 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.

* NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent: No explanation is ever given for [[spoiler:Frank's clear American accent, even though he's living in Brazil and is a 400-year-old Spainard.]]

* MisplacedWildlife: InUniverse. Frank's Jungle Cruise tour includes props of Hippos that he makes move around with loaded weights strategically cut to stimulate the cruise with safe but exiting thrills for the passengers. One little girl tries to point out that hippos aren't native to the Amazon before Frank shushes her.

* HumanoidAbomination: The conquistadors, [[spoiler: sans Frank]], due to a side effect of their curse; when they're freed after having been petrified for centuries, erosion had done a serious number on their bodies and they have to take elements from the surrounding area to fill in the missing parts. Aguirre himself is mostly snakes, and his men are made of beehives, mud, and tree branches respectively.

* 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 Germany became a republic and his marriage had fallen apart.]]

** To be fair, however, the trope is also downplayed: Joachim is a villain mostly because he opposes the heroes, and while his goal is not admirable in the slightest using a magical remedy to win the war and extend his own life keeping the monopoly of it are pretty understandable goals for a member of a royal family. His villanous actions are done in pursuit of that goal rather than out of malice, and is also one of the two only men never shown to be dismissive of Lily because of her gender.

* 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|2017}}'', Officer Spector in ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'', Larma D’Acy and Wrobie Tyce in ''Film/{{The Rise Of Skywalker}}'' and that one guy Joe Russo played in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'')[[/note]] [=MacGregor=] 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.

Set during the early 20th century, a riverboat captain named Frank Wolff (Creator/DwayneJohnson) takes Lily Houghton (Creator/EmilyBlunt), an English 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, a competing German expedition and a rather unexpected [[UsefulNotes/LopeDeAguirre enemy]].

* AccidentalMurder: [=McGregor=] punches [[spoiler:Joachim]] into a wall, who then happens to be crushed by a piece of stone that falls from above. [=McGregor=] immediately lampshades that he didn't mean for that to happen.

* AgonyOfTheFeet: Shortly after getting the arrowhead from the society, Lily and [=McGregor=] recount an [[NoodleIncident incident]] where he apparently lost two toes from an expedition to Bhutan when he was 7 when [=McGregor=] is arguing against joining her on her planned Amazon trip. Later, he hurts the other foot when escaping from Aguirre and his men.

* 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), and the fact he never mentions an actual love interest and the specification that he could not accept ''any'' offer (which could be loyalty to another woman he has fallen for, but is more likely to mean that the issue is in the gender) pushes the audience's suspicions pretty far in the other direction.

** [=McGregor=] sums up Lily's excursion at the Society.
--->'''[=McGregor=]''': Breaking and entering, larceny and, worst of all, having to take public transport.
** At the end, when [=McGregor=] is [[spoiler: telling the Society about the adventure, they seem to take in all the crazy exploits, the battles with evil Germans and the undead monstrous conquistadors...but it's when he mentions a ''woman'' being chief of a native tribe that the Society members act in outraged disbelief, as if they're unaware of the female monarchs their own country has had in the past—including Queen Victoria, whose reign had only ended with her death in 1901, ''well within living memory of the setting'']].

* BeastlyBloodsports: In the bar where Lily and [=McGregor=] meet Frank, some fights between [[SpidersAreScary spiders]] and [[ScaryScorpions scorpions]] are organized.

* BookEnds: The film begins with [=McGregor=] giving a speech to the Society, stuttering and using cue cards from Lily while going along as a distraction to ask for their approval. The movie ends with him giving his own speech and fully confident after his CharacterDevelopment, soundly and rightfully rejecting their request for Lily to join on her own behalf.

* 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|2017}}'', Officer Spector in ''WesternAnimation/{{Onward}}'', Larma D’Acy and Wrobie Tyce in ''Film/{{The Rise Of Skywalker}}'' and that one guy Joe Russo played in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'')[[/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.

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: [=McGregor=] is presented as an UpperClassTwit who is shown to hate the jungle, behaves quite effeminately [[spoiler: (he's quite possibly gay)]] and brings an absurd amount of luggage on a trip up the Amazon River. [[spoiler: He's also a Queensberry Rules boxer, and proves himself to be a very competent fighter when he completely ''levels'' the German submariners during the finale. He's even the one who takes out Princh Joachim, albeit partially by accident.]]

** During a conversation with [=McGregor=] Frank reveals that he speaks Latin [[spoiler: which was the dominant lingua franca of European scholars prior to the 18th century. As a cartographer Frank would likely have been versed in this language as part of his education.]]

** When talking about the local legend that some types of fish in the river as shapeshifter spirits who will curse them with bad nightmares for life if they look them in the eye, Frank warns Lily and [=McGregor=] that 'If you believe in legends, you should believe in curses too.' Whilst it seems to be foreshadowing the fact that the conquistador's curse is RealAfterAll, [[spoiler: it's actually foreshadowing that Frank himself has first-hand experience with the curse, being a member of the conquistador's party 400 years ago.]]

* 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. It is also a sign of character development.

* JerkassHasAPoint: Joachim doesn't have any noble purpose regarding the flower, but he is right in pointing out that Lily owes nothing to the association that wouldn't accept him because of her gender (noticeably, he is the ''only'' man beside MacGregor to never disregard her because of it, in his first appearance seeming genuinely impressed by her pointing out that the association mislabeled an artifact). [[spoiler: Lily does end up chosing to reject the association in the end because of their mistreatment.]]

* MasculineGirlFeminineBoy: The adventure-seeking Lily who prefers wearing pants to the AmbiguouslyGay [=McGregor=] who tries to dress sharp and be clean, no matter how impractical.

* PocketProtector: {{Subverted}}, but the spirit of the trope is there. Towards the climax of the movie, Lily grabs a gun and fakes turning on Frank in order to take Joachim's offer of 'a single petal' from the tree, shooting him so he falls into the water and can then ambush the remaining Germans back on his cruise boat holding [=McGregor=] hostage. [[spoiler: Frank actually doesn't have any such protective items to block the bullets, but since he's [[ImmortalHero Immortal]], it enables him to convincingly 'fake' getting shot more realistically]]. The only thing that nearly gives away the ruse is Frank getting equally taken off-guard by Lily's UnspokenPlanGuarantee and needing a second bullet to get the hint.
* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: Zigzagged. [=McGregor=] was realistically shunned by most of his family and associates for being gay in the 1910s. When he explains this to Frank, who [[spoiler:is a Spaniard that grew up in the 1500s during the country's conservative Catholic environment]], Frank is surprisingly open-minded about his sexuality and doesn't judge him. [[spoiler:Given Frank's been stuck on the river for 400 years and has likely met plenty of people from all types of cultures and customs, he's had plenty of time to accept such things.]]

* ReadingTheStageDirectionsOutLoud: When [=McGregor=] reads Lily's prepared statement at the beginning, he says, "Pause for dramatic effect" in front of everybody.
* ReducedToRatburgers: Subverted when Frank shoots a rodent out of a tree and [=McGregor=] asks if he expects him to eat that. Instead he uses it as piranha bait.

* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Frank is a gun-toting, rough-and-tumble boat captain [[spoiler: and former Spanish ''conquistador'']]. [=McGregor=] Haughton is a foppish pretty boy, [[spoiler: albeit a surprisingly competent Queensberry Rules boxer]].
* SharpDressedMan: [=McGregor=] ''insists'' on being one, impracticality be damned. Both Frank and Lily point out multiple ways that this is a bad idea. He does not remain one for long.
* ShotInTheAss: [=McGregor=] gets it with a tranquilizer dart.

* SomethingThatBeginsWithBoring: [=McGregor=] attempts to play "I Spy" with Trader Sam in the canoe before being ambushed.

* 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.

* UndyingLoyalty: Despite him loathing his sister's adventurous nature and the scrapes it drags him into, [=McGregor=] states he would still follow Lily into a volcano if he had to, [[spoiler: because she's the only member of his family who didn't disown him when it was revealed he was gay (or so he implies.)]]

* VomitChainReaction: After the rapids, Frank teases Lily about looking seasick and offers some food, prompting her to vomit. This in turn causes [=McGregor=] to vomit to Frank's amusement... until he nearly vomits himself.

* UnusualPetsForUnusualPeople: Frank has a pet jaguar, showing his deep understanding of the Amazon and the creatures living there.[[spoiler: He's also had an ocelot and a cougar over the years.]]

* LamePunReaction: Frank's many puns are often met with groans.

** During the final fight at La Luna Rota, after MacGregor knocks some German soldiers into the water, they are not seen again.

* SuperDrowningSkills: Lily doesn't know how to swim.

* Frank's many puns are often met with groans.

Set during the early 20th century, a riverboat captain named Frank Wolff (Creator/DwayneJohnson) takes Lily Houghton (Creator/EmilyBlunt), an English 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.

* BigBadDuumvirate: Prince Joachim and [[spoiler: Lope de Aguirre]] are the main villains of the movie.

** [[spoiler: Lope de Aguirre, the 16th Century Spanish conquistador, who's been trapped in the Amazon jungle since his supposed death. His comrades (Melchor, Sancho, and Gonzalo) are all names of historical figures relevant to Aguierre's conquest of Peru.]]

* HistoricalDomainCharacter: Both villains:

** [[spoiler: Lope de Aguirre, the 16th Century Spanish conquistador, who's been trapped in the Amazon jungle since his supposed death.]]

*** During the fight Proxima bites Frank's arm, later prompting him to remark that she did it "way too hard". Such a bite would have, at the very least, left Frank with a noticeably bleeding wound. One may wave it off as being part of the ruse, but it's actually [[spoiler: a subtle hint at him being unable to bleed due to his curse]].

*** During the fight Proxima bites Frank's arm, later prompting him to remark that she did it "way too hard". Such a bite would have, at the very least, left Frank with a noticeably bleeding wound. One may wave it off as being part of the ruse, but it's actually [[Spoiler: a subtle hint at him being unable to bleed due to his curse]].