Heartwarming / George of the Jungle

• Admit it, you fans of the old cartoon; when you first saw this movie, the first time that theme kicked in, you were smiling and tapping your feet, right?
• The scene where George and Ursula console a capuchin monkey who isn't being accepted by the other monkeys, and works out a plan to get the monkeys to like him by getting a lion to show up and having the little monkey 'scare' him off by beating his chest and telling a Tarzan yell. Especially when the lion winks at George from the bushes later.
• From the first movie, the scene in which George and Ursula are dancing around the fire to "Dela". Especially when you factor that Ursula was reluctant to do so based off of Western social anxieties until George points out that he's the only person around and he wants to see her dance. You can tell the two actors had fun doing this scene.
  • There's several more moments preceding this. We start with George explaining how he got his juju (good luck charm) from a crocodile who had a toothache. Then Ursula giving him a plastic ring she found in a cereal box, which George calls "nicest present George ever get".
  • Later, right before George runs off to save Ape, he leaves his juju next to her while she's asleep.
• George explaining why he never feels embarrassed for being silly:
  George: George never feel stupid. Sometimes George swing into tree. And sometimes- (falls out of his treehouse) Sometimes George fall out of treehouse. But not feel stupid. Something good always happens after. George just lucky, I guess.
• As Ursula and her mother argue over her feelings for George, there's a brief shot of her father who silently realizes that Ursula truly loves George a second before she realizes it for herself.
  Mr. Stanhope: Be careful out there, honey.
  • Mr. Stanhope in general. He never once tried to force his daughter into marrying Lyle. He tries to get his wife to calm down when Ursula insists that she’s not interested in Lyle anymore, but Beatrice is too stubborn to listen to him. Not to mention that he never tries to scare away George and seems fine with him during the party.
• Early on in the film, Ape tries to explain to George that they’re not really brothers in the biological sense and briefly starts speaking of the evolutionary connection between their species. The mention of “family” (in the Linnaean classification sense), however, is all George needs to confirm that they are brothers, and in the end, Ape can’t seem to argue. Truly, family transcends not just blood, but species.

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