JUNGLE 2 JUNGLE
A film review by Tim Voon
Copyright 1997 Tim Voon
Cast: Tim Allen, Sam Huntington, JoBeth Williams, Lolita Davidovich, Martin Short, David Ogden Stiers, Bob Dishy Director: John Screenplay: Bruce Evans and Raynold Gideon
How deep can the relationship between a father and son truly be? When one is repeatedly called 'Baboon' and the other is named 'Mimu-Siku', which literally means cat piss!
The answer is not very.
The level of this new Tim Allen comedy is as superficial as its idiotic name calling. The humour is based on jokes involving blow guns used to kill flies, moronic Russian Mafia, anaesthetised cats, and the dietary habits of 'Mimu-Siku'; who shoots pigeons, eats tropical fish, and cat food when denied the cat.
By far the most interesting character is the hairy, pet tarantula who uses its radio sonic abilities to hunt its prey. What Tim Allen, and every other character needs is a good bite from this spider, both to wake them up and prevent the audience from lapsing into a undeserved coma.
Adults - yawn. The kids liked it though.
Timothy Voon e-mail: stirling@netlink.com.au
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