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George of the Jungle (1997)
A funny film based on the cartoon of the same name.
The cartoon George of the Jungle might not have been Bugs Bunny in terms of wit, but it had it's own somewhat simpler charm and was always among my favorite cartoons as a kid. This film captures the fun of that cartoon; Brendan Fraser was a great choice to play George, the rest of the cast is quite good (especially John Cleese doing the voice of the talking ape), and the special effects with the elephant was well done. If you want to see a simply fun film, you could do worse than George of the Jungle.
Dragnet (1987)
Disappointing, but had it's moments
Dragnet was one of those movies that had a good cast but was at least somewhat disappointing. I gave it a slightly more than average rating mainly because of Dan Aykroyd's spot-on tribute (of sorts) to Jack Webb who of course, was the actor who was the focal point of the TV series. Some of the dialogue for Dan's character, who if I remember correctly is supposed to be the grandson of Jack's character, is quite funny the majority of the time. It's the rest of the writing that falls quite short-and I'd love to have been at the meeting when they decided the name of Tom Hanks' role in the movie-Pep Streebeck? Tom does a good job despite the ridiculous name, but actors like Dabney Coleman are stuck in a beyond silly plot. Oh well-the music video that was put together from the movie and run on MTV back when that was watchable wasn't too bad.