Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour, The

Story

The Jungle Bunch is a group of animals committed to creating peace and harmony in the jungle. Their leader is Maurice (Philippe Bozo), a penguin who looks like a tiger and was raised by his adopted tiger mother Natacha. Maurice is assisted by his ‘son’ Junior (Adrien Solis) the goldfish, and his friends Batricia the fruitbat (Dawn Ford), Batricia’s boyfriend Gilbert (Laurent Morteau) the tarsier, and Miguel the gorilla (Pascal Casanova). Also assisting are Al (Emmanuel Curtil) the red frog, and Bob (Paul Borne) the green cane toad.

Just like in The Jungle Bunch (2017), the jungle is under threat. This time by a nasty beaver named Henry (Jeremie Covillault). Henry has gained the formula for a pink foam invented by Albert, a scientific armadillo who disappeared many years ago. The foam explodes on contact with water and Henry has sprayed the foam over all the leaves of the trees. The Jungle Bunch know that when the rainy season soon starts, this dangerous substance will explode, leaving all the trees bare and destined to die.

To prevent this happening, the Jungle Bunch must locate Albert (Frederic Cerdal), who’s the only one who can make an antidote to the pink foam. Maurice and his friends decide to seek out Camelia (Leopoldine Sierre), Albert’s daughter, in the Far North, to help them find Albert. Once together, they travel the globe by air, sea, and land, over snow, mountains and deserts in search of Albert. Finally, they find him, and Camelia, Albert and the Jungle Bunch travel to France in search of the secret ingredient required to make the antidote.

But Henry has had a red bird spying on the Jungle Bunch the whole time, and he now sends his most faithful servants, Serugei (Gauthier Battoue) the capuchin monkey, and Youri (Xavier Fagnon) the vulture, to thwart the plans of our heroes and to prevent them from completing their mission.

Themes

Animals in danger; heroes and villains; good versus evil

Violence

The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour has some violence. For example:

There’s a great deal of violence between the animals, including martial art-type hitting and kicking, and the use of gun-type machines by beavers, Maurice and others.
Miguel thumps beavers over the head with his fist in Henry’s factory.
Serugei and Youri fire arrows into the Jungle Bunch’s flying machine from a gun-type machine, causing it to fall out of the sky.
A giant bear, Arnold, is pushed into shelves by Maurice and Camelia and falls from a platform onto Henry, who is pinned underneath.
There is fighting between Arnold, and Maurice and Camelia, and Camelia puts 2 feet into Arnold.
A beaver breaks Henry’s stick.
Henry is seen to hurl a substance at Camelia and her hand is blown off by pink foam.

Sexual references

The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour has some sexual references. For example:

Gilbert and Batricia kiss and cuddle.
Maurice and Camelia become romantically involved, and there is implied romantic touching at the end of the movie.

Alcohol, drugs and other substances

There’s no substance use in The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour

Nudity and sexual activity

The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour has some nudity and sexual activity. For example, a bird shows her bare bottom where her feathers are missing due to eczema.

Product placement

There’s no product placement in The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour.

Coarse language

The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour has some coarse language and name calling, including ‘dung’, ‘stink’ and ‘dummy’. Crude humour includes when a women in a French market says ‘Do I look like I want to buy flowers?’

Ideas to discuss with your children

The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour is an animated children’s adventure movie. It includes some appealing characters, but others are mean and menacing. There is also some violence, coarse language and scary scenes which might be disturbing for young children. The movie is therefore not suitable for children under 7 years, and parental guidance is recommended for children 7-8 years.

These are the main messages from The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour:

Good can conquer evil if friends work together.
Believe in yourself.

Values in The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour that you could reinforce with your children include teamwork, caring for each other, friendship, being courageous and brave, not giving up, and peace and harmony.

The Jungle Bunch 2: World Tour could also give you the chance to talk with your children about how much violence there is in the movie, and other ways the Jungle Bunch could have defeated the villains without using violence.