Movie Substrate · Film
George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
★ 4.5 · 502 ratings on TMDB
Get Back in the Swing of Things.
George and Ursula now have a son, George Junior, so Ursula's mother arrives to try and take them back to "civilization".
DirectorDavid Grossman
The emergence reading
In George of the Jungle 2, consciousness is carried by animals — a plane of “anthropomorphic jungle”. The story fights on E8/E6/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing prejudice, family, culture, environment, identity.
↷ animalsUSprejudicefamilycultureenvironmentidentity
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
A Bug's Life (1998)E6/E9 · rare rung · prejudice
Strange World (2022)E6/E8 · rare rung · environment, family
The Bear (1988)E6/E8 · rare rung · family
Free Birds (2013)E6/E9 · rare rung · prejudice
The Land Before Time III: The Time of the Great Giving (1995)E6/E9 · rare rung · environment
Walking with Dinosaurs (2013)E6/E8 · rare rung · familySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also hides consciousness here
Other films that move a human interior onto the same kind of thing.
Madagascar (2005)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic animal world
2012: Ice Age (2011)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic ice age
Epic (2013)consciousness in animals · miniature forest realm
TMNT (2007)consciousness in animals · mutant turtle metropolis
Rio 2 (2014)consciousness in animals · amazon bird sanctuary
One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)consciousness in animals · anthropomorphic canine worldSame subject, different mask
The same preoccupations carried by a different kind of thing — grief told through the dead, an animal, a machine.
Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation (2018)consciousness in monsters · culture, family
Wreck-It Ralph (2012)consciousness in machines · culture, identity
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (2008)consciousness in monsters · culture, identity
Lilo & Stitch (2025)consciousness in aliens · family, identity
Bao (2018)consciousness in objects · culture, family
Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast (2014)consciousness carried elsewhere · culture, identity
