Metascore
53 out of 100

Mixed or average reviews - based on 18 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 18
  2. Negative: 3 out of 18
  1. 75
    A movie that is sort of funny some of the time and then occasionally hilarious.
  2. One of the most witty, entertaining family films to come out in some time.
  3. Hits you on the head until you laugh.
  4. The kind of silly summer fun that gives family entertainment a good name.
  5. Reviewed by: Leonard Klady
    70
    Not quite inspired lunacy, the film has a game, likable quality.
  6. 70
    Brendan Fraser breathes loopy new life into the swinging '60s TV cartoon icon.
  7. 63
    Possesses both an edge and a sense of self-mocking that's unusual for any feature, live or animated.
  8. 60
    This bit of fluff overflows with so much honest charm it barely matters that it's one in a seemingly endless succession of Tarzan retreads.
  9. The plot is predictable, and the humor is uncreative and often crude. The heroine, however, is endearing in her quirkiness.
  10. 50
    So silly, so garishly over-the-top, and so bracingly eager to please, that it's hard not to fall under its gleefully gooney spell.
  11. Sporadically playful, it ends up wearing as thin as any film geared to a preteen sense of humor is bound to do.
  12. An amiable, highly ingratiating piece of lowbrow entertainment.
  13. 40
    John Cleese supplies the voice of George's brainy and terrifically tolerant sidekick, a very unconvincing animatronic gorilla named Ape, but even he can't raise the level of humor above the harmlessly goofy.
  14. Reviewed by: Mike Clark
    38
    This one's aimed at those airheads who, like George, have been swinging on a grapevine and slamming into too many trees. [16 July 1997, p. 3D]
  15. They are singing the jingle in the bath, in bed, in the car, ready to send you, like George, smack into a tree.
  16. Reviewed by: Stephen Thompson
    30
    This appalling desecration of Jay Ward's 1960s cartoon series suffers from countless movie-ruining flaws.
User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 15 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. R.Dalvi
    10
    Entertaining as well as excellent.
  2. JustinK
    9
    This movie is so conscious of the fact that it's supposed to be a bad movie that, through hilarious fourth-wall references et al., it becomes a great movie. Charming, hilarious, and most importantly, fun! Full Review »
  3. JayCubS.
    10
    This is absolutely my favorite movie. It's stayed in my heart since my childhood, for it is a perfect children's movie....for children. And me. Full Review »