Jungle Bunch World Tour, The

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Not suitable under 7; parental guidance to 8 (violence, coarse language, scary scenes)

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  • overall comments and recommendations
  • details of classification and consumer advice lines for Jungle Bunch World Tour, The
  • a review of Jungle Bunch World Tour, The completed by the Australian Council on Children and the Media (ACCM) on 29 January 2024.

Overall comments and recommendations

Children under 7 Not suitable due to violence, coarse language and scary scenes.
Children aged 7–8 Parental guidance recommended due to violence, coarse language and scary scenes.
Children aged 9 and over Ok for this age group.

About the movie

This section contains details about the movie, including its classification by the Australian Government Classification Board and the associated consumer advice lines. Other classification advice (OC) is provided where the Australian film classification is not available.

Name of movie: Jungle Bunch World Tour, The
Classification: PG
Consumer advice lines: Mild animated violence, coarse language, some scenes may scare young children
Length: 89 minutes

ACCM review

This review of the movie contains the following information:

A synopsis of the story

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

Similar to the previous movie, The Jungle Bunch (2017), the jungle is again threatened; this time, it is by a nasty beaver named Henry (Jeremie Covillault).  He has gained the formula for a pink foam (invented by Albert, a scientific armadillo who disappeared many years ago) which explodes on contact with water, and he has sprayed the foam over all the trees.  The Jungle Bunch knows that when the rainy season soon starts, this dangerous substance will destroy all leaves, leaving the trees bare and destined to die.

To prevent this occurring, the Jungle Bunch must locate Albert (Frederic Cerdal), who is the only one who can make an antidote to this pink foam.  Maurice and his friends decide to seek out Camelia (Leopoldine Sierre), Albert’s daughter, in the Far North, as she might know where Albert is now.  Once together, they all travel the globe by air, sea, and land, over snow, mountains and deserts in search of Albert.  Finally, they are successful in their quest, and so Camelia, Albert and the Jungle Bunch can travel on to France in search of the secret ingredient required to make the antidote to the pink foam.

However, assisted by a red bird who continually takes information about the Jungle Bunch’s journeys back to him, the nasty Henry now sends his most faithful servants, Serugei (Gauthier Battoue), a capuchin monkey, and Youri (Xavier Fagnon), a vulture, to thwart the plans of our heroes and to prevent them from completing their mission.

Themesinfo

Children and adolescents may react adversely at different ages to themes of crime, suicide, drug and alcohol dependence, death, serious illness, family breakdown, death or separation from a parent, animal distress or cruelty to animals, children as victims, natural disasters and racism. Occasionally reviews may also signal themes that some parents may simply wish to know about.

Animals in danger; Heroes and villains; Good versus Evil.

Use of violenceinfo

Research shows that children are at risk of learning that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution when violence is glamourised, performed by an attractive hero, successful, has few real life consequences, is set in a comic context and / or is mostly perpetrated by male characters with female victims, or by one race against another.

Repeated exposure to violent content can reinforce the message that violence is an acceptable means of conflict resolution. Repeated exposure also increases the risks that children will become desensitised to the use of violence in real life or develop an exaggerated view about the prevalence and likelihood of violence in their own world.

There is some violence in this movie, including:

  • There is 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 two 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.

Material that may scare or disturb children

Under fiveinfo

Children under five are most likely to be frightened by scary visual images, such as monsters, physical transformations.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children under the age of five, including the following:

  • Guard dogs growl menacingly and bare their teeth.
  • Pink foam explodes with loud noises.
  • Henry is a scary character with long teeth, a mean grin and a sinister laugh.
  • A giant bear is aggressive and scary.
  • A huge robotic panda has nasty glowing red eyes.
  • Camelia has an artificial claw for her hand.
  • There is a lot of loud and dramatic music.

Aged five to eightinfo

Children aged five to eight will also be frightened by scary visual images and will also be disturbed by depictions of the death of a parent, a child abandoned or separated from parents, children or animals being hurt or threatened and / or natural disasters.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes and scary visual images, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged five to eight, including the following:

  • Beavers work robotically as slave-labour in the factory of the nasty beaver Henry.
  • The Jungle Bunch go to the centre of the earth and becomes trapped inside.
  • A huge robotic panda has part of its head and face taken off.
  • Animals are in danger.

Aged eight to thirteeninfo

Children aged eight to thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic threats and dangers, violence or threat of violence and / or stories in which children are hurt or threatened.

In addition to the above-mentioned violent scenes, there are some scenes in this movie that could scare or disturb children aged eight to thirteen, including the following:

  • Some younger children in this age group could be scared by the above-mentioned scenes.

Thirteen and overinfo

Children over the age of thirteen are most likely to be frightened by realistic physical harm or threats, molestation or sexual assault and / or threats from aliens or the occult.

  • Nothing further noted.

Product placement

  • None noted.

Sexual references

There are some sexual references in this movie, including:

  • Gilbert and Batricia are shown to be kissing and cuddling.
  • Maurice and Camelia become romantically involved, and there is implied romantic touching at the end of the movie.

Nudity and sexual activity

There is some nudity and sexual activity in this movie, including:

  • A bird shows her bare bottom where her feathers are missing due to eczema.

Use of substances

  • None noted.

Coarse language

There is some coarse language in this movie, including:

  • “Dung”
  • “Stink”
  • Name calling – Sloth says “What a dummy” to Roger Koala
  • Crude humour - Woman in French market says, “Do I look like I want to buy flowers?”

In a nutshell

The Jungle Bunch World Tour is an animated children's adventure movie. Whilst there are some appealing characters in the movie, some other characters are mean and menacing. There is also some violence, coarse language and scary scenes which could be disturbing to young children. As such, the movie is not suitable for children under seven and parental guidance is recommended for children seven to eight years old. 

The main message from this movie is that good can conquer evil if friends work together and believe in themselves.

Values in this movie that parents may wish to reinforce with their children include:

  • Teamwork
  • Caring for each other
  • Friendship
  • Being courageous and brave
  • Not giving up
  • Peace and harmony.

This movie could give parents the opportunity to address the excessive use of violence within this movie, and to discuss alternative ways to defeat villains without recourse to such violence.