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my father was a mercenary and he was recruited she was all he had he vowed he wouldn't lose [Music] her you were a Gear's cartographer One By One The Jungle took us we were all the dead Moon the pedals magic was real its powers unlocked but he grew [Music] impatient despite all the kindness they' shown us [Music] standby leave sight of the river again or the jungle will take us back to it h me for betraying him he found me over the years and we fought where the jungle couldn't take them back to the [Music] river and for [Music] 300 I'm sorry old friend he w [Music] [Applause] [Music] most infuriating man I've ever met [Music] Frank you didn't go down the first time you should have just gone [Music] down e e e e jungle cruise is a American fantasy Adventure film directed by Jo kitera from a screenplay written by Glenn ficara John rayer and Michael Green it is based on Walt Disney's aonomus theme park attraction produced by Walt Disney Pictures the film stars Dwayne Johnson Emily Blunt Edgar Ramirez Jack White Hall Jesse plens and Paul Giamatti it tells the alternate history of the captain of a small Riverboat who takes a scientist and her brother through a jungle in search of the Tree of Life while competing against a German expon and cursed conquistadors plans for a feature film based on the Jungle Cruise ride began in the project lay dormant until the original version fell through and Johnson joined in blunt and the rest of the cast joined in in a revamped version with filming taking place in Hawaii and Georgia from May through September that year the school was composed by James Newton Howard following a year of post- production and a year of further delay due to the covid pandemic Jungle Cruise was finally released in the United States on July e simultaneously in theaters and digitally via Disney plus Premier access the film received mixed to positive reviews and grossed D million worldwide against the produ uction budget of million it also made million on over its first days on Premier access a sequel is in development with Johnson and blunt set to reprise their roles plot in E Donna giri leads Spanish conquistadors to South America to search for the lagras de Crystal tree whose flowers cure illness heal injuries lift curses and may save his infirmed daughter after many conquistadors die the puka Muna tribe heals the survivors with the trees's flowers the tribal Chief refuses to reveal the tree's location so agar stabs him and burns the village the dying Chief curses The Conquistadors making them Immortal and unable to leave sight of the Amazon River without being dragged back by the jungle itself in London McGregor hton presents his sister Dr Lily Horton's tears of the Moon research to the Royal Society which bars women members the Halton hope to revolutionize both medicine and Aid the British war effort they request access to a recently acquired Arrowhead artifact that Lily believes can locate the tears of the Moon tree but are denied Lily steals the artifact narrowly evading prince joim who is equally intent on finding the tree for himself and Germany after arriving in Brazil Lily and McGregor hire Skipper Frank Wolf to guide them down the Amazon Frank who offers jungle cruises embellished with faked dangers initially declines citing the dangerous river and jungle but reconsiders upon seeing the arrowhead the trio departs after escaping join submarine Lily discovers Frank's tears of the Moon research but he insists he stopped searching long ago they are captured by cannibals that are actually the puka Muna tribe who work for Frank as part of his contrived jungle crew Adventure Ang gooded Lily distrusts Frank and sets off to find the tree herself tribal Chief Trader Sam translates the symbols on the arrowhead revealing the tree's location and that it only blooms under a Blood Moon meanwhile Joachim locates The Conquistadors petrified inside a cave and partially revives them with Amazon water AER agrees to bring Joachim the arrowhead in exchange for lifting the curse when he finds the flowers Jim diverts river water to flood the cave which reanimates aera and his conquistadors and infuses them with rainforest elements the Conquistadors attack the tribe and Aira stabs Frank through the heart Lily flees with the artifact chased by Conquest doors but the jungle vines pull them back to the river preventing her capture to the halton's amazement and Alive Frank soon reappears he reveals he is also a cursed Conquistador he helped search for the tree to save aira's daughter but sided with the tribe against aga's brutality after years of endless fighting Frank trapped his vengeful comrad in the cave away from the river petrifying them failing to find the tree Frank remained tied to the river becoming a tour guide and building a village Lily and Frank travel to the Luna rotak waterfall and discover a submerged Temple containing the tree meanwhile jerim has captured McGregor and forces him to reveal Lily's location Frank the Holton the Germans and the Conquistadors all converge at the tree discovering the arrowhead is a locket containing a red gem Lily inserts the two pieces into carvings in the bark of the tree briefly blooms under the blood moon as a fight ensues Lily recovers one flower the German soldiers drown joim is crushed by a Falling Rock and Frank crashes his boat into the temple to block the river petrifying himself and the rest of the Conquistadors to save Lily realizing her true feelings for Frank Lily sacrifices the flower to lift the curse and restore his mortality Frank decides to leave the Amazon to be with her the moon's last beam blooms a single flower which Lily takes for research returning to the Village Port Frank sells his business returning to Britain Lily becomes a full professor at the University of Cambridge and sends McGregor on her behalf to reject an invitation to join the Royal Society Lily and Frank then explore London together as she teaches him how to drive a car cast uh Dwayne Johnson stars as Frank Wolf Emily Blunt stars as Dr Lily hoton Dwayne Johnson as Frank Wolf DL flasco Lopez de Heria a shrewd and cynical But ultimately Noble Steamboat sker who reluctantly agrees to guide to exploring on their quest for the mythical tree he eventually reveals his true name and identity as aira's adopted brother and one of the cursed conquistadors forever trapped by the Amazon River he is a trained cartographer who has spent centuries searching for the tree to break the curse that made him Immortal so he can die peacefully meanwhile he has built a town and a boat he christened laquila for his business under jungle navigation company while owning a number of tamed exotic cats as a pet each named proximad Emily Blunt as Dr Lily Horton an eccentric adventurous and virtuous botanist working in a male dominated field who hopes to find the tree in order to harness its power for modern medicine possessing an ancient Arrowhead and one of Frank's Old maps of the Amazon she proves she is resourceful and capable in martial arts and lockpicking skills despite the fact that she cannot swim until Frank helps her out with it at Luna Rota she wants to prove herself equal to her chauvinistic peers but gains some notoriety for wearing trousers Edgar Ramirez aagar a Spanish conquistador who once saw the tree's power to save his ill daughter only to be cursed with immortality for his cruelty towards his Guardians temporarily freed by German explorers he sets out to take revenge on his adopted brother Frank for turning on him his partially decomposed body is now composed of an infestation of snakes and as such he possesses the ability to convert part or all of his body into snakes Jack whiteall as McGregor hton Lily's younger brother who works as her assistant he later confesses to Frank that the rest of their family disowned him after he was outed as being gay when he refused to marry a woman prompting Lily to hire him so he could support himself and he has been loyal to her ever since as a somewhat fish snob who aderes to proper etiquette and prefers wearing three-piece suits he seems ill suited to Jungle life but gradually develops into a more confident rugged Man by the end of the expan Jesse Playman as Prince Joakim a deranged and ambitious German Royal who finances and leads a military expan with mercenaries to claim the Tree of Life both to Aid Germany's war effort and Achieve immortality he Reed receives aid from the cursed conquistadors after he frees them for his own interest and communicates with them through their bees and snakes Paul gamati as neilo nemolato the Harbor Master at nilo's River Adventure Port of elho where Frank Moors his boat nilo owns a maluan coatu named Rosita he is also a business rival and confiscates Frank's boat engine when Frank is unable to repay him alone with Rosita constantly quoting Frank owes me money this leads Frank to wreck nilo's prize boats in return additionally Veronica Falcom plays trade Sam the fimale chief of the puka Muna trein who is a longtime friend of Franks and knows about the curse the puka Muna tribe has a centuries long history of guarding the tree but Sam does not know the exact location herself until Lily shows her the arrowed Dan Daren Carter Danny rovera and quim Gutierrez player Gear's fellow conquistadors as respectively Gonzalo whose partially decomposed body is composed ey and vines's composed of tree parts and Vines as Sancho whose is composed of Honeycombs and the colonies of honeybees that ride on him and melker whose is composed of mud and the poison D frogs that ride on him the latter two conquistadors have the ability to dissolve into their constituent parts to rapidly move through the jungle as well as maintain telepathic control of the creatures inhabiting their bodies Andy nyman plays Sir James Hobs codington the Royal society's artifact Handler who briefly helps Prince joim while Rafal alad alandro plays zaku Frank's young assistant other characters include the chief of the puka Muna tribe in played by Pedro Lopez who cursed the kadori and his daughter played by suum Calderon who protects the artifact away from the jungle also stunt actor Ben Jenkin was on set for the motion capture of Proxima Frank's devoted pet Jaguar she is one of a series of exotic South American cats rescued and trained by Frank that were all given the same name out of fear and later affectionately McGregor nicknames her murder cat references to the ride Frank's puns are derived from the Skipper's lines on the original theme park ride Lily's personality is inspired by Indiana Jones the boat is named after Mama killer the coatu whose real name is Lovergirl is named after the singing bird Rosita at Disneyland's Enchanted Ticky room the film has several elements referencing Dr Albert Falls a fictional character at Disneyland who has discovered swies of Falls and has founded the jungle navigation company production early versions see also jungle cruise in December it was announced that Jungle Cruise would be developed for Manderville forms with a script by Josh Goldstein and John noville following the success of Pirates of the Caribbean the film was announced to take place within the 20th century and was Loosely inspired by the theme park attraction of the same name which featured prominently in Disneyland's grand opening Inn in Alfred GFF and Miles Miller were in talks to write the film in February e it was announced that Tom Hanks and Tim Allen who had previously worked together in the Toy Story franchise would star in the long gestating film with a script to be written by Rogers H Shan pre-production Joe kollet sah director of jungle cruise in August it was announced that Walt Disney Pictures was revamping the film adaptation to Star Dwayne Johnson the previous script originally written by Goldstein a novel would be Rewritten by John rqua and Glenn ficara with the intention to hearken back to its period Roots John Davis and John Fox signed in as producers Johnson who did a lot of research before getting into the role announced in April that he would co-produce the film under his seven bucks Productions and he expressed his interest in having Patty Jenkins Helm the project however in July Jo collet was announced as the Director of the film in January Michael Green was reported to have Rewritten the script previously worked on by J D Payne and Patrick McCay also Emily Blunt signed on as Johnson wanted her to be his co-star blunt was paid between Neilon for her involvement casting why Edgar Ramirez plays the role of a gear in March an open casting call was made for the other characters in the film including men and women of all ethnicities between ages two and children between and years old in the same month Jack whiteall was cast as the brother of Blunt's character 6 months later it was reported that he would have a coming out scene in the film with Johnson this would be the second incidence of a gay character in a live-action Disney film the first being Lee Fu portrayed by Josh Gad In the adaptation of Beauty and the Beast there was some backlash over the report with some persons online expressing anger over a straight man being cast as a camp gay character in April Edgar Ramirez and Jesse plans were added to the cast as villains with the former being a man with a concador background in May Paul jamati was cast to portray a crusty Harbor Master in June Kim Gutierrez joined the cast to portray one of the villains in July it was announced that Veronica Falcon dannie riera and Andy Nyon had joined the cast before Falcon was cast as Trader Sam a role inspired by a Mala character at the theme park it was discussed whether the role would be a male or a female character in the film filming the first span of the shoot began on May e in Hawaii where a port town was set up at kapaya Reservoir Kawaii near wayua Falls the set took 1 month to scout 2 months to design and 4 months to build dress and Landscape while being challenged by the flood Reigns other shoot locations include the town of Lee hu the Kawai Plantation Railway and hulia stream after 7 weeks the Shute then moved for a major course at blackall Studios Atlanta where a pool was set up in a large tank like the river as well as the jungle in it some scenes were also filmed at the Oxford College of Emory University two boats of length feet were built for easy Logistics in filming at both the locations revealed production designer Gene Vincent puos Paco Delgado said that while some of the suits are original from the 20th century the costumes for the main characters and the Tribbles were specially made for the film for which he researched the cultures of different tribes in the Amazon he said that Amelia aart was the inspiration for Blunt's costume Joel harow did make up for background characters to detail their appearance whether with a sunburn or an insect bite also he made tattoo designs for tribal characters tanoai Reed and Miles humphus were Johnson's stunned doubles while Lauren Shaw was blunts the film cinematographer fio Martinez laano revealed that the blue screen technology was used magenta tinted lights were used for a sequence of the tree he also wanted to show colorful London in the summer unlike many other films which depict London in winter when it's foggy and its blue AR Alexa X Plus cameras were used with specially designed Panavision CS series anamorphic lenses to shoot the underwater sequence a puzzle set was built in the second tank and then it was filled with water underwater cinematographer ianca Brook said that it took about 2 weeks to shoot simult simultaneously while the main cast was also busy shooting in the first tank so the stunt doubles had to be present there too he said that while Johnson was a strong swimmer blunt showed no fear despite being a novice in acting underwater in any case the water tank had emergency exits for her to the right and the left of the camera the set had to be pulled out of the water by a crane so he handheld the camera throughout filming wrapped on September with about days of principal photography a few re-shoot took place before June which took 3 weeks in Atlanta Johnson shared that the film pays homage to the African queen Romancing the Stone and Indiana Jones postproduction Ethan van derin and Eric Adel served as the sound designers while Joel Negron served as the film or with neg industrial Light and Magic Rodeo effects Rising Sun pictures and wait to digital providing the visual effects along with the turd Flor it took about a year in the post- production stage but was shut down in March due to the pandemic however it resumed in the summer and was completed in September the color of the Amazon River is very distinctive the water had to appear brown but not dirty to reflect its organic nature we also produced more than varieties of trees and distributed them in a procedural way across the landscape in a manner consistent with how they occur in real life our widest shot includes more than million trees bushes and other species malalas sanus EIC supervisor at RIS after filming and before the post- production phase the teams were sent to the Amazon rainforest Brazil and Costa Rica Forest where they recorded the actual surroundings including pristine wildlife and hundreds of species of exotic birds so the background effects Library can be created for the brat using different types of microphones including ambisonic and parabolic two Alexa minis a drone and several cameras were used for the reference photography and footage which took about 3 weeks the Port Town the water and the jungle all were built on a limited scale and were extended through Ki to create backgrounds plate shots were also captured at the Colorado River these were used to animate the turbulent and erated water so the boat can be animated running at C slash on the river as its journey is seen in the film The D team made such effects like light reflecting off the water bugs flying around and duw glistening on leaves so the film weather looks humid in the summer the submarine was also digitally extended after it was shot in a tank to visualize the explosions by torpedo Rubber and wooden structures were used the big trick with that was the art direct ability of the boat the speed of which you went through the Rapids and what kind of splashes it made I think with a sequence like that it's so heavily buried in physics and if you start to try and cheat those physics which is what happens a lot of the time then the simulation stuff all goes right out the window and it breaks everything no Luke Miller VEC supervisor at waa digital to portray the character of Proxima a stunt actor in a Jaguar morph suit as well as a stuffed toy were on set to animate it for the film a collection of plates from Big Cats was used with most references taken from a female jaguar in San Diego Zoo before its Dem modeling and sculpting with details like a mark on her forehead a folded over ear and the muscle and skin system other animals were also observed to create its reaction to interactions a pet cat also made an appearance as baby Proxima in sequences of the pink river dolphins each one was animated separately to build its own character while the Piranhas were also created with ski to animate the Conquistadors each character was built with different body parts to make it not completely human materials were gathered to study the actual movements of the snakes for the animation and the character was made Serpentine with sounds of the snake recorded from pressurized air releases the frogs were recorded from Costa Rica forest for the mud guy while honeycomb dripping sound was used for the Beehive guy the sounds of wood stress were used for the tree guy whose character was completely animated except for some of his only facial expressions initially there were ideas to explore more of the Conquistadors with different characteristics but these were settled on four only the scene for the tree of life was animated after taking inspiration from banan trees bbobs anle wat and call native South American trees to give it an ancient look the branches were made in higher resolution to keep the tree very organic and verging on Nal the tree growth and petal variations were observed and lighting balance was considered in order to animate the exposing and reverting Luminosity of the petals after merging different shots the sequence also contains fully digital characters most of the environmental surroundings and water elements were bu and animated on Houdini while the greenery was developed on speed Tree Music main article Jungle Cruise soundtrack James Newton Howard composed the score of jungle Cru your Metallica also collaborated for an instrumental version of one of their tracks in January it was announced that James Newton Howard joined the production as the film score composer by August it was revealed that Metallica collaborated with Howard on an instrumental version of the song Nothing Else Matters for the film according to the band's drummer lar allrich Metallica worked on the film after Disney pictures president Shawn Bailey felt like jungle Cru was the right fit for a collaboration between Disney and Metallica Bailey had been always looking for the right match where there was a way that Metallica could contribute to some Disney project the band members recorded their parts from their individual Studios due to the co pandemic the score was recorded in February by a person Orchestra with vocals provided by members from the Los Angeles Master Corral in order to add a regional flavor Howard Incorporated pan pipes and Brazilian percussion instruments frequent Metallica collaborated Greg fiddle man served as associate producer and engineer the soundtrack album was released on July e by Walt Disney records release theatrical and streaming jungle Cru had its World premiere at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim California on July it was released in the United States on July e simultaneously in theaters and on Disney plus with Premier access for us saw it had a special screening on July by D at L Capitan theater initially it was slated for October before being moved to July e and was postponed due to the covid pandemic in May Disney announced that the film would be released simultaneously in theaters and on Disney plus with Premier access due to the continued closure of the's markill like Brazil and Europe as in Mark as the SARS kovi Delta variant surged this is the last Disney plus Premier access release to date with Disney mostly instituting a day exclusive theatrical window before coming to stream it was also released in India on September and in China on November a home media Jungle Cruise had a digital release on August and it was released via K Blu-ray and DVD on November this includes minutes of deleted scenes and bonus featurettes it debuted at top the Ned videos can first allot ranking first in both the overall disc sales and Blu-ray sales percent of the sales came from Blu-ray including pent from K Blu-ray and percent from traditional Blu-ray the following week it was displaced to the second position by F due to the discounts offered around Black Friday while ranking first on red Box's rental charts the third week saw it falling to the third rank in overall disc sales while retaining its position on the Redbox rental charts reception PV viewership in its opening weekend Disney reported the film made million from worldwide Disney plus Premier sales with samb TV saying million of it came from zuu ush holds by the end of its first days the viewership had grown to million households for an estimated revenue of million Dian after its release on dis the film topped red Box's digital chart for two consecutive weeks in the third week it dropped to the fourth rank in January Tech firm Mami reported the Jungle Cruise was the 10th most pirated film of box office Jungle Cruise gross to million in the United States and Canada and million in other territories for a worldwide total of Y million with an estimated combined production and promotional cost of million the film needed to gross around million worldwide in order to break even in other territories the film debuted at million from markets below its million projections its largest market with the UK D million France million and South Korea million in its second weekend the film made s million from markets with the top running totals being from the UK villion Russia Russia million France million million Japan million million million and Saudi Arabia million in China earned million during its debut weekend ranking fifth on the box office charts this was considered a disappointing opening by media Outlets in the following weekend it fell to the seventh rank critical response on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes percent of critics reviews are positive with an average rating of Dev where lash websites consensus reads its craft isn't quite as sturdy as some of the classic Adventures indebted to but jungle cruise remains a fun family-friendly Voyage Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of out of based on critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of eight on an A+ to f scale while post Trak reported that percent of audience members gave it a positive score with pron saying they would definitely recommend it writing for variety Owen gleberman praised Johnson and Blunt's chemistry and said that the film is a little good oldfashioned and it pelts the audience with entertainment in such a lively yet bumptious way that at times you may wish you were wearing protective jir Corey Coleman and Martin Thomas of Double Toasted both gave it a relatively positive review even going so far as to predict that other critics would negative critique it simply because of its premise however they were both split on the portrayal of Jack White Hall's character while Thomas found it as a positive step forward for LGBT characters Coleman found it somewhat campy and unnecessary Rolling Stone reviewer David fear gave the film pum stars and called him stars and called it an attempt to sell the Magic Kingdom's vintage boat Riders the next big Endless Summer movie thing adding that blunt tart apple crisp of a comic performance pairs nicely with Johnson's beer beef cake served with with a side of ham in the New York Times Janette catulus wrote a negative review that the film is a soggy mess with a mostly unintelligible plot adding that it exhibits a blatantly foe exoticism that feels as flat as the forced frisen between its two leads reviewer Peter Travis commented that made up of spare parts from better movies and at over 2 hours in length the film will be tough on short attention spans however he added that it is better than Haunted Mansion and Tomorrowland other films based on Disney rides sick quell after the release weekend of jungle Cru Dwayne Johnson announced that discussions were underway with Walt Disney pictures for a sequel which could answer many questions left behind in the film on August e it was reported that Johnson and blunt were set to reprise their roles in the sequel Michael Green is developing the script with Jan kitera expected to return as the Director while John Davis John Fox Bo Flynn Johnson Denny Garcia and ham Garcia returned to produce with Scott Sheldon returning as executive producer Johnson later confirmed a sec was in development on that same day via a video posted on his official Instagram account Garcia shared that Johnson and blunt both have many ideas to explore more of their characters in the sequel in October producer bof Flynn confirmed that work on the script is ongoing while also stating that Johnson and blunt are more determined to make sure that a sequel happens though they could not State when it will be made Jungle Cruise formerly named Jungle river cruise is a Riverboat amusement ride located in the adventur Land Theme section at various Disney theme parks worldwide the attraction is a simulated riverboat cruise that travels along a Waterway using a concealed guidance system through areas with Asian African and South American themes a live Disney cast member acts as a tour guide and boat Skipper that Loosely follows a rehearsed script providing passengers with a comedic narrative the first installation of the ride was featured at Disneyland for its grand opening in a variety of changes were made over the years including enhanced audio effects updates to the story line and the removal of culturally sensitive material the installation at Hong Kong Disneyland features a significantly different storyline from the other parks and provides guests with three different language options each with its own line qu following years of planning and delays a film adaptation of the ride was released in the United States on July e inspiration and design the project was planned by Disney to incorporate a jungle themed ride into the list of attractions featured at Disneyland's grand opening in sources of inspiration include a documentary called the African Lion from the true LOF Adventures film series as well as the adventure fiic and the African queen Disney imagineer Harper goof referenced the African queen frequently in his ideas and Drew inspiration from the steamer depicted in the film for the ride vehicle design Bill Evans was the imagineer responsible for landscaping Disneyland and most of Walt Disney World during the development of jungle cruise he was given the somewhat complicated task of creating a realistic jungle on a limited budget in addition to importing actual tropical plants he Incorporated character plants which have an exotic appearance despite not being exotic he used a well-known trick of uprooting local orange trees and replanting them upside down growing vines on the exposed roots the rides water Clarity known as turbidity is controlled in a manner that obscures the boat's guidance system and other undesirable items like perches and mechanized platforms of the bathing audio animatronic elephants and hippos the Waterway was originally dyed brown but was later changed to other colors first to a green Hue and later to a bluish green when water returns to the attraction it travels through a inches me diameter underground pipe before it can be utilized again the Waterway depth is approximately feet yes me and circulates Southward from the Northern end of frontierland rivers of America to fantas land the path of the ride takes Riders past Frontier land's entrance and into Adventure Land where it drifts alongside the Ticky room before re-entering Jungle Cruise near the cruise near the rides ex exit the efo foot me Waterway was later shortened and rerouted in citation needed although goof and Evans can be cred with the creation and initial design of the ride animator Mark Davis recognized for his work on venerable attractions such as the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean added his own style in later versions the Indian elephant bathing pool and rhinoceros chasing explorers up a pole were among his contributions Disneyland the attraction was in the opening day roster of the park and has remained open and largely unchanged in theme and story since then the original plan was to use real animals but these plans were abandoned once Disney realized that the animals would likely sleep during the day aside from alterations and maintenance changes four completely new show scenes have been added to date in the river channel was rerouted to make way for the Q buildings and entrance Courtyard of the Indiana Jones Adventure while the ride's comedic Spiel is filled with intentionally bad puns by the skipper the original intent of the ride was to provide a realistic believable Voyage Through the world's jungles the original Spiel was similar to the narration of a nature documentary citation needed attraction summary the Q and station are themed as the headquarters and Boat House of the Jungle navigation company a River Trading Company located in a Colony as shown by the Union Jack flying above the boat house Circa the queuing area is cluttered with appropriate props such as pinned insects an old radio on top of a bookshelf an old typewriter and a chess board with miniature animals and decorated shotgun shells replacing the pieces the extended Q WIS upstairs and then downstairs again big band music from the a SS and S plays overhead punctuated by jungle themed news bulletins helping to reinforce the setting and threading together the show scen and boat once aboard the boats guests are introduced to their Skipper and they head into the jungle allegedly never to return the first Rivers simulated are the iradi and Mong Rivers representing tropical southeast Asia the boats sail through a dense rainforest inhabited by large butterflies and a pair of tucans before passing by the Temple of the Forbidden eye and a shrine of a cobra beholding a crystal ball passengers then Glide precariously under the first of a pair of stone archers severely damaged by an earthquake centuries ago these are part of the ruins of an ancient Cambodian City where a crumbling Temple is one of the few things which have managed to avoid tumbling into the river here passengers see an indines tiger giant spiders king cobras and mugger crocodiles passing a statue of a bowing elephant the boats pass under the second Arch and enter the sacred Indian elephant bathing pool here a large herd of Indian elephants Frolic and squirt water at the passing vessels the theme moves to the rivers of Africa here Riders see a family of babones and a safari camp that has been overrun by gorillas the boats narrow avoid the dramatic waterfall schweiter Falls which Riders are told is named after doctor Albert Falls and turned down Africa's Nile River where they pass between two African elephants and large termit Mounds a tableau of the African velt follows showing giraffes wilderbeast zebras vultures and gazel then a pride of lions feasting on a zebra beneath a rocky outcropping beyond the Lion's Den an angry black rhinoceros has chased a safari party up a tree much to the amusement of spotted hyenas the skipper then Pilots the boat into the Congo River spotting the wreckage of a boat that has sunk while also disturbing a pod of hippos that signal their intent to attack the boat drums and chanting are heard as the boats enter through the Congo and end up in a place called Head Hunter country guests can spot another boat being taken over by chimpanzees as they raid the boat of its supplies and accessories the boats then pass by more chimpanzees who have raided the box of butterflies the boats now pass behind schweiter Falls referred to as the backside of water which they call the eighth wonder of the world to enter the Amazon River skeletal animal remains and warning signs featuring pictures of daggertooth to fish for war the next show scene where the boats encounter a swarm of Leaping piranha the guests then pass a couple of water buffalo and a boa constrictor the boats then finally pass by a former lost and found stand which has been transformed by Trader Sam to become Trader Sam's Gift Shop boats there are vehicles with a maximum of in operation at any given time with guests and training vehicle the boats in were painted as clean idealized replicas but have since been given a more realistic theming reflecting the grunge and wear of actual watercraft due to the addition of Indiana Jones adventure and its rugged finin names in use Amazon Bell renamed Jingle Bell during Christmas Congo Queen renamed Congo carola then candy cane queen during Christmas gangas gal Reena gangas Gallen then gingerbread gal during Christmas Hondo hatti renowned Hondo Holly then Hanukah hatti during Christmas iradi woman renam and IR snowwoman during Christmas kissim eight renowned Yu Kimi then kissimi under the Mr toe during Christmas Nile princess wheelchair accessible vehicle renamed Nile Nutcracker then Noel Melly during Christmas orinoko adventurous renamed orinoko ornament then NAD adventuress during Christmas suani lady renamed suani Sly then sugar plum lady during Christmas you kayali unaa wheelchair accessible vehicle renowned you Kay Ali eggnog then Evergreen Uno during Christmas yanga Lotus renowned you tide Lotus during Christmas Zambezi Miss renamed peppermint Miss during Christmas names di commissioned in in magdalina Maiden Mong Maiden Magic Kingdom the Walt Disney World jungle cruise is set as a depressiona British outpost on the Amazon River operated by the fictional company the jungle navigation Co whose advertisement poster is painted on the wall near the exit of the attraction Albert A's broadcast is different from that of Disney Disneylands being rid specific also unlike Disneyland the queue never extended to a second level near the hippo pool a piece of a downed airplane can be seen along the shoreline this is the back half of the Lockheed model Electra junor previously found out the great movie Rider Disney's Hollywood thee each variety of plant throughout the attraction was carefully selected by landscape architect Bill Evans to ensure that the foliage would be able to endure Florida's unique climate hot summers and relatively cool Winters the most difficult aspect of this was making sure these plants had the appropriate look and feel of traditional tropical plants in the equatorial jungle a jungle cruise themed restaurant the skipper canteen open in December and expanded on the jungle navigation Co storyline making Dr R Albert falls into the founder of the company in with his granddaughter Alberta Falls taking charge of the navigation company and the jungle cruise in the Zess qer the Q of the jungle cruise is heavily themed with period artifacts tools gear photos and more it is intended to resemble a colonial Outpost with where an exploration of the Jungle Rivers may be booked it is divided into four main sections which may be opened or closed in sequence to accommodate crowd fluctuation the queue was designed to wind about extensively so that guests may see all of the different artifacts in the queue the most notable section of the queue is the office of Albert AAL attraction summary the skipper welcomes the boat full of guests down the tropical rivers of the World the ride starts out in the Amazon River where the passengers encounter butterflies with 1ft winds pans or as the skipper might say 12 in the boat then passes inspiration Falls which transitions into the Congo River in Africa the boat passes by a beach with a shop named boats and baits and bites and then passes an African rock python the boat then passes a camp that has been raided by Western gaded by Western gorillas which transitions the cruise into the Nile River after encountering two African elephants the boat passes along the African velt Riders see numerous African animals including giraffes gazel vultures Wilder beasts and zebras watching a pride of lions feasting on a zebra beneath a rocky outcropping the boat then passes a lost Safari group that has been chased up a pole by an angry black rhinoceros and are now trapped and surrounded by spotted hyenas Albert Falls and heads past the remains of a plane crash the boat then encounters a pool of hippers about to charge the boat until the skipper scares them off the boat passes by another boat being raided of its supplies by chimpanzees and then proceeds into the Mong River after encountering mugger crocodiles they enter a temple that has been destroyed by an earthquake inside some king cobras monkeys spiders and a Bengal tiger can be found after they exit they come across an elephant bathing pool where numerous Indian elephants are relaxing in the water the cruise concludes after the boat narrowly avoids being sprayed by water from one of the elephants Tokyo Disneyland jungle cruise in Tokyo Disneyland shares a station complex with the Western River Railroad the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland attractions are very similar to each other with the exception of a few minor differences while the boats in the Magic Kingdom's attraction travel counterclockwise the boats at Tokyo Disneyland travel in a clockwise Direction in Tokyo Disneyland the station and surrounding area are themed to a more upscale African city as opposed to an isolated jungle Outpost this version shares a station building with the park steam train ride Western River Railroad the spiels in Tokyo Disneyland are delivered in Japanese in E the ride was revamped and renamed Jungle Cruise Wildlife Experience this new version contains unique special effects and background music boats there are vehicles with a maximum of in operation at any given time all boat names except orinoka are alliterations Amazon Annie ganas Gerty iri Irma quango Kate ah Mong Maiden Mikan Nile Nelly orinoko Ida reru Ruby sankuru sadii senagal Sal ah vaval W wamba zambesi Zelda retired boats Congo Connie retired in a hong Hong Kong Disneyland jungle River Cruise at Hong Kong Disneyland fire God sets and a water bomb the shape of Hong Kong Disneyland's route is significantly different compared to the others and circumnavigates Tarzan's Treehouse a grand finale is included with a battle between angry Fire and Water Gods three languages are regularly available Cantonese English and Mandarin each language has a separate cue allowing visitors to experience the journey in their preferred language attraction summary the queue takes place in a small boat of the Jungle navigation Co that is less elaborate than the boat houses found at the other Parks after winding through the queue guests board one of the boats and meet their Skipper who speaks either English Cantonese or Mandarin which are the official languages of Hong Kong the boats then depart and head down the river past taren's Treehouse where the skipper tells guests to wave goodbye to the guests traversing the treehouse for they will never see them again the boats then drift past an Indian Elephant and her Cal playing in the water followed by another elephant showering in a waterfall a large bull Indian elephant emerges from the water squirting a plume of water at the boats with the guests narrowly avoiding the free shower the vessels then drift down a narrow stream past ancient Cambodian ruins which have been claimed by the jungle giant spiders and king cobras watch the boats as they move on up ahead several crocodiles are seen resting on a small Beach while a school of hungry piranha are jumping in the hopes of attacking the guests the boats Escape into Africa and pass a large Safari camp where several curious gorillas have discovered clothes guns hammocks and books as the trash in or the song from Taren plays on a nearby Radio the African velt comes into view where Antelope giraffes zebras and African elephants stare at the boats the vessels then drift into a small pool where a pot of hippos try to tip the boat several feet ahead a rhino is seen chasing a safari group up a tree while several hyenas look on laughing skulls and cloth impaled on broken bamboo sticks appears as tribal drums and horns fill the air the skipper tells guest that they have entered head head hence country and must quietly sneak by the boats slowly pass through the main village where several upright Shields Rest In The Tall Grass a native notices the boats and all the shields now revealed to have Head Hunters behind them begin firing Spears and poison darts at the boats as they narrowly escape into a rocky Canyon in the Rocky Canyon the boats sto near two unusual rock formations that look like faces revealed by the skipper to be the fire god and the water God who constantly Feud over their differences the fire God sets the river Ablaze while the water God vomits a water bomb causing the Flames to die and the whole Canyon to become a cloud of steam the boats escape the canyon and pass a baby elephant before returning to the boat house boats there are vehicles with a maximum of in operation at any given time emazon Annie Congo Queen wheelchair accessible gangis gal wheelchair accessible iradi imma Liang lady mikum Maiden Nile Nelly yangzi Ying Ying zambi Zelda Albert a Albert aall is a fictional jungle cruise boat captain and disc jockey for the Disney Broadcasting Company considered the voice of the Jungle he broadcasts everything from news to quizzes reminders weather Etc on the Dex Disney broadcast company he also serves as a period disc jockey for the station filling the airwaves with music from the Depression era Albert aall was added in to the Jungle Cruise during a refurbishment according to one report standing in the jungle cruise queue was a somber Affair prior to the aforementioned rehab once guests crossed the threshold they were faced with a series of twists and turns that led past bare walls their fellow guests and occasional glimpses of the river there was no background music at that time either so if the queue was full it promised a fair amount of shuffling drudgery of course dl's Jungle Cruise Q is now closer to the full embodiment of how cool a ride's waiting space can be but Florida's upgrade did include Q music interspersed with radio commentary by Albert a wall the voice of the Jungle a considerable array of visual enhancements were also made at that same time from a series of new destination-based wall murals to the artifact Laden office Moab in the center of the queue Albert's broadcast is projected not just over the jungle Cru queuing area but over Adventure Land as a whole setting the time period in Disneyland Albert is replaced by jungle radio various air personalities comment on the environment The Luminaries who are in the area insiding references to the designers of the attraction Harper golf Bob Matty Winston hibler trol trath Ros Adventure films a on which jungle cruise is based the music is a good deal slower in Pace and Tempo than the tracks used at Walt Disney World the music was previously linked with the outdoor speakers at the Temple of the Forbidden ey in Diana Jones Adventure however two separate tracks of material with similar tone and some songs now exist the jungle radio at Disneyland does connect the setting with the nearby Indiana Jones attraction and ties in announcements that reference Indiana Jones and the Temple in which the ride is set in E Donna giri leads Spanish conquistadors to South America to search for the lagras de Crystal tree whose flowers cure illness heal injuries lift curses and may save his infirmed daughter after many conquistadors die the puka Muna tribe heals the survivors with the trees's flowers the tribal Chief refuses to reveal the tree's location so agir stabs him and burns the village the dying Chief curses the Conquistadors making them Immortal and unable to leave sight of the Amazon River without being dragged back by the jungle itself in London McGregor Horton presents his sister Dr Lily Horton's tears of the Moon research to the Royal Society which bars women members the Halton hope to revolutionize both medicine and Aid the British war effort they request access to a recently acquired Arrowhead artifact that Lily believes can locate the tear of the Moon tree but are denied Lily steals the artifact narrowly evading prince joim who is equally intent on finding the tree for himself and Germany after arriving in Brazil Lily and McGregor higher Skipper Frank Wolf to guide them down the Amazon Frank who offers jungle Cruisers embellished with faked dangers initially declines citing the dangerous river and jungle but reconsiders upon seeing the arrowhead the trio departs after escaping join submarine Lily discovers Frank's tears of the Moon research but he insists he stopped searching long ago they are captured by cannibals that are actually the puka masuna tribe who worked for Frank as part of his contrived Jungle Cruise Adventure angered Lily distrusts Frank and sets off to find the tree herself tribal Chief Trader Sam translates the symbols on the arrowhead revealing the tree's location and that it only blooms under a blood moon meanwhile Joachim locates the Conquistadors petrified inside a cave and partially revives them with Amazon water Ager agrees to bring joim the arrowhead in exchange for lifting the curse when he finds the flowers joim diverts river water to flood the cave which reanimates Agera and his conquistadors and infuses them with rainforest elements The Conquistadors attack the tribe and Aira stabs Frank through the heart Lily flees with the artifact chased by Conquest doors but the jungle vines pull them back to the river preventing her capture to the halton's amazement an alive Frank soon reappears he reveals he is also a cursed Conquistador he helped search for the tree to save aga's daughter but sided with the tribe against aga's brutality after years of endless fighting Frank trapped his vengeful comrades in the cave away from the river petrifying them failing to find the tree Frank remained tied to the river becoming a tour guide and building a village Lily and Frank travel to the Luna rotak waterfall and discover a submerged Temple containing the tree meanwhile Jim has captured McGregor and forces him to reveal Lily's location Frank the Holton the Germans and the Conquistadors all converge at the tree discovering the arrowhead is a locket containing a red gem Lily inserts the two pieces into carvings in the bark of the tree briefly blooms under the blood moon as a fight ensues Lily recovers one flower the German soldiers drown joim is crushed by a Falling Rock and Frank crashes his boat into the temple to block the river petrifying himself and the rest of the Conquistadors to save Lily realizing her true feelings for Frank Lily sacrifices the flower to lift the curse and restore his mortality Frank decides to leave the Amazon to be with her the moon's last beam blooms a single flower which Lily takes for research returning to the Village Port Frank sells his business returning to Britain Lily becomes a full professor at the University of Cambridge and sends McGregor on her behalf to reject an invitation to join the Royal Society Lily and Frank then explore London together as she teaches him how to drive a car cast uh Dwayne Johnson stars as Frank Wolf Emily Blunt stars as Dr Lily hotton Dwayne Johnson as Frank Wolf DL flasco Lopez De Heredia a shrewd and cynical But ultimately Noble Steamboat sker who reluctantly agrees to guide two explorers on their quest for the mythical tree he eventually reveals his true name and identity as aira's adopted brother and one of the cursed conquistadors forever trapped by the Amazon River he is a trained cartographer who has spent centuries searching for the tree to break the curse that made him immortal so he can die peacefully meanwhile he has built a town and a boat he christened laquila for his business under jungle navigation company while owning a number of tamed exotic cats as a pet each named proximad eily blunt as Dr Lily Horton an eccentric adventurous and virtuous botanist working in a male dominated field who hopes to find the tree in order to harness its power for modern medicine possessing an ancient Arrowhead and one of Frank's Old maps of the Amazon she proves she is resourceful and capable in arts and lockpicking skills despite the fact that she cannot swim until Frank helps her out with it at Luna Rota she wants to prove herself equal to her chauvinistic peers but gains some notoriety for wearing trousers Edgar Ramirez aagar a Spanish conquistador who once sought the tre's power to save his ill daughter only to be cursed with immortality for his cruelty towards his Guardians temporarily freed by German explorers he sets out to take revenge on his adopted brother Frank for turning on him his partially decomposed body is now composed of an infestation of snakes and as such he possesses the ability to convert part or all of his body into snakes Jack whiteall as McGregor hton Lily's younger brother who works as her assistant he later confesses to Frank that the rest of their family disowned him after he was outed as being gay when he refused to marry a woman prompting Lily to hire him so he could support himself and he has been loyal to her ever since as a somewhat fish snob who aderes to proper etiquette and prefers wearing three-piece suits he seems ill suited to Jungle life but gradually develops into a more confident rugged Man by the end of the expan Jesse Playman as Prince Joachim a deranged and ambitious German Royal who finances and leads a military expan with mercenaries to claim the Tree of Life both to Aid Germany's war effort and Achieve immortality he receives aid from the cursed Conquest adors after he frees them for his own interest and communicates with them through their bees and snakes Paul gamati as nilo nemolato the Harbor Master at nilo's River Adventure P of elho where Frank Moors his boat neilo owns a maluan coatu named Rosita he is also a business rival and confiscates Frank's boat engine when Frank is unable to repay him alone with Rosita constantly quoting Frank owes me money this leads Frank to wreck nilo's prize boats in return additionally Veronica Falcom plays Trader Sam the fimale chief of the puka Muna trebin who is a longtime friend of Franks and knows about the curse the puka Muna tribe has a centuries long history of guarding the tree but Sam does not know the exact location herself until Lily shows her the arrowed Dan Daren Carter Danni rovera and quim Gutierrez player ge's fellow conquistadors as respectively Gonzalo whose partially decomposed body is composed I and Vines is composed of tree parts and Vines is Sancho whose is composed of Honeycombs and the colonies of honeybees that ride on him and melker whose is composed of mud and the poison D frogs that ride on him the latter two conquistadors have the ability to dissolve into their constituent parts to rapidly move through the jungle as well as maintain telepathic control of the creatures inhabiting their bodies and Andy Nyon plays Sir James Hobs codington the Royal society's artifact Handler who briefly helps Prince joim while Rafal alad alandro plays zaku Frank's young assistant other characters include the chief of the puka Muna tribe in played by Pedro Lopez who cursed The Conquistadors and his daughter played by suum Calderon who protects the artifact away from the jungle also stunt actor Ben Jenkin was on set for the motion capture of Proxima Frank's devoted pet Jaguar she is one of a series of exotic South American cats rescued and trained by Frank that were all given the same name out of fear and later affectionately McGregor nicknames her murder cat references to the ride Frank's puns are derived from the Skippers lines on the original theme park ride Lily's personality is inspired by Indiana Jones the boat is named after Mama killer the coatu whose real name is lover girl is named after the singing bird Rosita at Disneyland's Enchanted Ticky room the film has several elements referencing Dr Albert FS a fictional character at Disneyland who has discovered swiit of Falls and has founded the jungle navigation company production early versions see also jungle cruise in December it was announced that Jungle Cruise would be developed for Manderville forms with a script by Josh Goldstein and John noville following the success of Pirates of the Caribbean the film was announced to take place within the 20th century and was Loosely inspired by the theme park attraction of the same name which featured prominently in Disneyland's grand opening in in Alfred GFF and Miles Miller were in talks to write the film in February e it was announced that Tom Hanks and Tim Allen who had previously worked together in the Toy Story franchise would star in the long gestating film with a script to be written by Rogers H Shan pre-production Jo kollet sah director of jungle cruise in August it was announced that Walt Disney Pictures was revamping the film adaptation to Star Dwayne Johnson the previous script originally written by Goldstein and novel would be Rewritten by John Raya and Glenn ficara with the intention to hearken back to its period Roots John Davis and John Fox signed in as producers Johnson who did a lot of research before getting into the role announced in April that he would co-produce the film under his seven bucks Productions and he expressed his interest in having Patty Jenkins Helm the project however in July Jo ketera was announced as the Director of the film in January Michael Green was reported to have Rewritten the script previously worked on by J D Payne and Patrick McCay also Emily Blunt signed on as Johnson wanted her to be his co-star blunt was paid between million for her involvement casting why Edgar Ramirez plays the role of a gear in March an open casting call was made for the other characters in the film including men and women of all ethnicities between ages two and children between and years old in the same month Jack whiteall was cast as the brother of Blunt's character 6 months later it was reported that he would have a coming out scene in the film with Johnson this would be the second incidence of a gay character in a live-action Disney film the first being Lee fu portrayed by Josh Gad In the adaptation of Beauty and the Beast there was some backlash over the report with some persons online expressing anger over a straight man being cast as a camp gay character in April Edgar Ramirez and Jesse plans were added to the cast as villains with the for of being a man with a concador background in May Paul jamati was cast to portray a crusty Harbor Master in June Kim gutieres joined the cast to portray one of the villains in July it was announced that Veronica falcon dannie roier and Andy Nyon had joined the cast before Falcon was cast as Trader Sam a role inspired by a Mala character at the theme park it was discussed whether the role would be a male or a female character in the film filming the first span of the shoot began on May e in Hawaii where a port town was set up at kapaya Reservoir Kawaii near wayua Falls the set took one month to scout 2 months to design and four months to build dress and Landscape while being challenged by the flood range other shoot locations include the town of Lee hu the Kawai Plantation Railway and hulia stream after 7 weeks the shoot then moved for a major course at blackall Studios Atlanta where a pool was set up in a large tank like the river as well as the jungle in it some scenes were also filmed at the Oxford College of Emory University two boats of length feet were built for easy Logistics in filming at both the locations revealed production designer Gene Vincent puos Paco Delgado said that while some of the suits are original from the 20th century the costume for the main characters and the tribals were specially made for the film for which he researched the cultures of different tribes in the Amazon he said that Amelia aart was the inspiration for Blunt's costume Joel harow did make up for background characters to detail their appearance whether with a sunburn or an insect bite also he made tattoo designs for tribal characters tanoai Reed and Miles humphus were Johnson's stunned doubles while Lauren Shaw was blunts the film cinematographer fio Martinez laano revealed that the blue screen technology was used magenta tinted lights were used a sequence of the tree he also wanted to show colorful London in the summer unlike many other films which depict London in winter when it's foggy and its blue AR Alexa X Plus cameras were used with specially designed Panavision C Series anamorphic lenses to shoot the underwater sequence a puzzle set was built in the second tank and then it was filled with water underwater cinematographer Ian Brook said that it took about 2 weeks to shoot simult simultaneously while the main cast was also busy shooting in the first tank so the stunt doubles had to be present there too he said that while while Johnson was a strong swimmer blunt showed no fear despite being a novice in acting underwater in any case the water tank had emergency exits for her to the right and the left of the camera the set had to be pulled out of the water by a crane so he handheld the camera throughout filming wrapped on September with about days of principal photography a few re-shoot took place before June which took 3 weeks in Atlanta Johnson shared that the film pays homage to the African queen Romancing the Stone and Indiana Jones post- production M Ethan van derin and Eric Adel served as the sound designers while Joel migron served as the film or with neg industrial Light and Magic Rodeo effects Rising Sun pictures and waight to digital providing the visual effects along with the turd floor it took about a year in the post- production stage but was shut down in March due to the pandemic however it resumed in the summer and was completed in September the color of the Amazon River is very distinctive the water had to appear brown but not dirty to reflect it organic nature we also produced more than varieties of trees and distributed them in a procedural way across the landscape in a manner consistent with how they occur in real life our widest shot includes more than million trees bushes and other species malalas sanus viix supervisor at risp after filming and before the post- production phase the teams were sent to the Amazon rainforest Brazil and Costa Rica Forest where they recorded the actual surroundings including pristine wildlife and hundreds of species of exotic birds so the background effects Li can be created for the brat using different types of microphones including ambisonic and parabolic two Alexa minus a drone and several cameras were used for the reference photography and footage which took about 3 weeks the Port Town the water and the jungle all were built on a limited scale and were extended through Ki to create backgrounds plate shots were also captured at the Colorado River these were used to animate the turbulent and erated water so the boat can be animated running at K slash on the river as its journey is seen in the film the dteam made such effects like light reflecting off the water bugs flying around and duw glistening on leaves so the film weather looks humid in the summer the submarine was also digitally extended after it was shot in a tank to visualize the explosions by torpedo Rubber and wooden structures were used the big trick with that was the art direct ability of the boat the speed of which you went through the Rapids and what kind of splashes it made I think with a sequence like that it's so heavily buried in physics and if you start to try and cheat those physics which is what happens a lot of the time time then the simulation stuff all goes right out the window and it breaks everything no Luke Miller VEC supervisor at wa digital to portray the character of Proxima a stunt actor in a Jaguar morph suit as well as a stuffed toy were on set to animate it for the film a collection of plates from Big Cats was used with most references taken from a female jaguar in San Diego Zoo before its Dem modeling and sculpting with details like a mark on her forehead a folded over ear and the muscle and skin system other animals were also observed to create its reaction to interactions a pet cat also made an appearance as baby Proxima in sequences of the pink river dolphins each one was animated separately to build its own character while the Piranhas were also created with ski to animate The Conquistadors each character was built with different body parts to make it not completely human materials were gathered to study the actual movements of the snakes for the animation and the character was made Serpentine with sounds of the snake recorded from pressurized air releases the frogs were recorded from Costa Rica forest for the mud guide while honeycomb dripping sound was used for the Beehive guy the sounds of wood stress were used for the tree guy whose character was completely animated except for some of his only facial expressions initially there were ideas to explore more of the Conquistadors with different characteristics but these were settled on four only the scene for the tree of life was animated after taking inspiration from banan trees bbobs Ango wat and call native South American trees to give it an ancient look the branches were made in higher resolution to keep the tree very organic and verging on the tree growth and petal variations were observed and lighting balance was considered in order to animate the exposing and reverting Luminosity of the petals after merging different shots the sequence also contains fully digital characters most of the environmental surroundings and water elements were built and animated on Houdini while the greenery was developed on speed Tree Music main article Jungle Cruise soundtrack James Newton Howard composed the score of jungle Cru your Metallica also collaborated for an instrumental version of one of their tracks in January it was announced that James Newton Howard joined the production as the film score composer by August it was revealed that Metallica collaborated with Howard on an instrumental version of the song Nothing Else Matters for the film according to the band's drummer lar olrich Metallica worked on the film after Walt Disney Pictures president Shawn Bailey felt like jungle Cru was the right fit for a collaboration between Disney and Metallica Bailey had been always looking for the right match where there was a way that Metallica could contribute to some Disney project the band members recorded their parts from their individual Studios due to the covid pandemic the score was recorded in February by a person Orchestra with vocals provided by members from the Los Angeles Master Corral in order to add a regional flavor Howard Incorporated pamp pipes and Brazilian percussion instruments frequent Metallica collaborated Greg fiddleman served as associate producer and engineer the soundtrack album was released on July e by Walt Disney records release theatrical and streaming Jungle Cruise had its World premiere at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim California on July it was released in the United States on July e simultaneously in theaters and on Disney plus with Premier access for us saw it had a special screening on July by D at El Capitan theater initially it was slated for October before being moved to July e and was postponed due to the covid pandemic in May Disney announced that the film would be released simultaneously in theaters and on Disney plus with Premier access due to the continued closure of the's markill like Brazil and Europe as in Mark as the SARS kovi Delta variant surged this is the last Disney plus Premier access release to date with Disney mostly instituting a day exclusive theatrical window before coming to stream it was also released in India on September and in China on November a home media jungle Cru had a digital release on August and it was released via Kate Blu-ray and DVD on November this includes minutes of deleted scenes and bonus feature EDS it debuted at top the Ned videos conf first Aller ranking first in both the over over all disc sales and Blu-ray sales percent of the sales came from Blu-ray including pent from K Blu-ray and percent from traditional Blu-ray the following week it was displaced to the second position by F du to the discounts offered around Black Friday while ranking first on red Box's rental charts the third week saw it falling to the third rank in overall disc sales while retaining its position on the Redbox rental charts reception PV viewership in its opening weekend Disney reported the film made million from worldwide Disney plus Prem sales with samb TV saying million of it came from zuu us holds by the end of its first days the viewership had grown to million households for an estimated revenue of million dyon after its release on dis the film topped red Box's digital chart for two consecutive weeks in the third week it dropped to the fourth rank in January Tech firm mamai reported that jungle Cru was the 10th most pirated film of box office jungle Cru gross to million in the United States and Canada and million in other territories for a worldwide total of milon with an estimated combined production and promotional cost of million the film needed to gross around million worldwide in order to break even in other territories the film debuted at million from markets below its million projections its largest markets were the UK D million France million and South Korea million in its second weekend the film made sa million from markets with the top running totals being from the UK villion Russia Russia million France million million Japan million million million and Saudi Arabia million in China earned million during its debut weekend ranking fifth on the box office charts this was considered a disappointing opening by media outlets in the following weekend it fell to the seventh rank critical response on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes percent of critics reviews are positive with an average rating of Dev where lash websites consensus reads its craft isn't quite a St is some of the classic Adventures indebted to but jungle cruise remains a fun family-friendly Voyage Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of out of based on critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of eight on an A+ to f scale while post Trak reported that percent of audience members gave it a positive score with pron saying they would definitely recommend it writing for variety Owen gleberman praised Johnson and blunts chemistry and said that the film is a good oldfashioned and it pelts the audience with entertainment in such a lively yet bumptious way that at times you may wish you were wearing protective jir Corey Coleman and Martin Thomas of Double Toasted both gave it a relatively positive review even going so far as to predict that other critics would negatively critique it simply because of its premise however they were both split on the portrayal of Jack White Hall's character while Thomas found it as a positive step forward for LGBT characters Coleman found it somewhat campy and unne necessary Rolling Stone reviewer David fear gave the film pum stars and called him stars and called it an attempt to sell the Magic Kingdom's vintage boat ride as the next big Endless Summer movie thing adding that blunts tart apple crisp of a comic performance pairs nicely with Johnson's beer beef cake served with a side of ham in the New York Times Janette catulus wrote a negative review that the film is a soggy mess with a mostly unintelligible plot adding that it exhibits a blatantly foe exoticism that feels as flat as the forced frisen between its two leads reviewer Peter Travis commented that made up of spare parts from better movies and at over 2 hours in length the film will be tough on short attention spans however he added that it is better than Haunted Mansion and Tomorrowland other films based on Disney rides sick quell after the release weekend of jungle cruise Dwayne Johnson announced that discussions were underway with Walt Disney pictures for a sequel which could answer many questions left behind in the film on August e it was reported that Johnson and blunt were set to reprise their roles in the sequel Michael Green is developing the script with Jan kitera expected to return as the Director while John Davis John Fox B Flynn Johnson Denny Garcia and hyam Garcia returned to produce with Scott Sheldon returning as executive producer Johnson later confirmed a sequel was in development on that same day via a video posted on his official Instagram account Garcia shared that Johnson and blunt both have many ideas to explore more of their characters in the sequel in October producer bof Flynn confirmed that work on the script is ongoing while while also stating that Johnson and blunt are more determined to make sure that a sequel happens though they could not State when it will be made jungle Cru formerly named Jungle river cruise is a riverbat amusement ride located in the adventur Land Theme section at various Disney themed Parks worldwide the attraction is a simulated riverboat cruise that travels along a Waterway using a concealed guidance system through areas with Asian African and South American themes a live Disney cast member acts as a tour guide and boat Skipper that Loos follows a rehearsed script providing passengers with a comedic narrative the first installation of the ride was featured at Disneyland for its grand opening in a variety of changes were made over the years including enhanced audio effects updates to the story line and a removal of culturally sensitive material the installation at Hong Kong Disneyland features a significantly different storyline from the other parks and provides guests with three different language options each with its own line quue following years of planning and delays a film adaptation of the ride was released in the United States on July e inspiration and design the project was planned by Disney to incorporate a jungle themed ride into the list of attractions featured at Disneyland's grand opening in sources of inspiration include a documentary called the African Lion from the true LOF Adventures film series as well as the adventure Fick and the African queen Disney imagineer Harper golf referenced the African queen frequently in his ideas and Drew inspiration from the steamer depicted in the film for the ride vehicle design Bill Evans was the imagineer responsible for landscaping Disneyland and most of Walt Disney World during the development of jungle cruise he was given the somewhat complicated task of creating a realistic jungle on a limited budget in addition to importing actual tropical plants he Incorporated character plants which have an exotic appearance despite not being exotic he had used a well-known trick of uprooting local orange trees and replanting them upside down growing vines on the exposed roots the rides water Clarity known as turbidity is controlled in a manner that obscures the boat's guidance system and other undesirable items like perches and mechanized platforms of the bathing audio animatronic elephants and hippos the Waterway was originally dyed brown but was later changed to other colors first to a green Hue and later to a bluish green when water returns to the attraction it travels through a inches me diameter underground pipe before it can be utilized again the Waterway depth is approximately feet yes me and circulates Southward from the Northern end of frontierland rivers of America to fantas land the path of the ride takes Riders past Frontier land's entrance and into Adventure Land where it drifts along onside the Ticky room before re-entering jungle Crews near the cruise near the rides ex exit the efo foot me Waterway was later shortened and rerouted in citation needed although goof and Evans can be cred with the creation and initial design of the ride animator Mark Davis recognized for his work on venerable attractions such as the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean added his own style in later versions the Indian elephant bathing pool and rhinoceros chasing explorers up a pole were among his contributions Disneyland the attraction was in the opening day roster of the park and has remained open and largely unchanged in theme and story since then the original plan was to use real animals but these plans were abandoned once Disney realized that the animals would likely sleep during the day aside from alterations and maintenance changes four completely new show scenes have been added to date in the river channel was rerouted to make way for the Q buildings and entrance Courtyard of the Indiana Jones Adventure while the rid's comedic Spiel is filled with intentionally bad puns by the skipper the original intent of the ride was to provide a realistic believable Voyage Through the world's jungles the original Spiel was similar to the narration of a nature documentary citation needed attraction summary the Q and station are themed as the headquarters and Boat House of the Jungle navigation company a River Trading Company located in a British colony as shown by the Union Jack flying above the boat house Circa the queuing area is cluttered with appropriate props such as pinned insects an old radio on top of a bookshelf an old typewriter and a chess board with miniature animals and decorated shotgun shells replacing the pieces the extended Q WIS upstairs and then downstairs again big band music from the a SS and S plays overhead punctuated by jungle themed news bulletins helping to reinforce the setting and threading together the show scenes and boat once aboard the boats guests are introduced to their Skipper and they head into the jungle allegedly never to return the first Rivers simulated are the iradi and mikong rivers representing tropical southeast Asia the boats sail through a dense rainforest inhabited by large butterflies and a pair of tukens before passing by the Temple of the Forbidden eye and a shrine of a cobra beholding a crystal ball passengers then Glide precariously under the first of a pair of stone archers severely damaged by an earthquake centuries ago these are part of the ruins of an ancient Cambodian City where a crumbling Temple is one of the few things which have managed to avoid tumbling into the river here passengers see an indines tiger giant spiders king cobras and mugger crocodiles passing a statue of a bowing elephant the boats pass under the second Arch and enter the sacred Indian elephant bathing pool here a large herd of Indian elephants Frolic and squirt water at the passing vessels the theme moves to the rivers of Africa here Riders see a family of babones and a safari camp that has been overrun by gorillas the boats narrowly avoid the dramatic waterfall schweer Falls which Riders are told is named after doctor Albert Falls and turned down Africa's Nile River where they pass between two African elephants and large termit Mounds a tableau of the African Bel follows showing giraffes will the Beast zebras vultures and gazel then a pride of lions feasting on a zebra beneath a rocky outcropping beyond the Lion's Den an angry black rhinoceros has chased a safari party up a tree much to the amusement of spotted hyenas the skipper then Pilots the boat into the Congo River spotting the wreckage of a boat that has sunk while also disturbing a pod of hippos that signal their intent to attack the boat drums and chanting are heard as the boats enter through the Congo and end up in a place called Head Hunter country guests can spot another boat being taken over by chimpanzees as they raid the boat of its supplies and accessories the boats then pass by more chimpanzees who have raided the box of butterflies the boats now pass behind schweiter Falls referred to as the backside of water which they call the eighth wonder of the world to enter the Amazon River skeletal animal remains and warning signs featuring pictures of daggertooth to fish for war on the next show scene where the boats encounter a swarm of Leaping piranha the guests then pass a couple of water buffalo and a boa constrictor the boats then finally passed by a former lost and found stand which has been transformed by Trader Sam to become Trader Sam's Gift Shop boats there are vehicles with a maximum of in operation at any given time with guests and training vehicle the boats in were painted as clean idealized replicas but have since been given a more realistic theming reflecting the grunge and wear of actual watercraft due to the addition of Indiana Jones adventure and its rugged finin names in use Amazon Bell renamed Jingle Bell during Christmas Congo Queen renamed Congo carola then candy can queen during Christmas gangas gal Reena gangas G and then gingerbread gal during Christmas Hondo hatti renowned Hondo Holly then Hanukah hatti during Christmas iradi woman renam and iradi snowwoman during Christmas kissimi Kate renamed Yu Kimi then kissimi under the Mr toe during Christmas NY princess wheelchair accessible vehicle rened NY Nutcracker then Noel Nelly during Christmas orinoko adventurous renamed orinoko ornament then then NAD adventuress during Christmas suani lady renamed suani Sly then sugar plum lady during Christmas UK kayali unaa wheelchair accessible vehicle renowned ukay Ali eggnog then Evergreen Uno during Christmas yanga Lotus renowned ulti Lotus during Christmas Zambezi Miss renamed peppermint Miss during Christmas names di commissioned in in magdalina maiden meong maiden Magic Kingdom the Walt Disney World jungle cruise is set as a depressiona British outpost on the Amazon River operated by the fictional company the jungle navigation Co whose advertisement poster is painted on the wall near the exit of the attraction Albert A's broadcast is different from that of Disneyland's being rid specific also unlike Disneyland the queue never extended to a second level near the hippo pool a piece of a Down airplane can be seen along the shoreline this is the back half of the Lockheed model electric junr previously found at the Great movie Rider Disney's Hollywood the CR each variety of plant throughout the attraction was carefully selected by landscape architect Bill Evans to ensure that the foliage would be able to endure Florida's unique climate hot summers and relatively cool Winters the most difficult aspect of this was making sure these plants had the appropriate look and feel of traditional tropical plants in the equatorial jungle a jungle cruise themed restaurant the skipper canteen opened in December and expanded on the jungle navigation Co storyline making Dr a Albert falls into the founder of the company in with his granddaughter Alberta Falls taking charge of the navigation company and the jungle cruise in ness qer the Q of the jungle cruise is heavily themed with period artifacts tools gear photos and more it is intended to resemble a colonial Outpost where an exploration of the Jungle Rivers may be booked it is divided into four main sections which may be opened or closed in sequence to accommodate crowd fluctuation the queue was designed to wind about extensively so that guests may see all of the different artifacts in the queue the most notable section of the queue is the office of Albert aall attraction summary the skipper welcomes the boat full of guests down the tropical rivers of the World the ride starts out in the Amazon River where the passengers encounter butterflies with 1ft wingspans or as the skipper might say 12 in the boat then passes inspiration Falls which transitions into the Congo River in Africa the boat passes by a beach with a shop named boats and baits and bites and then passes an African rock python the boat then passes a camp that has been raided by Western G Ed by Western gorillas which transitions the cruise into the Nile River after encountering two African elephants the boat passes along the African velt Riders see numerous African animals including giraffes gazel vultures Wilder beasts and zebras watching a pride of lions feasting on a zebra beneath a rocky outcropping the boat then passes a lost Safari group that has been chased up a pole by an angry black rhinoceros and are now trapped and surrounded by spotted hyenas Albert Falls and heads past the remains of a plane crash the boat then encounters a pool of hippers about to charge the boat until the skipper scares them off the boat passes by another boat being raided of its supplies by chimpanzees and then proceeds into the mikong river after encountering mugger crocodiles they enter a temple that has been destroyed by an earthquake inside some king cobras monkeys spiders and a Bengal tiger can be found after they exit they come across an elephant bathing pool where numerous Indian elephants are relaxing in the water the cruise concludes after the boat narrowly avoids being sprayed by water from one of the elephants Tokyo Disneyland jump Cruise in Tokyo Disneyland shares a station complex with the Western River Railroad the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland attractions are very similar to each other with the exception of a few minor differences while the boats in the Magic Kingdom's attraction travel counterclockwise the boats at Tokyo Disneyland travel in a clockwise Direction in Tokyo Disneyland the station and surrounding area are themed to a more upscale African city as opposed to an isolated jungle Outpost this version shares a station building with the park steam train ride Western River Railroad the speed in Tokyo Disneyland are delivered in Japanese in E the ride was revamped and renamed Jungle Cruise Wildlife Experience this new version contains unique special effects and background music boats there are vehicles with a maximum of in operation at any given time all boat names except orinoka are alliterations Amazon Annie ganas Gerty iradi Irma quango Kate ah mikong Maiden Mikan Nile Nelly orinoko Ida R sharu Ruby sankuru sadii Sagal Sal ah vaval wamba Wanda zambesi Zelda retired boats Congo coni retired in a Hong Kong Disneyland jungle River Cruise at Hong Kong Disneyland fire God sets and a water bomb the shape of Hong Kong Disneyland's route is significantly different compared to the others and circumnavigates Tarzan's Treehouse a grand finale is included with a battle between angry Fire and Water Gods three languages are regularly available Cantonese English and Mandarin each language has a separate cue allowing visitors to experience the journey in their preferred language attraction summary the queue takes place in a small boat house of the Jungle navigation Co that is less elaborate than the boat houses found at the other Parks after winding through the queue guests board one of the boats and meet their Skipper who speaks either English Cantonese or Mandarin which are the official languages of Hong Kong the boats then depart and head down the river past Tarzan's treeh house where the skipper tells guests to wave goodbye to the guests traversing the treehouse for they will never see them again the boats then drift past an Indian Elephant and her calf playing in the water followed by another elephant showering in a waterfall a large bull Indian elephant emerges from the water squirting a plume of water at the boats with the guests narrowly avoiding the free shower the vessels then drift down a narrow stream past ancient Cambodian ruins which have been claimed by the jungle giant spiders and king cobras watch the boats as they move on up ahead several crocodiles are seen resting on a small Beach while a school of hungry piranha are jumping in the hopes of attacking the guests the boats Escape into Africa and pass a large Safari camp where several curious gorillas have discovered clothes guns hammocks and books as the trash in or the song from tarzen plays on a nearby Radio the African velt comes into view where Antelope giraffes zebras and African elephants stare at the boats the vessels then drift into a small pool where a PO of hippos try to tip the boat several feet ahead a rhino is seen chasing a safari group up a tree while several hyenas look on laughing skulls and cloth impaled on broken bamboo sticks appears as tribal drums and horns fill the air the skipper tells guest that they have entered head head henter country and must quietly sneak by the boats slowly pass through the main village where several upright Shields Rest In The Tall Grass a native notices the boats and all the shields now revealed to have Head Hunters behind them begin firing Spears and poison darts at the boats as they narrowly Escape into a rocky Canyon in the Rocky Canyon the boats sto near two unusual rock formations that look like faces revealed by the skipper to be the fire god and the water God who constantly feuded over their differences the fire God sets the river Ablaze while the water God vomits a water bomb causing the Flames to die and the whole Canyon to become a cloud of steam the boats escape the canyon and pass a baby elephant before returning to the boat house boats there are vehicles with a maximum of in operation at any given time Imon Annie KGO Queen wheelchair accessible gangis gal wheelchair accessible iradi imma Liang lady mikum Maiden Nile Nelly yangzi Ying Ying zambesi Zelda Albert a Albert AOL is a fictional jungle cruise boat captain and disc jockey for the Disney Broadcasting Company considered the voice of the Jungle he broadcasts everything from news to quizzes reminders weather Etc on the Dex Disney broadcast company he also served as a period disc jockey for the station filling the airwaves with music from the Depression era Albert AO was added in to the Jungle Cruise during a refurbishment according to one report standing in the jungle cruise queue was a somber Affair prior to the aforementioned rehab once guest crossed the threshold they were faced with a series of twists and turns that led past bare walls their fellow guests and occasional glimpses of the river there was no background music at that time either so if the queue was full it promised a fair amount of shuffling drudgery of course of course dl's Jungle Cruise queue is now closer to the full embodiment of how cool a ride's waiting space can be but Florida's upgrade did include Q music interspersed with radio commentary by Albert AWOL the voice of the Jungle a considerable array of visual enhancements were also made at that same time from a series of new destination-based W murals to the artifact laad in office Moab in the center of the cube Albert's broadcast is projected not just over the jungle cruise queuing area but over Adventure Land as a whole setting the time period period in Disneyland Albert is replaced by jungle radio various air personalities comment on the environment The Luminaries who are in the area ins sading references to the designers of the attraction Harper golf Bob Matty Winston hibler troll trath Ross Adventure films upon which jungle Cruis is based the music is a good deal slower in Pace and Tempo than the tracks used at Walt Disney World the music was previously linked with the outdoor speakers at the Temple of the Forbidden eye Indiana Jones Adventure however two separate tracks of material with similar tone and some songs now exist the jungle radio at Disneyland does connect the setting with the nearby Indiana Jones attraction and ties in announcements that reference Indiana Jones and the Temple in which the ride is set in E Donna giri leads Spanish conquistadors to South America to search for the lagras de Crystal tree whose flowers cure illness heal injuries lift curses and may save his infirmed daughter after many conquistadors die the puka Muna tribe heals the survivors with the trees flowers the tribal Chief refuses to reveal the tre's location so agar stabs him and burns the village the dying Chief curses The Conquistadors making them Immortal and unable to leave sight of the Amazon River without being dragged back by the jungle itself in London McGregor hton presents his sister Dr Lily Hon's tears of the Moon research to the Royal Society which bars women members the Halton hope to revolutionize both medicine and Aid the British war effort they request access to a recently acquired Arrowhead artifact that Lily believes can locate the tear of the Moon tree but are denied Lily steals the artifact narrowly evading Prince Jim who is equally intent on finding the tree for himself and Germany after arriving in Brazil Lily and McGregor hire Skipper Frank Wolf to guide them down the Amazon Frank who offers jungle Cruisers embellished with faked dangers initially declines citing the dangerous river and jungle but reconsiders upon seeing the arrowhead the trio departs after escaping join submarine Lily discovers Frank's tears of the Moon research but he insists he stopped searching long ago they are captured by cannibals that are actually the puka Muna tribe who work for Frank as part of his contrived Jungle Cruise Adventure Ang good Lily distrusts Frank and sets off to find the tree herself tribal Chief Trader Sam translates the symbols on the arrowhead revealing the tree's location and that it only blooms under a Blood Moon meanwhile Joachim locates the Conquistadors petrified inside a cave and partially revives them with Amazon water Agera agrees to bring joim the arrowhead in exchange for lifting the curse when he finds the flowers Jim diverts river water to flood the cave which rean M Agera and his conquistadors and infuses them with rainforest elements The Conquistadors attack the tribe and Agera stabs Frank through the heart Lily flees with the artifact chased by Conquest doors but the jungle vines pull them back to the river preventing her capture to the halton's amazement and Alive Frank soon reappears he reveals he is also a cursed Conquistador he helped search for the tree to save aga's daughter but sided with the tribe against aga's brutality after years of endless fighting Frank trapped his vengeful comrades in the cave away from the river petrifying them failing to find the tree Frank remained tied to the river becoming a tour guide and building a village Lily and Frank travel to the Luna rotak waterfall and discover a submerged Temple containing the tree meanwhile Jim has captured McGregor and forces him to reveal Lily's location Frank the Holton the Germans and the Conquistadors all converge at the tree discovering the arrowhead is a locket containing a red gem Lily inserts the two pieces into carvings in the bark of the tree briefly blooms under the blood moon as a fight ensues Lily recovers one flower the German soldiers drown joim is crushed by a Falling Rock and Frank crashes his boat into the temple to block the river petrifying himself and the rest of the Conquistadors to save Lily realizing her true feelings for Frank Lily sacrifices the flower to lift the curse and restore his mortality Frank decides to leave the Amazon to be with her the moon's last beam blooms a single flower which Lily takes for research returning to the Village Port Frank excels his business returning to Britain Lily becomes a full professor at the University of Cambridge and sends McGregor on her behalf to reject an invitation to join the Royal Society Lily and Frank then explore London together as she teaches him how to drive a car cast uh Dwayne Johnson stars as Frank Wolf Emily Blunt stars as Dr Lily hotton Dwayne Johnson as Frank Wolf DL flasco Lopez De Heredia a shrewd and cynical But ultimately Noble Steamboat sker who reluctantly agrees to guide two explorers on their quest for the mythical tree he eventually reveals his true name and identity as aira's adopted brother and one of the cursed conquistadors forever trapped by the Amazon River he is a trained cartographer who has spent centuries searching for the tree to break the curse that made him Immortal so he can die peacefully meanwhile he has built a town and a boat he christened laquila for his business under jungle navigation company while owning a number of tamed exotic cats as a pet each named proximad Emily Blunt as Dr Lily Horton an eccentric adventurous and virtuous botanist working in a male dominated field who hopes to find the tree in order to harness its power for modern medicine possessing an ancient Arrowhead and one of Frank's Old maps of the Amazon she proves she is resourceful and capable in martial arts and lockpicking skills despite the fact that she cannot swim until Frank helps her out with it at Luna Rota she wants to prove herself equal to her chauvinistic peers but gains some notoriety for wearing trousers Edgar Ramirez a air a Spanish conquistador who once sought the tree's power to save his ill daughter only to be cursed with immortality for his cruelty towards his Guardians temporarily freed by German explorers he sets out to take revenge on his adopted brother Frank for turning on him his partially decomposed body is now composed of an infestation of snakes and as such he possesses the ability to convert part or all of his body into snakes Jack whiteall as McGregor hton Lily's younger brother who works as her assistant he later confesses to Frank that the rest of their family disowned him after he was outed as being gay when he refused to marry a woman prompting Lily to hire him so he could support himself and he has been loyal to her ever since as a somewhat fish snob who aderes to proper etiquette and prefers wearing three-piece suits he seems ill suited to Jungle life but gradually develops into a more confident rugged Man by the end of the expan Jesse Playman as Prince Joachim a deranged and ambitious German Royal who finances and leads a military expan with mercenaries to claim the Tree of Life both to Aid Germany's war effort and achieve imort Al ity he receives aid from the cursed Conquest ad doors after he frees them for his own interest and communicates with them through their bees and snakes Paul gamti as nilo nemolato the Harbor Master at nilo's River Adventure PTO elho where Frank Moors his boat neilo owns a maluan coatu named Rosita he is also a business rival and confiscates Frank's boat engine when Frank is unable to repay him a loan with Rosita constantly quoting Frank owes me money this leads Frank to wreck nilo's prize boats in return additionally Veronica Falon plays Trader Sam the fimale chief of the puka Muna trebin who is a longtime friend of Franks and knows about the curse the puka Muna tribe has a centuries long history of guarding the tree but Sam does not know the exact location herself until Lily shows her the arrowed Dan Daren Carter Danny rovera and quim Gutierrez player Gear's fellow conquistadors as respectively Gonzalo whose partially decomposed body is composed by and Vines is composed of tree parts and Vines is Sancho whose is composed of Honeycombs and the colonies of honey bees that ride on him and melker whose is composed of mud and the poison D frogs that ride on him the latter two conquistadors have the ability to dissolve into their constituent parts to rapidly move through the jungle as well as maintain telepathic control of the creatures inhabiting their bodies Andy nman plays Sir James Hobs codington the Royal society's artifact Handler who briefly helps Prince joim while Rafal alad alandro plays zaku Frank's young assistant other characters include the chief of the puka Muna tribe in played by Pedro Lopez who cursed the Conquistador and his daughter played by suum Calderon who protects the artifact away from the jungle also stunt actor Ben jenin was on set for the motion capture of Proxima Frank's devoted pet Jaguar she is one of a series of exotic South American cats rescued and trained by Frank that were all given the same name out of fear and later affectionately McGregor nicknames her murder cat references to the ride Frank's puns are derived from the Skippers lines on the original theme park ride Lily's personality is inspired by Indiana Jones the boat is named after Mama killer the coatu whose real name is lover girl is named after the singing bird Rosita at Disneyland's Enchanted Ticky room the film has several elements referencing Dr Albert Falls a fictional character at Disneyland who has discovered swier Falls and has founded the jungle navigation company production early versions see also jungle cruise in December it was announced that jungle Cru would be developed for Manderville forms with a script by Josh Goldstein and John noville following the success of pirate of the Caribbean the film was announced to take place within the 20th century and was Loosely inspired by the theme park attraction of the same name which featured prominently in Disneyland's grand opening Inn in Alfred GFF and Miles Miller were in talks to write the film in February e it was announced that Tom Hanks and Tim Allen who had previously worked together in the Toy Story franchise would star in the long gestating film with a script to be written by Rogers H Shan pre-production Jo kollet sah director of Jungle Cruise in in August it was announced that Walt Disney Pictures was revamping the film adaptation to Star Dwayne Johnson the previous script originally written by Goldstein and novel would be Rewritten by John Raya and Glenn ficara with the intention to hearken back to its period Roots John Davis and John Fox signed in as producers Johnson who did a lot of research before getting into the role announced in April that he would co-produce the film under his seven bucks Productions and he expressed his interest in having Patty Jenkins Helm the project however in July Joan ketera was announced as the Director of the film in January Michael Green was reported to have Rewritten the script previously worked on by J D Payne and Patrick McCay also Emily Blunt signed on as Johnson wanted her to be his co-star blunt was paid between million for her involvement casting why Edgar Ramirez plays the role of a gear in March an open casting call was made for the other characters in the film including men and women of all ethnicities between ages 2 and children between years old in the same month Jack whiteall was cast as the brother of Blunt's character 6 months later it was reported that he would have a coming out scene in the film with Johnson this would be the second incidence of a gay character in a live-action Disney film the first being Lee Fu portrayed by Josh Gad In the adaptation of Beauty and the Beast there was some backlash over the report with some persons online expressing anger over a straight man being cast as a camp gay character in April Edgar Ramirez and Jesse Playman were added to the cast as villains with the form of being a man with a concador background in May Paul jamati was cast to portray a crusty Harbor Master in June Kim Gutierrez joined the cast to portray one of the villains in July it was announced that Veronica Falcon dannie riera and Andy nyman had joined the cast before Falcon was cast as Trader Sam a role inspired by a Mala character at the theme park it was discussed whether the role would be a male or a female character in the film filming the first span of the shoot began on May e in Hawaii where a port town was set up at kapaya Reservoir Kawaii near wayua Falls the set took 1 month to scout 2 months to design and 4 months to build dress and Landscape while being challenged by the flood Reigns other shoot locations include the town of Lee hu the Kawai Plantation Railway and hulia stream after 7 weeks the Shute then moved for a major course at blackall Studios Atlanta where a pool was set up in a large tank like the river as well as the jungle in it some scenes were also filmed at the Oxford College of Emery University two boats of length feet were built for easy Logistics in filming at both the locations revealed production designer Gene Vincent puos Paco Delgado said that while some of the suits are original from the 20th century the costumes for the main characters and the tribals were specially made for the film for which he researched the cultures of different tribes in the Amazon he said that Amelia aart was the inspiration for Blunt's costume Joel harow did make up for background characters to detail their appearance whether with a sunburn or insect bite also he made tattoo designs for tribal characters tanoai Reed and Miles humphus were Johnson's stunned doubles while Lauren Shaw was blunts the film cinematographer fio Martinez labiano revealed that the blue screen technology was used magenta tinted lights were used for a sequence of the tree he also wanted to show colorful London in the summer unlike many other films which depict London in winter when it's foggy and its blue arax plus cameras were used with specially designed Panavision CS series anamorphic lenses to shoot the underwater sequence a puzzle set was built in the second tank and then it was filled with water underwater cinematographer Ian Brook said that it took about 2 weeks to shoot simult simultaneously while the main cast was also busy shooting in the first tank so the stunt doubles had to be present there too he said that while Johnson was a strong swimmer blunt showed no fear despite being a novice in acting underwater in any case the water tank had emergency exits for her to the right and the left of the camera the set had to be pulled out of the water by a crane so he handheld the camera throughout filming wrapped on September with about days of principal photography a few re-shoot took place before June which took 3 weeks in Atlanta Johnson shared that the film pays homage to the African queen Romancing the Stone and Indiana Jones post- production Ethan vaner Rin and Eric Adel served as the sound designers while Joel Negron served as the film or with neg industrial Light and Magic Rodeo effects Rising Sun pictures and waight to digital providing the visual effects along Ong with the turd floor it took about a year in the post- production stage but was shut down in March due to the pandemic however it resumed in the summer and was completed in September the color of the Amazon River is very distinctive the water had to appear brown but not dirty to reflect its organic nature we also produced more than varieties of trees and distributed them in a procedural way across the landscape in a manner consistent with how they occur in real life our widest shot includes more than million trees bushes and other species more malus sanus vfix supervisor at risp after filming and before the post- production phase the teams were sent to the Amazon rainforest Brazil and Costa Rica Forest where they recorded the actual surroundings including pristine wildlife and hundreds of species of exotic birds so the background effects Library can be created for the BR using different types of microphones including ambisonic and parabolic two Alexa minus a drone and several cameras were used for the reference photography and footage which took about 3 weeks the Port Town the water and the jungle all were built on a limited scale and were extended through Ki to create backgrounds plate shots were also captured at the Colorado River these were used to animate the turbulent and erated water so the boat can be animated running at K slash on the river as its journey is seen in the film The D team made such effects like light reflecting off the water bugs flying around and duw glistening on leaves so the film weather looks humid in the summer the submarine was also digitally extended after it was shot in a tank to visualize the explosions by torpedo Rubber and wooden structures were used the big trick with that was the art direct ability of the boat the speed of which he went through the Rapids and what kind of splashes it made I think with a sequence like that it's so heavily buried in physics and if you start to try and cheat those physics which is what happens a lot of the time then the simulation stuff all goes right out the window and it breaks everything n Luke Miller Vex supervisor at waa digital to portray the character of Proxima a stunt actor in a Jaguar morph suit as well as a stuffed toy were on set to it for the film a collection of plates from Big Cats was used with most references taken from a female jaguar in San Diego Zoo before its Dem modeling and sculpting with details like a mark on her forehead a folded over ear and the muscle and skin system other animals were also observed to create its reaction to interactions a pet cat also made an appearance as baby Proxima in sequences of the pink river dolphins each one was animated separately to build its own character while the Piranhas were also created with ski to animate the Conquistadors each character was built with different body parts to make it not completely human materials were gathered to study the actual movements of the snakes for the animation and the character was made Serpentine with sounds of the snake recorded from pressurized air releases the frogs were recorded from Costa Rica forest for the mud guy while honeycomb dripping sound was used for the Beehive guy the sounds of wood stress were used for the tree guy whose character was completely animated except for some of his only facial expressions initially there were ideas to explore more of the Conquistadors with different characteristics but these were settled on four only the scene for the tree of life was animated after taking inspiration from Banyan trees bbobs anle wat and cor native South American trees to give it an ancient look the branches were made in higher resolution to keep the tree very organic and virgin on naled the tree growth and petal variations were observed and lighting balance was considered in order to animate the exposing and reverting Luminosity of the petals after merging different shots the sequence also contains fully digital characters most of the environmental surroundings and water elements were built and animated on Houdini while the greenery was developed on speed Tree Music main article Jungle Cruise soundtrack James Newton Howard composed the score of jungle Cru and Metallica also collaborated for an instrumental version of one of their tracks in January it was announced that James Newton Howard joined the production as the film score composer by August it was revealed that Metallica collaborated with Howard on an instrumental version of the song Nothing Else Matters for the film according to the band's drummer lar allrich Metallica worked on on the film after Walt Disney Pictures president sha Bailey felt like jungle Cru was the right fit for a collaboration between Disney and Metallica Bailey had been always looking for the right match where there was a way that Metallica could contribute to some Disney project the band members recorded their parts from their individual Studios due to the coover pandemic the score was recorded in February by a person Orchestra with vocals provided by members from the Los Angeles Master Corral in order to add a regional flavor Howard Incorporated pan pipes and Brazilian percussion instruments frequent Metallica collabor at Greg fiddleman served as associate producer and engineer the soundtrack album was released on July e by Walt Disney records release theatrical and streaming Jungle Cruise had its World premiere at Disneyland Resort in Anaheim California on July it was released in the United States on July e simultaneously in theaters and on Disney plus with Premier access for us saw it had a special screening on July by D at El Capitan theater initially it was slated for October before being moved to July e and was postponed due to the covid pandemic in May Disney announced that the film would be released simultaneously in theaters and on Disney plus with Premier access due to the continued closure of theard markill like Brazil and Europe as in Mark as the SARS kovi Delta variant surged this is the last Disney plus Premier access release to date with Disney mostly instituting a day exclusive theatrical window before coming to stream it was also released in India on September and in China on November a home media J Le Cruise had a digital release on August and it was released via K Blu-ray and DVD on November this includes minutes of deleted scenes and bonus featurettes it debuted at top the N vide SK first allet ranking first in both the overall disc sales and Blu-ray sales percent of the sales came from Blu-ray including pent from K Blu-ray and percent from traditional Blu-ray the following week it was displaced to the second position by F du to the discounts offered around Black Friday while ranking first on Red Box rental charts the third week saw it falling to the third rank in overall disc sales while retaining its position on the Red Box rental charts reception PV viewership in its opening weekend Disney reported the film made million from worldwide Disney plus Premier sales with samb TV saying million of it came from zuu ush holds by the end of its first days the viewership had grown to million households for an estimated revenue of million D after its release on dis the film topped red Box's digital chart for two consecutive weeks in the third week it dropped to the fourth rank in January Tech firm Mami reported that Jungle Cruise was the 10th most pirated film of box office jungle crws gross to million in the United States and Canada and million in other territories for a worldwide total of Y million with an estimated combined production and promotional cost of million the film needed to gross around million worldwide in order to break even in other territories the film debuted at million from markets below its million projections it's its largest markets were the UK D million France million and South Korea million in its second weekend the film made sa million from markets with the top running totals being from the UK villian Russia Russia million France million million Japan million million million and Saudi Arabia million in China earned million during its debut weekend ranking fifth on the box office charts this was considered a disappointing opening by media outlets in the following weekend it fell to the seventh rank critical response on the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes percent of critics reviews are positive with an average rating of Dev where lash repites consensus reads its craft isn't quite as sturdy as some of the classic Adventures indebted to but jungle cruise remains a fun family-friendly Voyage Metacritic which uses a weighted average assigned the film a score of out of based on critics indicating mixed or average reviews audiences pulled by Cinema score gave the film an average grade of eight on an A+ to f scale while post Trak reported that percent of audience members gave it a positive score with prent saying they would definitely recommend it writing for variety Owen gleberman praised Johnson and blunts chemistry and said that the film is a little good old fashioned and it pelts the audience with entertainment in such a lively yet bumptious way that at times you may wish you were wearing protective jar Corey Coleman and Martin Thomas of Double Toasted both gave it a relatively positive review even going so far as to predict that other critics would negatively critique it simply because of its premise however they were both split on the portrayal of Jack White Hall's character while Thomas found it as a positive step forward for LGBT characters Coleman found it somewhat campy and unnecessary Rolling Stone reviewer David fear gave the film pum stars and called him stars and called it an attempt to sell the Magic Kingdom's vintage boat ride as the next big Endless Summer movie thing adding that blunts tart apple crisp of a comic performance pairs nicely with Johnson's B beef cake served with a side of ham in the New York Times Janette catulus wrote a negative review that the film is a soggy mess with a mostly unintelligible plot adding that it exhibits a blatantly foe exoticism that feels as flat as the forced frisen between its two leads reviewer Peter Travis commented that made up of spare parts from better movies and at over 2 hours in length the film will be tough on short attention spans however he added that it is better than Haunted Mansion and Tomorrowland other films based on Disney rides squel after the release weekend of jungle Cru Dwayne Johnson announced that discussions were underway with Walt Disney pictures for a sequel which could answer many questions left behind in the film on August e it was reported that Johnson and blunt were set to reprise their roles in the sequel Michael Green is developing the script with Joan kitera expected to return as the Director while John Davis John Fox Bo Flynn Johnson Denny Garcia and hyam Garcia returned to produce with Scott Sheldon returning as executive producer Johnson later confirmed a sequel was in development on that same day via a video posted on his official Instagram account Garcia shared that Johnson and blund both have many ideas to explore more of their characters in the sequel in October producer B Flynn confirmed that work on the script is ongoing while also stating that Johnson and blunt are more determined to make sure that a sequel happens though they could not State when it will be made Jungle Cruise formerly named Jungle river cruise is a riverbat amusement ride located in the adventur Land Theme section at various Disney theme parks worldwide the attraction is a simulated riverboat cruise that travels along a Waterway using a concealed guidance system through areas with Asian African and South American themes a live Disney cast member acts as a tour guide and boat Skipper that Loosely follows a rehear script providing passengers with a comedic narrative the first installation of the ride was featured at Disneyland for its grand opening in a variety of changes were made over the years including enhanced audio effects updates to the story line and the remov of culturally sensitive material the installation at Hong Kong Disneyland features a significantly different storyline from the other parks and provides guests with three different language options each with its own line qu following years of planning and delays a film adaptation of the ride was released in the United States on July e inspiration and design the project was planned by Disney to incorporate a jungle themed ride into the list of attractions featured at Disneyland's grand opening in sources of inspiration include a documentary called the African Lion from the true Loff Adventures film series as well as the adventure Fick and the African queen Disney imagineer Harper goof referenced the African queen frequently in his ideas and Drew inspiration from the steamer depicted in the film for the ride vehicle design Bill Evans was the imagineer responsible for landscaping Disneyland and most of Walt Disney World during the development of jungle cruise he was given the somewhat complicated task of creating a realistic jungle on a limited budget in addition to importing actual tropical plants he Incorporated character plants which have an exotic appearance despite not being exotic he had used a well-known trick of uprooting local orange trees and replanting them upside down growing vines on the exposed roots the rid's water Clarity known as turbidity is controlled in a manner that obscures the boat's guidance system and other undesirable items like perches and mechanized platforms of the bathing audio animatronic elephants and hippos the Waterway was originally dyed brown but was later changed to other colors first to a green Hue and later to a bluish green when water returns to the attraction it travels through a inches me diameter underground pipe before it can be utilized again the Waterway depth is approximately feet yes me and circulates Southward from the Northern end of frontierland rivers of America to fantas land the path of the ride takes Riders past Frontier land's entrance and into Adventure Land where it drifts alongside the Tikki room before re-entering Jungle Cruise near the cruise near the rid ex exit the efo foot me Waterway was later shortened and rerouted in citation needed although goof and Evans can be cred with the creation and initial design of the ride animat Mark Davis recognized for his work on venerable attractions such as the Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean added his own style in later versions the Indian elephant bathing pool and rhinoceros chasing explorers up a pole were among his contributions Disneyland the attraction was in the opening day roster of the park and has remained open and largely unchanged in theme and story since then the original plan was to use real animals but these plans were abandoned once Disney realized that the animals would likely sleep during the day aside from alterations and maintenance changes four completely new show scenes have been added to date in the river channel was rerouted to make way for the Q buildings and entrance Courtyard of the Indiana Jones Adventure while the ride's comedic Spiel is filled with intentionally bad puns by the skipper the original intent of the ride was to provide a realistic believable Voyage Through the world's jungles the original Spiel was similar to the narration of a nature documentary citation needed attraction summary the Q and station are themed as the headquarters and Boat House of the Jungle navigation company a River Trading Company located in a British colony has shown by the Union Jack flying above the boat house Circa the queuing area is cluttered with appropriate props such as pinned insects an old radio on top of a bookshelf an old typewriter and a chess board with miniature animals and decorated shotgun shells replacing the pieces the extended Q wins upstairs and then downstairs again big band music from the a Cs and S plays overhead punctuated by jungle themed news bulletins helping to reinforce the setting and threading together the show scenes and boat once aboard the boats guests are introduced to their Skipper and they head into the jungle allegedly never to return the first Rivers simulated are the iradi and mikong rivers representing tropical southeast Asia the boats sail through a dense rainforest inhabited by large butterflies and a pair of tukens before passing by the Temple of the Forbidden eye and a shrine of a cobra beholding a crystal ball passengers then Glide precariously under the first of a pair of stone archers severely damaged by an earthquake centuries ago these are part of the ruins of an ancient Cambodian City where a crumbling Temple is one of the few things which have managed to avoid tumbling into the river here passengers see an indines tiger giant spiders king cobras and mugger crocodiles passing a statue of a bowing elephant the boats pass under the second Arch and enter the sacred Indian elephant bathing pool here a large herd of Indian elephants Frolic and squirt water at the passing vessels the theme moves to the rivers of Africa here Riders see a family of babon and a safari camp that has been overrun by gorillas the boats narrowly avoid the dramatic waterfall schweiter Falls which Riders are told is named after doctor Albert Falls and turned down Africa's Nile River where they pass between two African elephants and large termit Mounds a tableau of the African velt follows showing giraffes wilderbeast zebras vultures and gazel then a pride of lions feasting on a zebra beneath a rocky outcropping beyond the Lion's Den an angry black rhinoceros has chased a safari party up a tree much to the amusement of spotted hyenas the skipper then then Pilots the boat into the Congo River spotting the wreckage of a boat that has sunk while also disturbing a pod of hippos that signal their intent to attack the boat drums and chanting are heard as the boats enter through the Congo and end up in a place called Head Hunter country guests can spot another boat being taken over by chimpanzees as they raid the boat of its supplies and accessories the boats then pass by more chimpanzees who have raided the box of butterflies the boats now pass behind schweiter Falls referred to as the backside of water which they call the eighth one of the world to enter the Amazon River skeletal animal remains and warning signs featuring pictures of daggertooth to fish for war on the next show scene where the boats encounter a swarm of Leaping piranha the guests then pass a couple of water buffalo and a boa constrictor the boats then finally pass by a former lost and found stand which has been transformed by Trader Sam to become Trader Sam's Gift Shop boats there are vehicles with a maximum of in operation at any given time with guests and training vehicle the boats in were painted as clean idealized replicas but have since been given a more realistic theming reflecting the grunge and wear of actual watercraft due to the addition of Indiana Jones adventure and its rugged finin names in use Amazon Bell renamed Jingle Bell during Christmas Congo Queen renamed Congo carola then candy cane queen during Christmas gangas gal Reena gangas Gallen then gingerbread gal during Christmas Hondo hatti renowned Hondo Holly then Hanukah hati during Christmas iradi woman renam and iradi snow woman during Christmas kissimi Kate renowned Yu kissimi then kissimi under the Mr toe during Christmas Nile princess wheelchair accessible vehicle renamed Nile Nutcracker then Noel Nelly during Christmas orinoko adventurous renamed orinoko ornament then nevad aventures during Christmas suani lady renamed suani Sly then sugar plum lady during Christmas UK kayali unaa wheelchair accessible vehicle renamed you Cay Ali eggnog then Evergreen Uno during Christmas yanga Lotus renowned utide Lotus during Christmas Zambezi Miss renowned peppermint Miss during Christmas names dick commissioned in in magdalina Maiden Mong Maiden Magic Kingdom the Walt Disney World jungle cruise is set as a Depression era British outpost on the Amazon River operated by the fictional company the jungle navigation Co whose advertisement poster is painted on the wall near the exit of the attraction Albert aul's broadcast is different from that of Disneylands being rid specific also unlike Disneyland the que never extended to a second level near the hippo pool a piece of a downed airplane can be seen along the shoreline this is the back half of the Lockheed model Electra junr previously found out the great movie Rider Disney's Hollywood the pre each variety of plant throughout the attraction was carefully selected by landscape architect Bill Evans to ensure that the foliage would be able to endure Florida's unique climate hot summers and relatively cool Winters the most difficult aspect of this was was making sure these plants had the appropriate look and feel of traditional tropical plants in the equatorial jungle a jungle cruise themed restaurant the skipper canteen opened in December and expanded on the jungle navigation Co storyline making Dr R Albert falls into the founder of the company in with his granddaughter Alberta Falls taking charge of the navigation company and the jungle cruise in the Zess qer the Q of the jungle cruise is heavily themed with period artifacts tools gear photos and more it is intended to resemble a Outpost where an exploration of the Jungle Rivers may be booked it is divided into four main sections which may be opened or closed in sequence to accommodate crowd fluctuation the queue was designed to wind about extensively so that guests may see all of the different artifacts in the queue the most notable section of the queue is the office of Albert AAL attraction summary the skipper welcomes the boat full of guests down the tropical rivers of the World the ride starts out in the Amazon River where the passengers encounter butterflies with one foot wingspans or as the skipper might say 12 in the boat then passes inspiration Falls which transitions into the Congo River in Africa the boat passes by a beach with a shot named boats and baits and bites and then passes an African rock python the boat then passes a camp that has been raided by Western gaded by Western gorillas which transitions the cruise into the Nile River after encountering two African elephants the boat passes along the African velt Riders see numerous African animals including giraffes gazel vultures Wilder beasts and zebras watching a pride of lions feasting on a zebra beneath a the rocky outcropping the boat then passes a lost Safari group that has been chased up a pole by an angry black rhinoceros and are now trapped and surrounded by spotted henus Albert Falls and heads past the remains of a plane crash the boat then encounters a pool of hippers about to charge the boat until the skipper scares them off the boat passes by another boat being raided of its supplies by chimpanzees and then proceeds into the Mong River after encountering mugger crocodiles they enter a temple that has been destroyed by an earthquake inside some king cobras monkeys spiders and a Bengal tiger can be found after they exit they come across an elephant bathing pool where numerous Indian elephants are relaxing in the water the cruise concludes after the boat narrowly avoids being sprayed by water from one of the elephants Tokyo Disneyland jungle cruise in Tokyo Disneyland shares a station complex with the Western River Railroad the Magic Kingdom and Tokyo Disneyland attractions are very similar to each other with the exception of a few minor differences while the boats in the Magic Kingdom's attraction travel counterclockwise the boats at Tokyo Disneyland travel in a clockwise Direction in Tokyo Disneyland the station and surrounding area are themed to a more upscale African city as opposed to an isolated jungle Outpost this version shares a station building with the park steam train ride Western River Railroad the spiels in Tokyo Disneyland are delivered in Japanese in E the ride was revamped and renamed Jungle Cruise Wildlife Experience this new version contains unique special effects and background music boats there are vehicles with a maximum of in operation at any given time all boat names except orinoka are alliterations Amazon Annie ganas Gerty iri Irma quango Kate ah mikong Maiden Miken Nile Nelly orinoko Ida raru Ruby sankuru sadii Sagal Sal ah vaval W wand Zambezi Zelda retired boats cono coni retired in a Hong Kong Disneyland jungle River Cruise at Hong Kong Disneyland fire God sets and a water bomb the shape of Hong Kong Disneyland's route is significantly different compared to the others and circumnavigates Tarzan's Treehouse a grand finale is included with a battle between angry Fire and Water Gods three languages are regularly available Cantonese English and Mandarin each language has a separate cue allowing visitors to experience the journey in their preferred language attraction summary the queue takes place in a Small Boat House of the Jungle navigation Co that is less elaborate than the boat houses found at the other Parks after winding through the queue guests board one of the boats and meet their Skipper who speaks either English Cantonese or Mandarin which are the official languages of Hong Kong the boats then depart and head down the river past Tarzan's Treehouse where the skipper tells guests to wave goodbye to the guests traversing the treehouse for they will never see them again the boats then drift past an Indian Elephant and her Cal playing in the water followed by another elephant showering in a waterfall a large bull Indian elephant emerges from the water squirting a plume of water at the boats with the guests narrowly avoiding the free shower the vessels then drift down a narrow stream past ancient Cambodian ruins which have been claimed by the jungle giant spiders and king cobras watch the boats as they move on up ahead several crocodiles are seen resting on a small Beach while a school of hungry piranha are jumping in the hopes of attacking the guests the boats Escape into Africa and pass a large Safari camp where several curious gorillas have discovered clothes guns hammocks and books as the trash or the song from tarzen plays on a nearby Radio the African velt comes into view where Antelope giraffes zebras and African elephants stare at the boats the vessels then drift into a small pool where a pot of hippos try to tip the boat several feet ahead a rhino is seen chasing a safari group up a tree while several hyenas look on laughing skulls and cloth impaled on broken bamboo sticks appears as tribal drums and horns fill the air the skipper tells guest that they have entered head henter country and must quietly sneak by the boats slowly pass through the main village where several upright Shields rest in the tall grass and Native notices the boats and all the shields now revealed to have Head Hunters behind them begin firing Spears and poison darts at the boats as they narrowly escape into a rocky Canyon in the Rocky Canyon the boats sto near two unusual rock formations that look like faces revealed by the skipper to be the fire god and the water God who constantly Feud over their differences the fire God sets the river Ablaze while the water God vomits a water bomb causing the Flames to die and the whole Canyon to become a cloud of steam the boats escape the canyon and pass a baby elephant before returning to the boat house boats there are vehicles with a maximum of in operation at any given time emazon Annie Congo Queen wheelchair accessible gangis gal wheelchair accessible iradi imma Liang lady mikum Maiden Nile Nelly yangzi Ying Ying Zambezi Zelda Albert AAL Albert AAL is a fictional jungle cruise boat captain and disc jockey for the Disney Broadcasting Company considered the voice of the Jungle he broadcasts everything from news to quizzes reminders weather Etc on the Dex Disney broadcast company he also served as a period disc jockey for the station filling the airwaves with music from the Depression era Albert aul was added in to the Jungle Cruise during a refurbishment according to one report standing in the jungle cruise queue was a somber Affair prior to the aform mentioned rehab once guests crossed the threshold they were faced with a series of twists and turns that led past bare walls their fellow guests and occasional glimpses of the river there was no background music at that time either so if the queue was full it promised a fair amount of shuffling drudgery of course dl's Jungle Cruise Q is now closer to the full embodiment of how cool a ride's waiting space can be but Florida's upgrade did include Q music interspersed with radio commentary by Albert awall the voice of the Jungle a considerable array of visual enhancements were also made at that same time from a series of new destination based wall murals to the artifact laid in office mulab in the center of the queue Albert's broadcast is projected not just over the jungle cruise queuing area but over Adventure Land as a whole setting the time period in Disneyland Albert is replaced by jungle radio various air personalities comment on the environment The Luminaries who are in the area ining references to the designers of the attraction Harper goof Bob Matty Winston hibler trol trath Ross Advent films upon which jungle cruise is based the music is a good deal slower in Pace and Tempo than the tracks used at Walt Disney World the music was previously linked with the outdoor speakers at the Temple of the Forbidden I in Diana Jones Adventure however two separate tracks of material with similar tone and some songs now exist the jungle radio at Disneyland does connect the setting with the nearby Indiana Jones attraction and ties in announcements that reference Indiana Jones and the Temple in which the ride is set