Coco, the curious monkey
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Coco, the curious monkey |
| Original title | Curious George |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2006 |
| length | 88 minutes |
| Age rating |
FSK 0 JMK 0 |
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| Director | Matthew O'Callaghan |
| script | Ken Kaufmann |
| production |
Ron Howard , David Kirschner , Jon Shapiro |
| music |
Heitor Pereira , Jack Johnson |
| cut | Julie Rogers |
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Coco the Curious Monkey (Original title: Curious George ) is an American cartoon from 2006 .
action
The man in the yellow hat named Ted Shakleford works as a museum guide in a natural history museum that is clearly lacking in visitors. The museum director's son wants to convert the museum into a parking garage, but Ted aims to get a large mystical statue from Africa, the "Shrine of Zagawa", which according to museum director Bloomsberry should attract a lot of people. Unfortunately for him, the statue turns out to be tiny. A little lonely monkey, which was given the name Coco only a short time later, is accidentally taken home by Ted. At this point, an action-packed, fun-filled journey through the wonders of the big city begins with friendship as your destination.
With Coco's help, Ted finds out that the small statue, when exposed to sunlight, creates a treasure map that actually leads to the large "Shrine of Zagawa". The shrine is found, exhibited in the museum and attracts many new visitors. Coco stays with Ted.
background
The film was originally intended as a mix between real and cartoon, until the developers decided on pure animation. In 2001 Pixar director Brad Bird completed a first script.
Director Matthew O'Callaghan was particularly pleased with Dick Van Dyke's dubbing : “I was amazed to learn that [Dick Van Dyke] had never dubbed a cartoon character before. I was blown away, so I said "great" because as a director you want interesting, fresh people on the cast who have never had any previous experience in the genre - at least that's what I want. "
The project was at Imagine Entertainment since probably 1992 in development hell .
The film was released in 2,566 theaters on February 10, 2006 and grossed $ 14,703,405 on the first weekend . The film grossed $ 58.3 million in the United States and $ 11.4 million overseas (totaling $ 69.8), which turned out to be an unexpected hit.
Due to the unexpected success, a television series and a sequel were produced.
synchronization
Synchronization work took place in the Berlin dubbing company Berliner Synchron GmbH Wenzel Lüdecke . Dialog book and -regie led Sven Hasper .
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Ted | Will Ferrell | Stefan Staudinger |
| Mr. Bloomsberry | Dick Van Dyke | Hans Teuscher |
| Bloomsberry Jr. | David Cross | Stefan Krause |
| Maggie | Drew Barrymore | Nana Spier |
| Clovis | Eugene Levy | Roland Hemmo |
| Edu | Michael Chinyamurindi | Tobias Kluckert |
| Ivan | Ed O'Ross | Tilo Schmitz |
| Ms. Plushbottom | Joan Plowright | Denise Gorzelanny |
Reviews
The film received mostly positive reviews and received a 69% positive rating from film review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes .
“More than ten years after the first announcement by Universal and Imagine, [...] the adventures of the chimpanzee Coco, who is originally called George, and its helpless owner have now found their way onto the screen as a wonderfully realized, classic 2D cartoon. "
Soundtrack
The soundtrack for the film includes songs by Jack Johnson and Sally Williams. The album made it to number 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart in the first weekend after its release .
Trivia
On May 29, 2016, instead of Coco, the film Halloween - The Night of Horror was shown in a repeat in the morning children's program on ZDF until the broadcaster noticed.
Individual evidence
- ^ Certificate of release for Coco, the curious monkey . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , April 2006 (PDF; test number: 105 937 K).
- ^ Age rating for Coco, the curious monkey . Youth Media Commission .
- ↑ Coco, the curious monkey. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 3, 2019 .
- ↑ Rating by Rotten Tomatoes
- ↑ Film review at Kino.de
- ↑ dpa: ZDF broadcasts horror film instead of "Coco, the curious monkey", Spiegel-Online, (last call: March 25, 2017)
Web links
- Curious Monkey in theInternet Movie Database(English)