Jungledyret Hugo (en danés, "Hugo the Jungle Animal") es una franquicia de medios danesa creada por Flemming Quist Møller basada en una canción de cuna que escribió para su hijo, [1] y que luego se convirtió en un largometraje animado, producido en A. . Película . La franquicia actualmente consta de doslargometrajes tradicionalmente animados , una serie de televisión animada , libros, un álbum de música y una tercera película animada en CGI .
Las dos primeras películas fueron traducidas, editadas y lanzadas en los Estados Unidos en un solo DVD en 1998 por Miramax Family . La primera película se estrenó como Go Hugo Go y la segunda película se estrenó como Hugo the Movie Star . [2] La tercera película se lanzó en DVD de la región 1 el 12 de agosto de 2014 con el título "Amazon Jack". [3] En 1995 también se creó y se lanzó en Escandinavia un juego de plataformas de desplazamiento lateral en CD-ROM para PC basado en la primera película . [4]
En la serie Jungledyret , muchos animales hablan entre sí, pero los humanos no pueden entenderlos.
Hugo es el único miembro superviviente conocido de la especie Hugus primiticus, parecida al koala . Es bípedo , aunque puede correr de forma extrañamente cuadrúpedo para ganar velocidad. Puede utilizar herramientas como palancas y patinetas, y puede burlar a la gran mayoría de los seres humanos y otros animales, como serpientes, gatos, cerdos, ardillas e incluso zorros. Se destaca por su personalidad astuta, su egoísmo infantil, su glotonería y su presunción. Come principalmente frutas y le encantan los plátanos (aunque es omnívoro, ya que no rehuye comer albóndigas). Su depredador más temido de todos es, por supuesto, la humanidad (con la excepción de Meatball Charlie).
Hugo fue interpretado por Jesper Klein en el lanzamiento original danés, su voz cantante fue proporcionada por Mek Pek y Bronson Pinchot en el doblaje de Miramax.
Rita es una joven zorra roja que se hace amiga de Hugo en las calles de Copenhague. Es amable, astuta, valiente y tiene bastante sentido común, a diferencia de Hugo, que es bastante impulsivo. Vivía con su madre, sus dos hermanos pequeños y una hermana pequeña en una guarida cerca de unas vías de tren, hasta la segunda película, donde Hugo, que escapaba de Cupmann y sus secuaces, la arrastra a dar un paseo. Su padre nunca es mencionado. En la primera película se insinúa un romance entre Hugo y Rita y luego se hace sexualmente sugerente en la segunda, pero la serie animada y la tercera película luego minimizaron este elemento hasta el punto de que solo se mencionó en unas pocas ocasiones.
Rita fue interpretada por Kaya Brüel en danés y Holly Gauthier-Frankel en el doblaje de Miramax.
Charlie es el cocinero a bordo del carguero que transporta a Hugo a Copenhague. Encuentra a Hugo, que se ha escapado de la bodega de carga, y al final del viaje lo dona al zoológico de la ciudad . Aparece hacia el final de la primera película y no está presente en la segunda. En la serie animada, aparece una vez más, ayudando a Hugo y Rita en numerosas ocasiones, y en la tercera película, hace varias apariciones, casi saliendo como parte del elenco de personajes principales. Hugo menciona que Meatball Charlie es probablemente su único amigo "humano" y el de Rita.
En la producción danesa original, Meatball Charlie se llama Dellekaj (una mezcla de "Delle", que en la jerga significa " frikadelle ", una especie de albóndiga, y "Kaj", que es un nombre danés común) y fue interpretado por Jesper Klein, quien también da voz. Hugo y Marcel Jeannin en el doblaje de Miramax.
Conrad posee un estudio de cine en Copenhague y sueña con ganar mucho dinero. Está moralmente arruinado y está dispuesto a talar y quemar la jungla para capturar a Hugo. Su primera relación comenzó con Izabella Dehavalot, pero él rechazó sus deseos y la abandonó cuando Hugo logra escapar de Copenhague en la primera película. Su segunda relación es con Barbie Turner, pero en cambio, ella lo rechaza, ya que no quería que lastimara a Hugo. Flemming Quist Møller le expresa en danés y Mark Camacho en el doblaje de Miramax.
Generalissimo Maximillion Maximus, better known as General Maximus, is one of the series' most recurrent major antagonists. He is the ruler of the recently-founded fictional nation Junglandia – the country from where Hugo originates. The symbol of Junglandia is General Maximus' coat of arms, which depicts the same species as Hugo and, since Hugo is the rarest animal in the world, General Maximus is always seeking Hugo, both to have him as a symbol of the nation and in order to gain a world-famous reputation. He has a low moral set, promising a great reward to the ones who gets Hugo, but he will not always keep his promises, either cheating them, or will later break his promises, and displays a ruthless determination in order to capture him.
Loongkoffer is an animal psychologist hired by Conrad in Jungledyret 2 to tame Hugo, but he fails in his endeavor. In Jungledyret 3, he has turned over a new leaf and wishes to keep Hugo safe. He is disgusted by Professor Strix's idea of cloning Hugo, fearing that Hugo would die in the experiments. He was voiced by Arthur Grosser in the Miramax dub. In Danish TV series and third film, his name is Dr. Donald Sturmdrang in original version.
Professor Strix is a mad scientist who appears in the last two episodes of the animated series. He is one of two scientists who believe Hugo is an unknown arctic animal. He runs a professional research facility. In the third film, he makes a comeback and tries to eradicate Hugo, make multiple copies of Hugo and sell them all around the world. He is heartless, as he is willing to kill Hugo in an effort to make clones of him. In TV series and third film, his name is Strict.
A villainous black panther who appears in the TV series and third film.
He is the bodyguard of General Maximus from TV series and third film.
Izabella is a black-haired starlet with a sharp figure. She is also the ex-wife of Conrad Cupmann. Her goal is to gain notoriety through the exploitation of an animal co-star; she cites several fictional actors, and then her "good friend Michael" and his chimp. Upon the discovery of Hugo, Izabella brightens at the idea of using him as her co-star and stops at nothing to capture him. Conrad divorced her in the time span between the two films, after she becomes obsessed to the point of madness over capturing Hugo. In all European versions, she is called Izabella Scorpio. She was voiced by Jytte Abildstrøm in Danish and Susan Glover in the Miramax dub.
Rita's mother is a city fox living in Copenhagen. Rita first mentions her to Hugo during their encounter at the zoo, explaining that she hunts food for the family during the night, although it seems she rarely finds enough, as Rita says she is always hungry. Rita describes her as "real tough" and implies she has regularly fought and killed the city's stray cats. The hunt leaves her exhausted, and she spends most of the daytime in the den. She strongly disapproves of Rita's nighttime adventures, but can do little to dissuade her. Experienced but somewhat cold, she initially refuses to harbor Hugo when Rita brings him home, stating that the den is already crowded, but Rita's pleading leads her to relent, and she lets him stay for the day. She catches the two before they set off for the banana ship that evening, offering to take Hugo to the docks herself and ordering Rita to stay and look after her siblings. As they enter the industrial park they are pursued by one of the bounty hunters; fearing for her own safety, she abandons Hugo before they reach the harbor, giving him vague directions before fleeing the area. Rita's mother makes two brief appearances in Jungledyret 2. She doubts Hugo will ever return to Copenhagen and tells Rita to forget about him, while she goes out to hunt for food. She is not referenced in later media. She was voiced by Helle Ryslinge in Danish and Sonja Ball in Miramax dub.
Barbie is a stereotypical dumb blonde and, in the second film, is Cupmann Studio's new starlet. It is also implied that she is Conrad's lover. She often chews bubble gum, even on the sound stage. In the original version of the film, her name is Sensuella. She was voiced by Louise Fribo in the Danish dub and Jennifer Seguin in the Miramax dub.
The Jungle Dog is a small bush dog that Hugo and Rita encounter in the third film. Rita discovers the pup when she hides in a hollow log near the Jungle Dog's nest area. The pup mistakes Rita for its mother, and Rita (presuming the pup was abandoned by its real mother) takes it under her wing. Before the film's release, some fans mistook the pup to be Hugo and Rita's child.
Carlton and Heath are the two reporters to catch Hugo and Rita.
A quartet of gangsters, whose names are Bonnie, Sonny, Tonny, and Johnny.
They are two hunters from the jungle who keep trying to catch Hugo.
A female otter who appears in the TV series.
She is a sister of Meatball Charlie from TV series.
He is a wealthy man, grandfather of Georgia Croesus.
He is the leader of the gangsters.
He is the gangster and the twin of Tonny.
He is a Mountain fox from I nordLysets Land.
The original films are known in various locales under different translated names:
A musical comedy and the first film in the series. It was the first film in Denmark to pioneer the use of CGI backgrounds and digital ink and paint software[5] and costed around 17 million DKK to make. 150 cartoonists were signed on to work on the film for a year.[6]
This film introduces Hugo, an apparently one-of-a-kind creature who lives in the Amazon rainforest. Youthful and carefree, Hugo is prone to playing practical jokes with the spider monkeys Zik and Zak. His idyllic lifestyle is interrupted when he is captured by the CEO of a famed movie company, Conrad Cupmann, to be co-star in a Hollywood-style film. In order to return from Copenhagen to his jungle home, he must escape with the help of a newly found friend, Rita the fox.
Miramax Films in partnership with Cinar produced an English dub of the film titled Go Hugo Go, which featured actor Bronson Pinchot as Hugo. Despite the dub having a 1998 copyright, it was not released until 2005 when it was released as straight-to-DVD with its sequel. Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, under license from Miramax, released the film on DVD separate from its sequel in 2011.
The second film is still a musical, but more of a drama than the first film, with themes of friendship and loyalty.
The sequel picks up where the first film left off. Hugo and Rita each tell their friends about how much they miss one another. Meanwhile, the CEO of the film studio still wants to catch him. His plan is to have Hugo co-star in a film, and then earn much money through merchandising.
The English version titled this film Hugo the Movie Star (or Hugo 2: The Movie Star), an almost literal translation of the Danish title. A montage of the first film was put during Rita's song at the beginning of the film. Two TV networks, TV2, in Denmark, and YLE in Finland, collaborated to make this film.[7] Unlike the 1st film which was done with traditional ink and painted cels, Jungledyret 2 was digitally inked and painted using Toonz with some of the CGI elements being created in Softimage. The film cost $25 million DKK to make.[8]
The third film continues from the 2002 animated series, which in turn was a sequel to the second film. It is a CGI film. The plot again involves Hugo being captured, this time by several competing groups of humans, who are all after Hugo for their own reasons. It was co-produced at Asta Film, Nordisk Film, and A. Film's facilities in Latvia. The film was made on a budget of €3,400,000.[9] It was later released in the United States by Phase 4 Films in 2014 under the title Amazon Jack.
In the first book, Hugo and Rita are tired of being on the film set. They would rather go into the jungle and find Hugo's two friends, the monkeys Zik and Zak. They run away together, but finding their way to the jungle proves difficult, as they are caught by a family of wrestlers who want to ransom them.
In the second book, several people want to catch Hugo because he is the rarest animal in the world. His friend Rita the fox helps him in his escape, and this time they are joined by a nisse, who wants to go to the land of the Elf King, which lies far to the north.
In the third book, Hugo is back in his jungle, with his best friend, Rita the fox girl. Although they have a great time with the monkeys, Zik and Zak, and the other friends in the forest, Hugo and his friends face a danger from the jaguar, who is on the loose in their part of the jungle, and several people who want to catch Hugo.
In 2002, the franchise was made into an animated TV-series. It follows the adventures of Hugo and Rita, as they search for a home for the two of them, where they can live in peace and away from any humans that are trying to catch Hugo.
It begins where the second film left off, with Hugo and Rita on the train they jumped on near the end of the second film. Hugo's plan is to return to his jungle with Rita, promising her they can live in peace there. During their journey, General Maximus, ruler of Junglandia and Hugo's home, hears about Hugo and decides to capture him, whose species is the symbol of Junglandia. Eventually, Hugo and Rita are caught and brought to General Maximus, but the duo manage to escape, and they arrive in the jungle. At first, Rita has a hard time adapting to the life in the jungle and all the predators, but with the help from Hugo and his fellow jungle animals, she decides to "give it a try".
For a time, Hugo and Rita live in the jungle, but as the rainy season comes, Hugo and Rita end up being flushed out of the jungle, and are once again being hunted by General Maximus. Fortunately, Hugo and Rita find Meatball Charlie, and he manages to get them away from the General. Hugo and Rita then stay with Meatball Charlie for a while, while planning their next move. Eventually, they end up working in a circus. There, Hugo and Rita meet a tomte, who promises that in return for Hugo and Rita helping him to the North Pole and the Santa Claus's castle, he will teach them how to be invisible. Rita is skeptical about the tomte's magic, but Hugo convinces her that if they could learn how to be invisible, no one could catch them again.
Eventually, they make it to the North Pole, but Hugo and Rita are left behind in the blizzard, as the tomte leaves. As they fall asleep, Hugo and Rita are once again caught, this time by scientists that believe Hugo is an unknown arctic animal. Thanks to help from Meatball Charlie, Hugo and Rita manage to escape the research facility, and General Maximus, who was once again back on Hugo's track. Meatball Charlie then decides that, in order to keep Hugo safe from people hunting him, he buys a house on an island in the middle of a lake in Denmark where Hugo, Rita, and himself can live in peace and freedom. There, Hugo and Rita chose to stay, with Meatball Charlie acting as their "guardian", up until the third film.
13 episodes of 24 minutes were produced, and originally aired 2002–2003 on TV2, but made reruns from 2003 to 2006.
The video game based on the first film was released on November 1, 1995, with a budget of 1.2 million Danish crowns (less than 200,000 US dollars). It is a 2D scrolling platform game which was designed to run on a slow PC.
The films have some content which might be considered unsuitable by United States viewers, considering the films are mainly directed to children. Because of this, Miramax made several edits and cuts when dubbing the films to English.
In the first film, when Hugo is sleeping on a ship, a calendar above him displays a picture of a naked woman. The image was blurred in the Miramax dub. A scene where Hugo is shocked three times by telephone wires and climbs up a brick wall to find, through a window, a man changing channels on a television was cut from the dub. Another scene where Rita spits at the floor where Hugo is standing as a sign of displeasure was also cut. The dub also toned down the original's language and removed some of Izabella's racial remarks about an Indian character. The scene near the end of the film when Izabella becomes insane with her obsession was cut.
In the second film, most edits were limited to dialogue alterations, but two scenes where Conrad is seen grabbing the buttocks of Sensuella/Barbie Turner were cut. Also, apparently for time, a scene where Hugo and Rita are on a train after escaping from Conrad's henchmen and guard dogs was shortened; in the original Hugo hugs Rita before the screen goes to black due to a scene change, but in the English dub the screen goes to black before Hugo hugs Rita.
Also, the music for both films was heavily redone in the English dub, mainly replacing dramatic instrumental or jazz-based music from the original films with more upbeat and friendly melodies. The score in the English version was composed by Jack Maeby, who had contributed to other Miramax dubs at the time.
10. https://www.amazon.com.au/Amazon-Jack-DVD-Anders-Sorensen/dp/B01DRYS8E0 (in Australia)
