My boys love Curious George books, so we were excited to hear about the movie.  We don't actually make it to the theater here very often, but we just rented the dvd and watched it tonight.

Sorry to be negative, but we were kind of disappointed.  My pet peeve came to fruition - they took a great book and just modernized it, changing the original stories and intent of the book.  Firstly, why does Hollywood have to make men look like bumbling idiots?   The man with the yellow hat was a self-confident, assured, masculine man (hey, he flew a helicopter to save George in the kite episode).   In the movie, "Ted" is an insecure, clutsy, goof-ball.   In the book the man with the yellow hat CAUGHT George and STUFFED him in a bag and TOOK him home, ooh, but that would be politically incorrect to take a animal out of its habitat, so we have to make George follow the man.

George is curious, and gets into trouble.  There were a few curious scenes, but not enough, they tried too hard to make it a movie with a plot, when they should have just made little curious shorts.   And where was this scene?:   "After a good meal and a good pipe George felt very tired.   He crawled into bed and fell asleep at once."    

OK, I'm getting a little carried away here.   The best part of the movie was Jack Johnson's melodic singing and the scene where George gets carried away with the paints in the opera singer's apartment.

It was nice to have a G movie to enjoy with the kids, but I just wish they could make innocent, simple movies like the old Disney's The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, and stick to the original story.   The creators of that classic knew Pooh.