Top billed cast

1. 

   Will Ferrell

   Ted (Man with the Yellow Hat) (voice)

2. 

   Drew Barrymore

   Maggie (voice)

3. 

   David Cross

   Junior (voice)

4. 

   Eugene Levy

   Clovis (voice)

5. 

   Joan Plowright

   Ms. Plushbottom (voice)

6. 

   Dick Van Dyke

   Mr. Bloomsberry (voice)

7. 

   Frank Welker

   George (voice)

8. 

   Ed O'Ross

   Ivan (voice)

9. 

   Michael Chinyamurindi

   Edu (voice)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2025-02-22

With his museum on it’s knees, enthusiastic “Ted” promises his boss that he will don his bright hello hat and set off to deepest Africa to fetch a crowd-pleasing idol that will surely save the day. Despite the protestations of the owner’s son who wants to sell the site for a car park, he isn’t going to be thwarted. After a few “Indiana Jones” moments he obtains his heart’s desire - but it’s barely knee high to a grasshopper. On his way home, he discovers that that’s not all he is taking home as a brightly coloured monkey has also tagged along for the voyage. Quickly named �...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$50,000,000.00

Revenue
$69,834,815.00

Keywords

• hat
• africa
• museum
• human animal relationship
• product placement
• balloon
• jungle
• based on children's book
• monkey
• family
• prediction
• cargo ship
• curiosity
• natural history museum
• animal protagonist
• anthropomorphic