The man in the yellow hat.  A curious little monkey.  And a city full of interesting things and places.

Add these three things together and you have the characters and scenario for a duo that has characterized hilarity with children for a very long time. Over sixty years ago, H.A. Rey wrote the first Curious George story, the tale of a little monkey whose curiosity very often got the better of him.

George lives with the man in the yellow hat. Simply that. He has no name, but is simply called the man in the yellow hat. And time after time George gets into more and more trouble--despite the man in the yellow hat's constant warnings.

In February 2006, moviegoers everywhere had the option of seeing the delightful treat that is Curious George.  Director Matthew O'Callaghan, with the help of writers Robert L. Baird and Dan Gerson turned the lovable little monkey George from pictures and words on a page, and brought it to life in this hour and 22 minute long movie. 

Curious George starts out--appropriately enough--in the jungle. We meet George and immediately discover his curiosity as he is fascinated with things like a hippopatamus blowing bubbles as it sleeps underwater, or his reflection in one of those bubbles. Throughout the first scene George gets into scrapes with all sorts of parents of little jungle animals, because they don't exactly appreciate George's curiosity for what it is. Next, we meet the man in the yellow hat--or Ted--as he is called in this movie.

Ted and George's worlds collide when Ted is sent on an expedition to Africa to find the Lost Idol of Zagawa for his employer, the owner of a museum. George is fascinated by Ted's yellow hat, because he thinks it's a banana. When Ted reaches the end of his journey to find the idol, and returns home unsuccessfully, George follows him, and stows away on the ship back to America and then follows Ted home. Chaos ensues all over the town as George gets into many scrapes by painting a woman's home, collecting so many balloons that he floats away, and accidentally making himself appear like a giant monkey walking all over town. In his anger, Ted tells animal control to take George away and is left all alone, while George is placed in a cage, and then placed on a boat back to Africa.

So the question is: does Ted ever return to Africa and find the Lost Idol of Zagawa?  Does he ever get George back?  Well, to figure that out, you'll have to go see the movie for yourself!