Curious George 4: Royal Monkey

"From the filmmakers that brought you Clifford's Really Big Movie"

Curious George 4: Royal Monkey is an upcoming 2019 American hand-drawn animated musical comedy direct-to-video film of the children's stories by H.A. Rey and Margret Rey. Produced by Imagine Entertainment, Perfect World Pictures, Universal Animation Studios, Universal 1440 Entertainment, and Splash Entertainment, and distributed for home media by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment, it is the fourth installment of the Curious George movie series and another prequel to Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle.

Frank Welker and Jeff Bennett reprise their roles as George and the Man with the Yellow Hat respectively, while the other characters that are created exclusively for the film are voiced by Jason Lee & David Cross from "Alvin and the Chipmunks", Greg Page; guest star from "The Wiggles" and "Butterscotch's Playground", Kristen Bell from "Frozen", Shakira, Queen Latifah from "Ice Age: The Meltdown", Patrick Warburton and Zendaya from "Shake It Up".

Summary
Curious George is now a royal monkey after he and a monkey prince, Felipe had accidentally switch places with each other (unbeknownst to them that the plan was idea from the revengeful Danno Wolfe). After The confused and freaked out Ted got mixed-up Felipe as "George" by mistake, he and Felipe must figure it out the way to get George back....and finding out the true story of George's deceased parents, with a huge help from his friends; Ana, Isabel and The Mayor and Tarah.

Join your favorite monkey as he learns how to treat royalty and The courage and brave Ted as he, Felipe and their friends, even you and your family will learn the story of George's parents, stopping Danno Wolfe's plan and have an adventure of your lifetime!

Plot (Story)
The beginning of the movie starts with George (Frank Welker) watching a view out of the balcony of the apartment building with Ted (Jeff Bennett) singing a song while showing George and himself all the memories of their friendship ever since 20 years ago (through the 2006 film, TV Series to Back to the Jungle film), much to the citizens' happiness—including firefighters; Andie, Stig, Stew, The Grocer & his son, Mr. Renkins, Mrs. Renkins, Allie, Bill, Mr. Piccadilly, his lovely assistant; Tina, Ms. Fisher with Kayla, Layla & Tonga, Farmer Dan, Anna, The Quint Family, Mr. Quint, Mrs. Quint, Steve, Betsy, Aunt Margaret, Charkie, Mr. Zoobel, Chef Pisghetti, Netti, The Doorman, Hundley, Mr. Glass, John the Indian Chief, Bonny Smooth, Mr. Glass, Marco & his family, Dr. Naja Kulinda with Seymour and Strich, Tech Andrew and Hal Houston were all shown at the city, where a new woman in town named Tarah (voiced by Kristen Bell) first-time meets Ted, who is retrieving his hat, and George, and also find out that she and Ted had something in comment and grew fond with each other.

Later, for Ted's thrilling idea to secretly surprise George, he had planned a friendship anniversary—promising to himself "not to spill out the beans" to him. That evening, during the preparation for the huge museum celebration, George is sad that Maggie Dunlop had passed away 18 weeks ago, and Ted gently soothes him out, knowing that she will be alright.

During on the way to the museum, Ted and George both meet a young female horse rider; Isabel Derpy (voiced by Zendaya); the younger sister of The Princess of Bratvia, who dreams of becoming a real princess just like her sister, and a assistant woman named Ana (voiced by Queen Latifah) with The Royal Mayor (voiced by Robby Benson) of the Annual Royal Horse-Riding competition, who is helding a competition of winning a gold royal trophy and free tickets to the live Shakira concert, much to George's amazement.

Ted first disagrees because it wouldn't be a good idea for George to handle any competitions and also refuse to accept the money prize because he would rathered to work hard for money, but without knowing, George wandered off through the city park to take himself a tour of preparing Shakira concert, until he surprisingly came upon his first "counter-partner"; Felipe, a young monkey prince who is very identical to George, but with a tail and forest green eyes.

Felipe and George both almost started to became friends with each other while playing dress-up with Felipe's royal clothes, until they hear Ted calling out and, while preparing to leave, George accidentally swapped places with Felipe, who swiftly hides his tail after Ted founded him behind the bushes, unknowingly calls him "George" and took Felipe to the museum celebration, much to Felipe's curious as he looked back and sees George (unknowingly calls him "Felipe" by the palace guards) and the carriage rode off back to the kingdom of Bratvia.

In the museum celebration, Ted meets Maxwell (Jason Lee) and Ian (David Cross), while Felipe and the other children all went to the huge play fun area, where they're having fun (but as for Felipe, he doesn't much know how to have fun like everybody else). During the beginning of Ted's meeting, Felipe, treating himself royalty, instead went to the audience and watches the meeting presentation begins, much to Ted's confusement.

After the celebration, Ted pants back and forth about Felipe had refuses to have fun with them during the huge play fun area and believing that he had stopped being curious at the same time, but he calmly told them that he will change back to normal someday.

Felipe then was in George's bedroom, cleaning up the room and started painting pictures royalty, much to Ted's amazement (at first before). Meanwhile in the kingdom of Bratvia, "Prince" George was inside the great, giant palace (home of Felipe), where there's a huge ballroom, a huge swimming pool, a huge art room and even a huge bedroom, much to his curious surprise-amazement. George doesn't even know how to treat royalty, but he then started to have fun with the kingdom's public children, much to the citizen's amazement.

The next day back in Chicago, while making breakfast, Ted grew a little nervous that Felipe (still mistaken him as "George") has not woken up like he usual does every morning, knowing that he was wrong before yesterday, and by a little later, Felipe, with his robe on, went to the living room and kitchen when he was unexpected startled by Ted, who was standing in front of the balcony doors, while doing his attempts to physically force Felipe to have fun and curious like he always do.

Getting frustrated after being tossed in a large puddle of mud in the park, launched by Felipe, a now envy Ted, being covered in mud, decides that he will simply have to bring the fun to Felipe "the hard way". Ted loads his extra large size fire hose pants and fire hose up with mud and tries to spray it at Felipe, who got frighten and swiftly dodges every shot by Ted with his first maniacal laugh, much to his dismay.

Outside, he corners the latter in a large tree and climbs up, unloading his ammo at what Ted presumes to be Felipe. Afterwards, Felipe then steals Ted's ladder, leaving him stuck on top of the tree. Then, Ted annoyingly notices Felipe sneaking towards back to the apartment building. He gives him a three-second count to not going back until he had fun and be curious again. However, once Felipe refused, Ted, while scolding at Felipe, accidentally falls out of the tree into the mud, much to the citizen's shock while watching the incident.

Back home, a mud-covered Ted then again argues with Felipe, still thinking him "George" mistakenly for not being curious and fun, still Felipe refuses to respond, Ted then gave up and first-time started sobbing in tears, much to Felipe's surprise shock. Felipe soothes Ted with his royal handkerchief and touching Ted's nose with his nose, making him giggle, due Felipe now starting to grow fond of Ted, who apologizes and started to become friends, and he also apologizes to Houston, Andrew and Naja soon entered Ted's apartment and Houston then tells Ted "the true story" about George and his "real" parents in Africa, much to his and Felipe's curiosity.

In Houston's story, long time ago, long before the idol of Zagawa was built, fearing for baby George's safety, baby George and his parents rushed to the river of South Africa, where George's mother places him in a logged raft, not before bidding him farewell with a final but beautiful lullaby, and they unseeingly soon died afterwards in a giant storm and unseeingly been crushed, much to Ted and Felipe's emotionals. After the story, Ted, not realizing that George is already "familed" ever since, decides that he and a now-reformed Felipe (who has been listening to the entire story and feels bad for George) must work together to bring back George from Bratvia, taking him back home in Chicago and create a new family beginning, much to Houston, Andrew and Naja's agreements.

Back with George, the citizens of Bratvia were all invited to the Royal Monkey's celebration, where there's a lot of music, dancing, art & crafting, swimming and a huge royal feast, much to George's amazement, but feeling left out by the guards, who were overprotecting him because he is too royalty to have fun, now very much to George's boredom, secretly wanting to go back home, but although he gets to join the feast.

Back in Chicago, Ted and Felipe both prepared to go to the kingdom of Bratvia to retrevie George back, telling Houston, Andrew, Naja and everybody else that they will be back before Troy, Daphne and Gerald returned with Maxwell and Ian. But clutching a police horse (lent by the police officers), Tarah then appears, wanting to go with Ted and Felipe to help them, since unseeningly she overhears the story long before seeing Ted again, much to Ted's agreement, and they all rode on to the kingdom of Bratvia while everyone in Chicago watches in nervousness.

But after a half-an-hour ride, the police horse got frighten by a tree falling to the ground, sending Ted, Tarah and Felipe flying off and rode away back to Chicago. Ted then gets scared and nervous that the police horse rode away and lost the track of finding the way to Bratvia while Felipe and Tarah gently tries to soothe him out, until a woman in a black uniform and hood; which it was herself; Shakira (voiced by herself), the singer actress, much to Ted's amazement, introducing herself to Tarah and Felipe.

Back with the dark forest, not far from Bratvia, Ted gets struggled while Tarah, with Felipe in her arms, tries to calm him down, but Ted however said he's too freaked out to be calmed, not noticing that Felipe calls the woodland animals to help, much to Tarah's amazement. The woodpecker tapped gently on Ted's back, making him feel relaxed, and the raccoons made a huge bed of leaves by the time Ted is slowly started to lay down. Tarah quietly thanked Felipe for getting Ted to be relaxed with a kiss.

That night, back at Bratvia, George gets bored in the palace and decided to go back with Ted and switched places back with Felipe, but until he was unseeingly been kidnapped away by Danno Wolfe (which after George soon found out that it was a trap and made a huge mistake), making the crown fell from his head and knocked unconscious. Then, Ted wakes up to find himself, Tarah and Felipe resting on the raft (unseeingly made by Danno Wolfe), much to Ted's insane reaction, frightening Tarah and Felipe, but until they ended up in a belly of a whale, unexpectedly.

In the whale's mouth, Ted was getting frustrated as he tries to attempt to break out by ramming into the whale's baleen, much to Felipe's frighten shock. He yells at himself, calling him insane and tearfully lamenting the fact that he'll never see George again, and Felipe and Tarah gently soothes him out, making Ted cheer up. The water in the mouth begins to fill up. The whale then lifts his mouth to open, making Ted and Felipe quickly realized that "the whale is gonna open his mouth" and prepared to go underwater, knowing everything will be all right. Ted and Felipe then closed their eyes, starting to hold their breathe and swim out of the whale before the whale's mouth closes just in time. Overjoyed to have finally arrived at the palace of Bratvia, Ted, for the first time doing his whale impression, sends his thanks to the whale, much to Felipe's amazement, and encourages Felipe to help him find George.

Inside the palace, the palace guards slowly recognized Felipe as he showed his tail and pulled back his fur, thanking Ted for finding "the monkey prince" and one of them rushed over to the bedroom to go get George, much to Ted's joy. But, now much to Ted's terrified when the guards told them, Ted and Felipe that George was "stolen" and they've searched every room and no avail. Apologizing to Ted for arriving too late, the guards all offered him to spend the night at the palace, since a long far ride back to Chicago, and Ted sadly agreed while Felipe stayed with him to give him company, but soon Felipe showed Ted George in the mirror, much to Ted's worried shock.

He eventually deduces that he has been kidnapped by Danno Wolfe, but not before the guards grant him and Felipe a "mighty trusted sword" with it. After arriving and before helding a wedding, Ted proposes a game to Prince Scott: if Ted cannot find George, he will let him marry Tarah and keep George forever, but if he can, George will be free. Danno Wolfe reluctantly agrees. Using the sword, Ted and Felipe find the ghosts in the island, now turned into nightmarish, from its monstrous, freakish, deranged inhabitants. As they do, the island is surroundings gradually disintegrate until only the enchantment room is left. Inside, Ted and Felipe see Danno Wolfe with Tarah as the wedding was about to begin on a full moon. Warned that Prince Scott will never accept Ted and Felipe's victories,

Inside the palace, Ted, with Ana, Isabel, The Royal Mayor, Shakira, Houston, Andrew and Naja, along with Seymour and Strich, with him, had placed George on a royal stool bed, worrying that he is too late to save George after battling Prince Scott. As Ted sadly was about to leave the room, George wakes up, much to everyone's surprise shock (including Tarah and Felipe), he and a overjoyed Ted happily reunited with each other at long last, with the guards cheering and Ted tells him he missed him so much and felt sorry about his late parents, according Houston's story, making George smiled, and also Felipe (now was back in his royal uniform) as well.

The next day while practicing for the tonight's competition, The Royal Mayor helps George how to practice riding a horse, just like Isabel, by riding on a goat; Fernando for example, but once George tried to stop Fernando by pulling hard on a fur, he was sent flying high and splash-landed on a large mud puddle, much to Felipe and Ted's laughter, realizing it was funny and telling a little annoyed George that he got "for-goat". Trying again and refusing to give up, George keeps on until he finally succeeded and was fully ready to enter the competition.

Characters

 * The Narrator (aka Old Ted): A omniscient, old, but slender gentleman, who tells the audience a story through the movie (debut)
 * Curious George: A original tailless monkey
 * Ted Shackleford (aka The Man with the Yellow Hat): George's monkey parent and a museum director, who is the only one first-time discovers the story about George's parents
 * Maggie Dunlop: Ted's current girlfriend, who unseeningly died of illness (seen in the opening scene, flashbacks and mentioned throughout the movie)
 * Tarah: George's new guardian and Ted's new love interest, who is Maggie's college friend and dreams of being a museum "directress" instead of a school teacher (debut)
 * Danno Wolfe: A head security, now-fired by Piccadilly, takes revenge on Ted and George and plots to get rid of them and marry Tarah
 * The Princess of Bratvia: (mentioned/briefly cameo)
 * Isabel Derpy: a young girl, who is The Princess of Bratvia's younger sister, dreaming of becoming a real princess like her sister and loves to ride horses (debut)
 * Ana: an assistant adviser of Isabel and a friend of Ted, Felipe and George (debut)
 * The Royal Mayor: The mayor of Bratvia who is holding an Annual Royal Horse-Riding competition (debut)
 * Prince Felipe: A monkey prince of Bratvia, George's first counterpart, who mistakenly him as "George", by Ted, after accidentally switched places with George while playing dress up (debut)
 * Troy Shawn Dunlop: Ted and Tarah's son, who resembles himself much like Ted's childhood form, acting very well-behaved and a face resembles of Farmer Dan's daughter; Anna (debut)
 * Daphne Lynn Shackleford: Ted and Tarah's daughter and Troy's younger sister, who is also acting very well-behaved with orange hair like Maggie Dunlop's and wears a pink and white sailor dress (debut)
 * Gerald Jeremy Shackleford: Ted and Tarah's adopted son and Troy and Daphne's oldest brother (debut)
 * Genevieve: A beautiful female chimpanzee, of Bratvia, in a pink lavender dress with a big pink hair bow, who is George's first love interest (debut)
 * Maxwell: Troy, Daphne and Gerald's foster parent and a friend of Ian, Tarah, Felipe, Ted and George (debut)
 * Ian: a friendly man who works and lives alone at Jett Records, but also works at International Music Awards with Maxwell, a friend of Maxwell, George, Felipe, Ted and Tarah and a uncle of Daphne, Gerald and Troy (debut)

Voice Casts

 * Frank Welker as George/Felipe
 * Jeff Bennett as Ted (The Man with the Yellow Hat)
 * John Goodman as Hal Houston
 * Alexander Polinsky as Tech Andrew
 * Anika Noni Rose as Dr. Kulinda (replacing Angela Bassett)
 * Jason Lee as Maxwell
 * David Cross as Ian
 * Greg Page as The Narrator (aka Old Ted)
 * Robby Benson as The Royal Mayor
 * Queen Latifah as Ana
 * Kristen Bell as Tarah
 * Shakira as herself
 * Zendaya as Isabel

Additional Voices

 * Jamie Kennedy as Danno Wolfe
 * Nickie Bryar as Maggie Dunlop
 * Max Charles as Troy Dunlop
 * Tara Strong as Daphne Shackleford/Old Tarah Shackleford
 * Jeremy Jordan as Gerald Shackleford

Songs

 * 1) Like Curious George - Dr. John
 * 2) Up for Anything (Ted Version/ song reuse from Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle) - Jeff Bennett and the choirs
 * 3) The Act of Friendship - Jeff Bennett
 * 4) Remember Me (reuse from Collateral Beauty/Illusions) - Thomas Bergersen
 * 5) One Small Voice (Kenny Loggins version) - Jeff Bennett and the casts
 * 6) My Old Friend - Jeff Bennett, Kristen Bell and the choirs
 * 7) Like Curious George (pop ending version) - Shakira
 * 8) You'll Be in My Heart (Phil Collins version) - The casts

Production
Perfect World Pictures will co-produce the upcoming film.

Trivia

 * The song "My Old Friend", Ted's friendship song, is very similar to the Chipettes' original song "My Mother" (covered by Daniel Bisell).
 * This is the first time Ted goes crazy and psychopath after finding out Felipe (mistakenly him as George) has stopped been curious during the museum celebration before, trying to make him to have fun.
 * This is the first time to feature Jason Lee as Maxwell and the return of David Cross first time voicing his role as Ian.
 * Frank Welker, originally voices as George, is also portraying for Felipe in the movie.
 * In "King Doggie" episode in the TV Series, the Princess of Bravita (Isabel Derpy's sister) was seen in her apartment building nearby, but in the movie, the real kingdom of Bravita is far, far away from Chicago.
 * Just like Gru from "Despicable Me", Ted will adopted three children; Troy, Daphne and Gerald from Maxwell and Ian's foster home in the end of the movie after marrying Tarah.
 * The fourth Curious George direct-to-video film to be a 2.35:1 widescreen aspect ratio.