Curious George 4: Royal Monkey

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

Curious George 4: Royal Monkey is a 2019 upcoming direct-to-video official animated musical comedy film adaptation of the children's stories originally by H.A. Rey and Margret Rey, also another sequel to Curious George 3: Back to the Jungle. With Greg Page, guest star from "The Wiggles" and "Butterscotch's Playground", Kristen Bell, Shakira, Jennifer Lopez, Robby Benson, from "Beauty and the Beast" and Susan Egan, from "Hercules" with Terri Hatcher, from "Coraline".

Summary
Curious George is now a royal monkey after he and a monkey prince Felipe had accidentally switch places with each other. After The confused and freaked out Man with the Yellow Hat 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, caused by a evil and jealous Prince Scott, with a huge help from Maxwell and Ian's foster-home children; Troy, Daphne and Gerald, along with their friends; Ana, Isabel and The Mayor.

Join your favorite monkey as he learns how to treat royalty and The courage and brave Man with the Yellow Hat as he and his friends defend the cold-hearted prince and reason the truth as you and your family will learn the story of George's parents and have an adventure of your lifetime!

Plot (Story)
The beginning of the movie starts with George (Frank Welker), with a Global Space Agency heroic medal, watching a view from the rooftop of the apartment building with Ted (Jeff Bennett), singing his friendship song and showing George the memories of 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, a redeemed Danno Wolfe with Kayla, Layla & Tonga, Farmer Dan, Anna, The Quint Family, Mr. Quint, Mrs. Quint, Steve, Betsy, Aunt Margaret, Charkie, Mr. Zoobel, Chef Pisghetti, Netti, Ivan, The Doorman, Hundley, Mr. Glass, John the Indian Chief, Bonny Smooth, Mr. Glass, Marco & his family, Dr. Kulinda with Seymour and Strich, Tech Andrew and Hal Houston were all shown at the city park, where a new woman in town named Tarah (voiced by Susan Egan) first-time meets Ted, who is retreviting his hat after the wind blew if off of his head, 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—with his new adopted foster children; Troy Dunlop (Max Charles), his younger sister; Daphne Shackleford (Tara Strong) and their older brother; Gerald Shackleford's (Jeremy Jordan) agreements, promising to him "not to spill out the beans" to George. That evening, during the preparation for the huge museum celebration, George is worried and sad about Maggie Dunlop, who had died 18 weeks ago, and Ted gently soothes him out, knowing that she will be alright.

During on the way to the museum, Ted, George, Troy, Daphne and Gerald all meet a young female horse rider; Isabel (voiced by Kristen Bell), who dreams of becoming a real princess, and a assistant woman named Ana with The Mayor (voiced by Greg Page) 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 (voiced by herself) concert, much to George and the children'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, 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 confusement as he looked back and sees George (unknowingly calls him "Felipe" by the palace guards) and the carriage rode off back to the kingodm of Steveburg.

In the museum celebration, Ted meets Maxwell (Jason Lee) and Ian (David Cross), who are Troy, Daphne and Gerald's foster parent and uncle, while Troy, Daphne, Gerald and Felipe all went to the huge play fun area, where all the children are 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 Troy, Daphne and Gerald's curious confusements.

After the celebration, while packing up to spend the night with Maxwell and Ian for 9 weeks, Troy curiously tells Ted about their "monkey brother" 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 Ted kindly told them that he will change to normal someday when they returned and Troy, Daphne and Gerald all agreed as they leave with Maxwell and Ian.

Felipe then was in George's bedroom, cleaning up the room and started painting pictures royalty, much to Ted's amazement. Meanwhile in the kingdom of Steveburg, "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, so he begins slowly to learn while still having 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 named as "George") has not woken up like usual days every morning, knowing that Troy was right before yesterday, and by a little later, Felipe, with his rode on, went to the living room and kitchen when he was unexpected startled by Ted, who was standing in front of the balcony window 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, an envy Ted decides that he will simply have to bring the fun to Felipe the hard way. Ted loads a large fire hose up with mud and tries to spray it at Felipe, who got frighten and swiftly dodges every shot by Ted with his 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, Ted accidentally falls out of the tree into the mud, much to the citizen's shock while watching the incident.

Ted, with his first "insane asylum" and being knocked out with a thick tree branch by Felipe, was taken to the Psychiatric hospital, called by Houston (which he was unseen after during the incident, until he reappears with Andrew, Naja and Felipe), being wrapped up and begins to questions the doctors, who are all watching him through the security cameras with Houston, Andrew, Naja and Felipe, who bravely wants to see him. Refusing to despite him, the doctors let Felipe inside the room with a security radio, in case for backup.

Ted argues with Felipe, still thinking him "George" mistakenly for not being curious and fun, until Felipe refuses to respond and Ted gave up and first-time started bawling in tears, much to Felipe's shock. Felipe soothes Ted with his royal handkerchief and touching Ted's nose with his nose, making him laugh and smile, due Felipe starting to grow fond of Ted, who apologizes. The doctors finally release Ted and he and Felipe are friends, and he also apologizes to Houston, Andrew and Naja for his crazy actions, which they all accepted his apology. Houston then tells Ted the true story about George and his parents in Central Africa, much to Felipe's curiosity.

Houston tells them that long ago, fearing for George's safety, 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 soon died afterwards in a giant storm and unseeingly been crushed, much to Ted and Felipe's heart-wrenching reactions.

Characters

 * 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 died in illness (mentioned only)
 * Isabel: a young girl, who dreams of becoming a real princess and loves to ride horses (debut)
 * Ana: (debut)
 * The Mayor: (debut)
 * Prince Felipe: 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's new adopted son, who resembles himself much like Ted's childhood form, acting very well-behaved and a face of Farmer Dan's daughter; Anna (debut)
 * Daphne Lynn Shackleford: Ted's new adopted daughter and Troy's younger sister, who is also acting very well-behaved and wears a pink and white sailor dress (debut)
 * Gerald Jeremy Shackleford: Ted's second adopted son and Troy and Daphne's oldest brother (debut)
 * Prince Scott: A cold-hearted prince, who used to be a kind-hearted and devoted prince, many years ago before Felipe, was treated cruel and selfish by the citizens, became a monstrous, psycho ragged prince and refusing to forgive anybody (debut)
 * Tarah (The first Woman with the Yellow Hat): George's New guardian and Ted's new love interest, who is Maggie's college friend and dreams of being a museum directress (debut)
 * Maxwell: Troy, Daphne, & Gerald's foster parent and a friend of Ian, Tara, Ted, & George (debut).
 * Ian: a friendly man who works and lives alone at Jett Records & he also works at International Music Awards with Maxwell & a friend of Maxwell, George, Ted, & Tara, and a uncle of Daphne, Gerald, & Troy (debut).

Voice Casts

 * Frank Welker as George/Felipe
 * Jeff Bennett  as Ted (The Man with the Yellow Hat)
 * Bill Fagerbakke as Hal Houston (replacing John Goodman)
 * Tom Kenny as Tech Andrew (replacing Alexander Polinsky)
 * Anika Noni Rose as Dr. Kulinda (replacing Angela Bassett)
 * Greg Page as The Narrator (aka Old Ted)/The Mayor
 * Robby Benson as Prince Scott
 * Jennifer Lopez as Ana
 * Susan Egan as Tarah
 * Terri Hatcher as Tarah (singing voice)
 * Shakira as herself
 * Kristen Bell as Isabel
 * Max Charles as Troy Dunlop
 * Tara Strong as Daphne Shackleford/Old Tara
 * Jeremy Jordan as Gerald Shackleford
 * Jason Lee as Maxwell
 * David Cross as Ian

Trivia

 * 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 2 live action/CGI Characters Jason Lee as Maxwell and David Cross as Ian.

Songs

 * 1) Like Curious George - Dr. John
 * 2) You'll Be in My Heart (Phil Collins version) - The casts
 * 3) One Small Voice (Kenny Loggins version) - Jeff Bennett and the casts
 * 4) My Old Friend - Jeff Bennett
 * 5) More than Just a Spare (tune of "More is Out There" from My Little Pony Equestria Girls: Friendship Games/duet version)- Jeff Bennett and Terri Hatcher
 * 6) Ready as I'll Ever Be (from Tangled the Series) - Jeremy Jordan, Greg Page and Jeff Bennett
 * 7) Everybody Dance (from Butterscotch's Playground) - Greg Page
 * 8) History Book (from Butterscotch's Playground) - Terri Hatcher, Jeff Bennett and Kristen Bell
 * 9) My Old Friend (reprise) - Jeff Bennett and Terri Hatcher
 * 10) Don't Matter If You're Been Different (tune of Michael Jackson's Black or White) - Jeff Bennett, Greg Page and the casts
 * 11) The Act of Friendship - Jeff Bennett, Terri Hatcher, Kristen Bell and Greg Page
 * 12) Like Curious George (pop version) - Shakira

Production
August 3, 2019

Trivia

 * The song "My Old Friend", Ted's friendship song, is very similar to the Chipettes' original song "My Mother" (covered by Daniel Bisell).
 * Ted yelling out "GGGGGGEEEEEEEEOOOOOOORRRRRRRRGGGGGGEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!". in this film with his anger before the end credits is similar to Dave getting angry yelling out "ALVIIIIIIIIIIIIN!" before the end credits in 4 films of Alvin & The Chipmunks.