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 or 2020 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, 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 a 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 from "Alvin and the Chipmunks", Greg Page; guest star from "The Wiggles" and "Butterscotch's Playground", Kristen Bell from "Frozen", Shakira, Diana Ross from "The Wiz", 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 and The Man's first love interest; Tarah.

Join your favorite monkey as he learns how to treat royalty and The courage and brave Man with the Yellow Hat as he, Felipe and their 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) 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, 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. 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 Susan Egan) first-time meets Ted, who is retreviting 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—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 sad that Maggie Dunlop 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 Derpy (voiced by Kristen Bell); 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 Diana Ross) with The Royal 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 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 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 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 Bratvia.

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 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 Troy was right 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.

Ted, with his "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 first 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 (which Ted found out his name) are started to become 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 "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 unseeningly 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 "familed" years ago, 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 and telling another story, but this time about a young prince named Scott.

In Shakira's story, many years ago, Prince Scott was a kind-hearted spirit to everyone in Bratvia, including the children and the animals, which they all love him very much, until after 5 weeks later, Felipe was born and was crowned a new prince and everyone was starting to love him more, much to Scott's envy and jealous and slowly became a cold-hearted and selfish prince, who was now banned from Bratvia after the citizens treated him cruel, starting to live on a stranded island where he had discovered an underground trespassing cave (reference from the film; Coraline) and dark magic. Years passed and everyone from Bratvia rowed all the way to the island to apologize Scott, but Scott however, as he unseeningly transforms into a hideous beast (reference from Beauty and the Beast), refuses to forgive them all, scaring them away. From that moment on, the island nearby Bratvia was now forbidden for everyone to go to, because of Prince Scott.

After the terrible story, Ted started to feel bad for Prince Scott and needed some help, wanting him to redeem himself, forgiving everyone in Steveburgs and join "buddyship" with him once after finding George, much to Shakira's dismay, but Tarah and Felipe's strong agreements with Ted. Shakira tries to keep Ted, Tarah and Felipe away from Steveburgs' stranded island, but Ted refused to listen to her as he declared that he will not spend the rest of his life without George, much to Shakira's worriness. Meanwhile in the foster home, during dinnertime, Troy and Daphne are a little worried about their father, and Maxwell and Ian kindly tell them that Ted will be "in good hands" with George (still which it is Felipe) and change his mind back to "his ordinary self" sooner, making Troy and Daphne smile, knowing that they're right.

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. Back at Bratvia, George then gets bored in the palace and decided to go back with Ted and switched places back with Felipe, but until he was unseeningly been kidnapped away by Prince Scott, making the crown fell from his head and cursing him into a deep sleep.

The next day, Ted wakes up to find himself, Tarah and Felipe resting on the raft (unseeningly made by Prince Scott), much to Ted's insane reaction, frightening Tarah and Felipe, but until they reached to the stranded island and into an underground trespassing cave, much to Ted, Tarah and Felipe's curiosity. While still having his young suitor form, Prince Scott then appears and kindly inviting Ted, Tarah (which he started to grow fond of her so much of her beauty appearance) and Felipe to his huge enchantment room (which Scott had constructed everything himself).

There, Ted asked him to help him find George so he and the others can get back to Chicago and on time for the competition and also mentions that he is very sorry about what happen years ago. Confused, Prince Scott wonders how Ted noticed, which Ted replied that Shakira had told a story, again, asking him to help them out to find George and to forgive everyone in Bratvia if he redeems himself and joins the act of "buddyship" with Ted. Enraged, Prince Scott angrily refused as he (now seeningly) slowly transforms into a tall monstrous form, much to Ted, Tarah and Felipe's horror reactions, trapping Ted and Felipe in a belly of a whale, telling Ted that he will never forgive anymore and not accept Ted's "buddyship" and a horrified Tarah was forced to become his wife.

Back at the foster home, that night, Daphne calmly explains to "Uncle" Ian about a hideous beast in the story; Beauty and the Beast (told by Maxwell during storytime) as she grew a little nervous, and Ian kindly replied to her that the curse would be broken if he had won the love and forgiveness, but if not, he would doom and died as a beast forever, much to Daphne's shock, but in amazement, knowing Ian was truly right.

Meanwhile, in the whale's mouth, Ted was getting frustrated at Prince Scott 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 to Prince Scott for refusing to forgive anyone in Bratvia, calling him insane and tearfully lamenting the fact that he'll never see George again, and Felipe 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 Prince Scott and returns to the island, 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 and "the late prince ghosts", he will let him rule Brativa and marry Tarah, but if he can, they will all be set free. Prince Scott 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 Prince Scott in his beastly form 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, Ted tricks him into unlocking the door. While Prince Scott is distracted, Ted finds George in a sleeping spell, grabs him, and Tarah throws her cat; Filly at Prince Scott's face, causing him to get a scar over his left eye. Prince Scott furiously converts the floor into a ambushed-net trap (formed like a spiderweb), but Ted, with sleeping George in his arms, Tarah and Felipe manage to climb out of it, but Prince Scott screams like a lion at them that they will never escape from him but Ted kicks him in the face.

With the assistance of the late prince ghosts, Tarah and Felipe, Ted strongly manages to slam the door shut. Locking the door with the royal golden key around his neck, Prince Scott realizes his own doom and screams horrendously that he will promise to be good as he tries to break down the door, but Ted, Tarah and Felipe refuse to redeem him, finding out it's "far too late". His powerful actions of attempting to break the down the door cause the door and the passageway of the island itself to be shaken and pushed forwards towards Bratvia but Ted swiftly locks the door from the great wall of Brativa just in time. Inside the palace, Ted, with Ana, Isabel, The Royal Mayor, Shakira, Houston, Andrew and Naja with him, placed George on a royal stool bed, worrying that a heartbroken Ted is too late to save George after battling Prince Scott. As Ted sadly walked away to leave the room, George wakes up, much to everyone's surprise shock (including Tarah and Felipe), he and Ted happily reunited at long last, with the guards cheering and Ted overjoyfully tells him he missed him so much, making George smiled.

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 died in illness (seen in the opening scene and flashbacks, mentioned throughout the movie)
 * 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: a young girl, who dreams of becoming a real princess and loves to ride horses (debut)
 * The Royal Mayor: The mayor of Bratvia who is holding an Annual Royal Horse-Riding competition (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 and Isabel's new friend, 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, Isabel's new second friend 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 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, & 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)
 * Nickie Bryar as Maggie Dunlop
 * Greg Page as The Narrator (aka Old Ted)/The Royal Mayor
 * Robby Benson as Prince Scott
 * Diana Ross as Ana
 * Susan Egan as Tarah Shackleford (The Woman with the Yellow Hat)
 * Terri Hatcher as Tarah (singing voice)
 * Shakira as herself
 * Kristen Bell as Isabel
 * Max Charles as Troy Dunlop
 * Tara Strong as Daphne Shackleford/Old Tarah Shackleford
 * Jeremy Jordan as Gerald Shackleford
 * Jason Lee as Maxwell
 * David Cross as Ian

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) History Book (song reuse from Butterscotch's Playground) - Terri Hatcher and Jeff Bennett
 * 5) One Small Voice (Kenny Loggins version) - Jeff Bennett and the casts
 * 6) My Old Friend - Jeff Bennett, Terri Hatcher, Kristen Bell and the choirs
 * 7) Don't Matter If You're Been Different (tune of Michael Jackson's Black or White) - Jeff Bennett and the casts
 * 8) Like Curious George (pop ending version) - Shakira
 * 9) You'll Be in My Heart (Phil Collins version) - The casts

Production
August 3, 2019 or 2020

Trivia

 * Susan Egan, from Disney's Hercules, will portray her voice as Tarah, and singing voice will be portray by Terri Hatcher, from Coraline.
 * 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 voicing 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 movie.
 * The passageway doorway scene was taken from "Coraline" for the movie.