Jungledyret Hugo (Danish for "Hugo the Jungle Animal") is a Danish media franchise created by Flemming Quist Møller based on a lullaby he wrote for his son,[1] and was later turned into a full-length animated feature, produced at A.

The first two films were translated, edited, and released in the United States on a single DVD in 1998 by Miramax Family.

[3] A CD-ROM side-scrolling platform game for the PC based on the first film was also made in 1995 and released in Scandinavia.

He can use tools such as levers and skateboards, and can outwit the vast majority of the human beings and other animals, such as snakes, cats, pigs, squirrels and even foxes.

She is kind, streetwise, spunky, and has a decent amount of common sense, unlike Hugo, who is rather impulsive.

She lived with her mother and her two little brothers and one little sister in a den near some railroad tracks, until the second film, where she gets dragged along for the ride by Hugo, who was escaping from Cupmann and his henchmen.

He finds Hugo, who has escaped the cargo hold, and at the end of the voyage, donates him to the city zoo.

In the original Danish production, Meatball Charlie is named Dellekaj (a mixture of "Delle" which is slang for "frikadelle", a kind of meatball and "Kaj" which is a common Danish name) and was voiced by Jesper Klein who also voices Hugo, and Marcel Jeannin in the Miramax dub.

His first relationship started off with Izabella Dehavalot, but he rejected her wishes and left her when Hugo manages to escape Copenhagen in the first film.

Loongkoffer is an animal psychologist hired by Conrad in Jungledyret 2 to tame Hugo, but he fails in his endeavor.

Her goal is to gain notoriety through the exploitation of an animal co-star; she cites several fictional actors, and then her "good friend Michael" and his chimp.

Conrad divorced her in the time span between the two films, after she becomes obsessed to the point of madness over capturing Hugo.

Rita describes her as "real tough" and implies she has regularly fought and killed the city's stray cats.

She catches the two before they set off for the banana ship that evening, offering to take Hugo to the docks herself and ordering Rita to stay and look after her siblings.

As they enter the industrial park they are pursued by one of the bounty hunters; fearing for her own safety, she abandons Hugo before they reach the harbor, giving him vague directions before fleeing the area.

She doubts Hugo will ever return to Copenhagen and tells Rita to forget about him, while she goes out to hunt for food.

Rita discovers the pup when she hides in a hollow log near the Jungle Dog's nest area.

It was the first film in Denmark to pioneer the use of CGI backgrounds and digital ink and paint software[5] and costed around 17 million DKK to make.

Youthful and carefree, Hugo is prone to playing practical jokes with the spider monkeys Zik and Zak.

His idyllic lifestyle is interrupted when he is captured by the CEO of a famed movie company, Conrad Cupmann, to be co-star in a Hollywood-style film.

In order to return from Copenhagen to his jungle home, he must escape with the help of a newly found friend, Rita the fox.

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, under license from Miramax, released the film on DVD separate from its sequel in 2011.