Michael Cromwell

Michael Cromwell is the main protagonist in Disney's 1997 comedy movie, Jungle 2 Jungle. He was portrayed by Tim Allen.

Role in the Film
Michael Cromwell is a trader on Wall Street. He is engaged to his fiance Charlotte and wishes to marry her. But he runs into a problem. His current wife Patricia Cromwell, who ran away from Michael many years ago is residing in South America and they are still technically married. Michael has to travel to South America to meet up with Patricia to sign divorce papers to officially end their marriage so he can marry Charlotte. However his problems get worse. He learns from Patricia that he has a son named Mimi Siku and worst of all, he and his partner Richard Kempster are communicating via computers and Richard is suppose to sell the coffee ground shares and he waits for Michael to confirm with him. Michael's laptop computer runs out of battery power and he loses communications with Richard. When he returns home to New York City, he learns that Richard didn't sell the coffee and they end up in big trouble.

Richard notifies Michael that there's someone who has a lot of money and is willing to help them. It turns out that the guy is a Russian mafia mob boss named Alexei Jovanovic. Jovanovic doesn't want the coffee to fall below 75 percent and he aggrees to buy shares if the coffee does well. So they made a deal and get $1 million from Jovanovic. Later on, Mimi Siku spends the night at Richard Kempster's house with his family while Michael needs to spend some time with Charlotte. However, their date night is interrupted by Richard when he hears about the coffee falling and that Jovanovic is not going to be happy and insists that they need to return the money to Jovanovic, which they do. But the next morning, Jovanovic gets angry and feels that Michael and Richard have screwed him over so he calls Michael to come to the house right away as he's having trouble getting his daughter Karen and Mimi out of her bedroom, which she has locked herself inside. After they manage to get her out, Jovanovic arrives at Richard's house with his comrades to obtain the coffee certificates, which he has given to Richard after buying back the shares, which cost him money. He attempts to cut off Richard's fingers, but with the help of Michael, Mimi, and Mimi's pet spider Maitika, they defeat Jovanovic and his comrades. The Russian mafia leaves Richard's house and never seen again.

Michael takes Mimi to see the Statue of Liberty, which he wanted to see, but decides he wants to go home. Michael takes him back to the airport and later he and Charlotte decide to call off the wedding. When he goes to the office to see his boss, the boss is happy that the coffee is going up and they go to the trading floor. Michael uses the blow gun to kill a fly on the bosses' back and he his the fly and the boss falls down to sleep on the floor. Then Michael travels to South America to see Mimi Siku and show him the fly he killed with the dart and gives him a pot. Richard and his family have joined Michael on his trip and Karen and Mimi are together again. At the end, during a tribal ceremony, Michael grabs the hot end of a big stick as he was afraid too last time. Then he's running off and screaming in pain of his burning hand.