Jungle Cruise Ending & Meaning Explained

The ending of Disney’s Jungle Cruise is as twisty as the Amazon, so The Rock and Emily Blunt’s exotic river adventure requires some analysis.

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The ending of Disney’s Jungle Cruise, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and Emily Blunt’s exotic river adventure, has just as many twists and turns as the Amazon. In Jungle Cruise, Dr. Lily Houghton (Blunt), a botanist with shades of Indiana Jones, searches for the Tears of the Moon, a mythical tree with unparalleled healing powers. After an association of explorers denies Lily and her brother, McGregor (Jack Whitehall), access to an arrowhead that could help find the tree, Lily purloins the artifact, and the pair head to the Amazon searching for the magical plant. There, they are guided down the river by Frank Wolff (Johnson), who’s after the Tears of the Moon for his own reasons.

Lily, McGregor, and Frank face many adversaries on their journey to the Tears of the Moon. The movie starts by introducing 16th-century Spanish conquistadors, led by Aguirre (Édgar Ramírez), who have been cursed after searching for the tree. Now, they are never able to die or leave the Amazon River. Leaving sight of the river leaves them trapped in stone and turns them into monsters. Additionally, the film takes place during World War I, and a German aristocrat named Prince Joachim (Jesse Plemons) is also searching for the tree’s healing powers, hoping it’ll help win the war for Germany. For a time, the Germans even join with the Spaniards to stop Lily and her team.

Though Jungle Cruise is based on a Disney theme park ride, the plot is complicated and leads to many questions. For instance, what is actually going on with the Tears of the Moon and its healing powers? Also, what’s the truth about Johnson’s mysterious Frank Wolff? The ending of Jungle Cruise also leaves questions about where the film’s sequels will go in the future. Though, the Disney theme park ride may offer some answers.

What Happens At The End Of Jungle Cruise?

At the end of Jungle Cruise, Lily and Frank discover where Tears of the Moon is located, activating a device that drains part of the Amazon River and reveals a cave that holds the tree. Unfortunately, Prince Joachim has captured Lily’s brother, forcing him to reveal the tree’s location. Frank, Lily, Joachim’s Germans, and the Spaniards all converge on the cave, hoping to get the tree’s petals. After Lily and Frank discover a gem inside the arrowhead, they place it in a contraption that lets the Tears of the Moon bloom. However, the tree can only bloom under the blood moon, and it quickly wilts, leaving Lily as the only one to grab an unwilted petal. Eventually, McGregor kills Joachim and Frank blocks the river water, stopping the cursed conquistadors and turning them into stone. However, in an earlier twist, The Rock’s Frank Wolff revealed that he was one of the conquistadors as well. Because of that, he also turns into stone. Lily uses the petal to save her riverboat skipper and free him from the curse, turning him back into a mortal person. She is then rewarded, as a ray of moonlight makes another petal bloom.

McGregor shows up in a scene at the end, denying an invitation to the Royal Society explorers and rejecting them as they once rudely rejected him and his sister. He notes that his sister is now a professor at Cambridge, hinting that Lily took the petal back with her to London and has become renowned in her efforts to rid the world of disease. During their Amazon adventure, Lily and Frank developed feelings for each other. The end reveals the pair enjoying life together in London and ready to return in a Jungle Cruise sequel.

What Is The Tears Of The Moon?

In Jungle Cruise, Tears of the Moon is the name of a tree with magical healing petals. The tree’s petals supposedly cure any disease or break any curse. With such extraordinary powers, the tree is thought to be a myth. Despite that, Lily devotes years of her life to discovering its whereabouts, hoping that the tree could save millions of lives.

Adventurers can only find the tree with an ancient arrowhead, which the Royal Society explorers eventually get a hold of. But, because the explorers don’t take Lily’s research seriously or respect her as a woman, they deny her the chance to use it. Because of that, she takes things into her own hands, stealing the arrowhead and making her way to the Amazon. After seeing the arrowhead, Frank leaves his life leading Jungle cruises for tourists and makes sure he’s the riverboat skipper Lily travels with.

What Is The Truth About Frank Wolff?

Though Frank originally tells Lily that the Tears of the Moon is a myth, she discovers that he is after the tree and the arrowhead. With the help of friends who live along the river, Frank even tries to trick Lily and McGregor into thinking cannibals captured them and that they have to give up the arrowhead to live. Though he tried to trick Lily out of the arrowhead, Frank later seemingly gives up his life, taking a blade through the heart to save Lily and stop the cursed conquistadors from getting the artifact. Though it looked like he died, Lily and McGregor soon discover Frank is alive.

Frank reveals he is one of Aguirre’s cursed conquistadors forced to live along the river forever. He’s been searching the river for hundreds of years for the Tears of the Moon, but he could never find it without the arrowhead. He wants to find the tree to lift his curse so he can die in peace. Though he never found the Tears of the Moon, he now knows the river inside and out. He’s even the cartographer who drew the map that Lily follows.

What Is The Truth About The Cursed Soldiers?

There’s more to the story of the Spanish conquistadors. According to Frank, Aguirre’s daughter became ill hundreds of years ago, which prompted him to go out searching for the Tears of the Moon. Frank, whose real name is Francisco, was one of the men searching with villainous leader Aguirre. Unfortunately, many of the men died along the journey, and all was lost until a tribe saved the men with petals from Tears of the Moon. The village chief wouldn’t tell Aguirre the tree’s location, however, and soon the Spanish conqueror was leading his men in an attack on the village. The conquistadors were then bound to the river by the chief and cursed to live forever. Frank helped the villagers during the conquistador attack, becoming Aguirre’s enemy and eternally fighting him along the river.

After years of fighting, Frank became tired of being attacked by the conquistadors. So he devised a plan to trap Aguirre and his men, cutting them off from the river. Because they couldn’t see the river water, the conquistadors were turned into stone and became monsters made of the Amazonian wildlife. They were later freed by another Jungle Cruise character, Prince Joachim, who recruits them to help him stop Lily.

What Happens Next In Jungle Cruise?

The Rock is meeting with Disney about a sequel to the movie, and there may be some clues already about where it goes. As the inspiration for the film, Disney’s Jungle Cruise ride seems to hint at the franchise’s future. While Jungle Cruise takes place in the Amazon, the ride covers various rivers from around the world, including the Mekong, the Nile, and the Congo. By focusing on the Amazon, Jungle Cruise leaves the other rivers as possible locations for future films.

What The Ending Of Jungle Cruise Really Means?

Jungle Cruise is a romantic comedy wrapped up in an Indiana Jones-like adventure. Among the themes is a message about selflessness and sharing adventures with others. After Frank selflessly sacrifices his chance at freedom to stop the conquistadors, Lily also selflessly gives up the Tears of the Moon petal to save him. Lily is rewarded for her selflessness, getting one last petal to take back to England and to save others. Thanks to the pair’s self-sacrifice, they are free to book as many future jungle cruises together as they want.

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