Jumanji

4.25
    Jumanji
    1995

    Synopsis

    When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.

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    Cast

    • Robin WilliamsAlan Parrish
    • Kirsten DunstJudy Shepherd
    • Bradley PiercePeter Shepherd
    • Bonnie HuntSarah Whittle
    • Jonathan HydeSamuel Alan Parrish / Van Pelt
    • Bebe NeuwirthNora Shepherd
    • David Alan GrierCarl Bentley
    • Adam Hann-ByrdYoung Alan
    • Patricia ClarksonCarol Anne Parrish
    • Laura Bell BundyYoung Sarah

    Recommendations

    • 75

      San Francisco Examiner

      The result is a thrill ride with enough plunges and turns and loop-the-loops to make it worth a spin. What the picture lacks is the magic and resonance you feel in the best of popular entertainments.
    • 60

      The New York Times

      Eschewing warm, cuddly imagery just as Mr. Van Allsburg's book does, the film affects a strange, artificial style that has the invasive weirdness of "Gremlins" but none of the charm.
    • 60

      Empire

      On a scene by scene basis, it is mostly great fun but suffers from a contrived script which repetitively drags characters back to the eponymous magical board game for another effect-producing throw of the dice.
    • 58

      Entertainment Weekly

      Jumanji is cardboard Spielberg, a B-movie scrap heap of spare parts lifted from "Jurassic Park" and "Gremlins" and "Back to the Future".
    • 50

      ReelViews

      Jumanji takes approximately one-hundred minutes for four people to play a board game. The result isn't much more fun or involving than watching a few friends play Monopoly.
    • 50

      San Francisco Chronicle

      As a movie, it's far from compelling. As a thrill ride, though, it's a rampaging special effects and animatronics extravaganza that will make small children cringe behind their seats.
    • 40

      Washington Post

      Williams is hardly at his comically inventive best. And the script (adapted by Chris Van Allsburg, and a string of others, from his book) pursues the least exciting avenues possible.
    • 38

      Chicago Sun-Times

      The film is a gloomy special-effects extravaganza filled with grotesque images, generating fear and despair.

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