Synopsis
Four teenagers in detention discover an old video game console with a game they’ve never heard of. When they decide to play, they are immediately sucked into the jungle world of Jumanji in the bodies of their avatars. They’ll have to complete the adventure of their lives filled with fun, thrills and danger or be stuck in the game forever!
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Cast
- Dwayne JohnsonDr. Smolder Bravestone
- Kevin HartFranklin 'Mouse' Finbar
- Jack BlackProfessor Sheldon 'Shelly' Oberon
- Karen GillanRuby Roundhouse
- Rhys DarbyNigel Billingsley
- Bobby CannavaleVan Pelt
- Nick JonasJefferson 'Seaplane' McDonough
- Alex WolffYoung Spencer Gilpin
- Ser'Darius BlainYoung Anthony 'Fridge' Johnson
- Madison IsemanYoung Bethany Walker
Recommendations
- 80
Screen Daily
It’s an entertaining, engaging, colourful picture in its own right with decently-handled action-adventure set-pieces and sly comedy, detouring from the expected thrills and spills into body-hopping comedy drama. - 75
TheWrap
Jumanji: Welcome to The Jungle is the Christmas tentpole release that aims to please and succeeds, a funny family entertainment product that subverts more expectations than it was obligated to contractually. - 70
IGN
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle brings audiences back to its classic fictional world with a fun, updated new twist on its well-worn story. So even if some of its subplots and emotional throughlines don’t quite click, the action-packed fun and humor should still make it worth your price of admission. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
The film's main appeal is in watching familiar actors pretend to be ordinary kids grappling with their new selves. - 65
Vanity Fair
The film strikes a nice balance between serviceable, not-overly-slick action scenes—we’ve come a long way from those shoddily animated monkeys—and comedy that’s actually rooted in character, rather than cheap references or stereotypes. - 60
The Guardian
It’s a likeable film which borrows liberally from everything and everyone, and if it’s put together by numbers, well, then it is done capably enough. - 50
IndieWire
The mildly amusing Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is further proof that even the stalest whiff of brand recognition has become preferable to originality. Only part of the blame for that belongs to the studios, but after cannibalizing themselves for much of the last 20 years, Hollywood has clearly eaten their way down to the crumbs. - 50
Entertainment Weekly
Welcome to the Jungle isn’t a bad movie. It’s a diverting, mildly amusing, competent bit of big-budget studio product. And maybe those are the stakes we’re now playing for these days.
