{"id":12176,"date":"2018-04-13T18:44:19","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T22:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12176"},"modified":"2019-06-25T19:15:50","modified_gmt":"2019-06-25T23:15:50","slug":"jumanji-welcome-to-the-jungle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/04\/jumanji-welcome-to-the-jungle\/","title":{"rendered":"Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle"},"content":{"rendered":"

{3.5\/5} “Does ‘phone’ mean something different in the future?”<\/p>\n

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle<\/strong>, released in 2017<\/p>\n

Four high school kids in detention come across a Jumanji video game. When they start to play it they’re sucked into the world of the game. They don’t look like themselves any more — they look like the characters they chose. And they all have unique strengths and weaknesses. It seems like they’ll have to finish the game to get back to real life — but what happens if they die in the game?<\/p>\n

This movie is disappointingly mediocre. Normally I don’t watch movies like this to the end. For some reason I kept saying to myself, “Something interesting must be about to happen.”<\/p>\n

It’s intermittently amusing, and the whole video game aspect was quite clever.<\/p>\n

Stars Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, and Karen Gillan. Directed by Jake Kasdan (Zero Effect<\/strong><\/a>). The music by Henry Jackman didn’t stand out.<\/p>\n

The rating for this movie on IMDb is inflated (other inflated ratings include the Star Wars<\/strong> prequels and the Pirates of the Caribbean<\/strong> sequels). In particular, the number of people who gave it 10\/10 is startling — I’m guessing those people have a very different sense of humour than me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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