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Jumanji: The Next Level - Movie Review


World of Jumanji

Jumanji was first introduced to us in 1981 with Robbin Williams as a board game. The premise a player would enter the game world just by playing the game. The game characters could also enter our world when played. In 2005, the franchise was expanded to include Zathura the space version of the world. In 2017 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, the game was found again but realizing it was outdated as a board game, the board game changed during the movie to become a video game with Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, and Kevin Hart as the games avatars.

The 2017 was received so well, Jumanji: The Next Level was released in 2019 bringing back Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, and Kevin Hart as the games avatars. I highly suspect there will be a future installment of the movie so I am just reviewing the current movie in this post.

Review

The movie was good but I felt the first was a little better. I think I laughed more at my son watching the movie than I did at the movie itself. I enjoyed seeing Dwayne, Jack, Karen, and Kevin show their range as they portrayed different people from the real world. The movie is predictable but in a good way. Adding Danny DeVito and Danny Glover to the cast made for some funny scenes. This is a nice family friendly comedy that everyone should enjoy.

Rating

I would rate this a HD movie. It is worth getting for under $10 especially if you have one or more of the other movies in the franchise. I bought my UHD copy for $12 at UltraCloudHD.

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