Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
A movie that really has no right being as good as it is... This review is also up on Channel 24 What it's about During detention, four high-schoolers come across Jumanji, an old video game that quickly proves to be something far more than that as they are transported into the game itself where, in the form of the “avatars” they picked, they will need to save the jungle-word of Jumanji by returning a stolen mystical gem to its proper place, if they are to ever return to the real world. What we thought I enjoyed the original Jumanji film when it came out in the mid 1990s but I would be lying if I said it ever stayed with me in the way that many of my favourite movies from my youth did. It was no Star Wars, Back to the Future or Jurassic Park, that's for sure. I find it hard to believe, however, that even the film's biggest fans, those to whom it is their Empire Strikes Back, were clamouring for a sequel. Certainly not twenty-two-years later, without any ...