Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

[Kane52630]

"Being an actress is super hard..."

 

[samsnee]

So it looks like the official title is Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and it's a video game, not a board game. It sounds a bit more juvenile than the original movie.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-footage-from-jumanji-is-surprisingly-very-fun-1793716167

It starts with four high school kids going to detention. Their punishment is to clean the basement of the school, but while down there, they find a very odd-looking old video game system. Yes, Jumanji is no longer a board game. They turn it on and each student (the nerd, the jock, the pretty girl, and the quiet girl) picks a character to play as. After they select, they are sucked into the jungle. The nerd turns out to be Dwayne Johnson, the jock is Kevin Hart, the quiet girl is Karen Gillan, and the pretty girl is Jack Black. That last bit, of course, is played for a lot of yuks.

They realize that, because they are in a video game, they each have video game powers. For example, Johnson’s character is super strong and Gillan’s character is a dance fighter, which they joke about. And also, she very quickly acknowledges how ridiculous it is that the game makes her outfit so skimpy. A kind of guide character tells them they have to place a jewel back into a statue to leave—but as they progress, the challenges get greater and greater. Killer animals, evil men on motorcycles, just lots of crazy stuff. And, like a video game, they each have three lives. If they lose those, they die for real.


The whole thing has a kind of Indiana Jones for kids vibe. Lots of jungle settings, lots of action, running and jumping. Slow motion fights, flame throwers, machine guns. We meet Nick Jonas’ character who seems to know his way around really well. Later we see him flying a helicopter with the main characters on it, through a canyon that has a hippo stampede happening. One of those hippos eats the Jack Black character in another scene, seemingly taking one of his/her lives.

Oh, and at one point, the guide character mentions someone who spent a good portion of time in the game. Someone named Alan Parrish—aka, Robin Williams’ character from the first movie.

 

[terry78]

So the ****ing thing evolves over time? That's kinda creepy.

 

[Lencho01]

Hmm...

 

[MOVIELORD101]

So it looks like the official title is Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, and it's a video game, not a board game. It sounds a bit more juvenile than the original movie.

http://io9.gizmodo.com/the-first-footage-from-jumanji-is-surprisingly-very-fun-1793716167

This sounds really cool, actually. AND it actually sounds funny!

 

[Galactus10]

Sounds kinda crappy.

we already saw the little Rock, Kevin Hart switch archetypes gimmick.

 

[Kane52630]

The nerd turns out to be Dwayne Johnson, the jock is Kevin Hart,

Literally Central Intelligence...

 

[DadaLaLaLa]

So they had a chance to do something cool but it sounds like they butchered it is Sony making this movie ?

 

[Kane52630]

Yeah it's Sony alright.

 

[DadaLaLaLa]

Yeah it's Sony alright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw3LDjx__5w

 

[A Necessary Evil]

Shockingly enough, this sounds awful

 

[chamber-music]

Yeah it's Sony alright.

Sony gonna Sony.

 

[chaseter]

See 'Will Sony be around by 2020' thread.

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Movie sounds laughable.

 

[Wildcard]

I'm calling it now: this is gonna bomb.

 

[smallville fan]

I'm calling it now: this is gonna bomb.

Movie sounds laughable.

Shockingly enough, this sounds awful

So they had a chance to do something cool but it sounds like they butchered it is Sony making this movie ?

Sounds kinda crappy.

we already saw the little Rock, Kevin Hart switch archetypes gimmick.

I dunno guys, I mean this sounds like it's just as goofy and in the same vein as the Goosebumps movie which Sony did btw. So I think there'll be fun to have with it?

 

[terry78]

I would like to plunk down 20 Hype dollars as a wager that says this thing becomes a surprise hit.

 

[Drizzle]

The only thing keeping me from saying this will bomb is that Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart are in it. People eat them up.

Wait. I forgot about The Last Jedi opening the week before this. One would think that would be an automatic death sentence, but Daddy's Home survived against The Force Awakens so who knows...

 

[The Guard]

It kind of sounds like a mixture of JUMANJI with something like PITFALL.

 

[smallville fan]

I'm going to say that this is just another Goosebumps movie with Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart. So I think we know what to expect.

 

[DJ Kornphlake]

Basically, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle looks like dumb fun, a good mix of action and laughs with a really great cast.

That works well enough for me.

 

[samsnee]

If they make a sequel, it should be how people watched the first one, then played the video game adaptation of the movie, and get sucked in.

 

[CaptainWagner]

The premise sounds fun and the cast is really talented, so I'm looking forward to this. It's not going to be anything groundbreaking, but it should be fun.

 

[Wildcard]

I dunno guys, I mean this sounds like it's just as goofy and in the same vein as the Goosebumps movie which Sony did btw. So I think there'll be fun to have with it?

Ghostbusters was a flop, though.

 

[LoganPool]

Dwayne Johnson promised they would "honor" and "immortalize" Robin Williams character from the original... as long as they do that, I'm in. I don't care what the rest of the movie is like.