Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

That nod to Alan Parish made me wish that Robin Williams was still alive.
 
Broseph44 said:
I saw this recently and had a blast with it. Some hysterical moments and it was a lot of fun. Sometimes you need to just shut off your brain and enjoy dumb fun not every film needs to be a cinematic masterpiece.
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Exactly, and it's great when you watch a movie not knowing anything about it (never heard of the game) and it turns out to be entertaining fun. It gets a 6/10 from me.

The film was also for me a nice callback to the days when I used to be into console gaming.
 
Finally got around to seeing this. While it was better than I expected, I have absolutely no idea why this movie made the amount of money that it did. While the film has its fun moments (basically everything Jack Black), overall it's mediocre filmmaking to a t. Most of the problems that other derided Sony releases (Ghostbusters, ASM, Goosebumps, Pixels) have, Jumanji has as well. What amazes me is how similar all of their films look and feel. It's kind of uncanny.

6/10 at most.
 
This is one of those movies that I'll never understand how it made so much money at the box office. I didn't hate it by any means it was an amusing re-imagining of a movie I'd seen as a child.. but still $950m & it's still actually showing albeit 1 showing a day in a few cinemas near me.

Mind boggling to me how this has made so much. Is it The Rock? Is it Kevin Hart? Is it the 2 of them combined? Is it the Jumanji name? I don't know what it is because while I found the movie enjoyable enough, I didn't find it $950m enjoyable if that makes sense.
 
B said:
This is one of those movies that I'll never understand how it made so much money at the box office. I didn't hate it by any means it was an amusing re-imagining of a movie I'd seen as a child.. but still $950m & it's still actually showing albeit 1 showing a day in a few cinemas near me.

Mind boggling to me how this has made so much. Is it The Rock? Is it Kevin Hart? Is it the 2 of them combined? Is it the Jumanji name? I don't know what it is because while I found the movie enjoyable enough, I didn't find it $950m enjoyable if that makes sense.
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It was nostalgia mixed with The Rock mixed with the comedy element mixed with Star Wars: The Last Jedi being polarizing among people and not having the legs that The Force Awakens did.
 
Elayis said:
Finally got around to seeing this. While it was better than I expected, I have absolutely no idea why this movie made the amount of money that it did. While the film has its fun moments (basically everything Jack Black), overall it's mediocre filmmaking to a t. Most of the problems that other derided Sony releases (Ghostbusters, ASM, Goosebumps, Pixels) have, Jumanji has as well. What amazes me is how similar all of their films look and feel. It's kind of uncanny.

6/10 at most.
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I will disagree with lumping it in with Ghostbusters, Pixels, and especially ASM. While it is definitely a big dumb studio product, it goes about it in a relatively clever way. It actually reminds me of '80s comedies more than the original Jumanji. Big is obviously an influence, but some of the less "classic" ones too, more precisely something like Weird Science or War Games.

Here is a silly wish fulfillment story for teens with a high concept body swapping premise that is really well executed. The movie delivers on its inane concept and pays it off in nearly every scene very well. Seeing The Rock and Kevin Hart play against type, Jack Black allowed to steal any scene he has a line in, and Karen Gillan be (heh) undoubtedly very popular with the teen audience the movie is courting all play to the movie's premise and strengths. It is a pretty well rounded crowd pleaser, and one I'd put closer to 7.5/10, but in a crowded theater it plays higher than that when everyone is laughing.

Whereas Pixels and Ghostbusters (2016) didn't really know what they wanted to be and the former went about that with a palpable detached laziness. ASM is also just a mess of a million cooks.

Jumanji reminds me that if you make a simple crowd-pleaser that has a sharp focus on what its appeal is, it can be much more gratifying than half-assed franchise and "shared universe" builders like Ghostbusters, both Amazing Spider-Mans, The Mummys, most of the DCEU, etc.
 
Elayis said:
Reminds me of Jurassic World.
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Actually that is apt as Jurassic World knew exactly what it was and delivered. But I enjoyed Jumanji more, because it didn't pretend to be epic or was obsessed with sequel-baiting like World. Jumanji lacked any pretension, but wasn't heartless about it, like say, Baywatch or many of the Rock's other films.
 
It's similar to Jurassic World I guess. Even though the original Jumanji was nowhere near as huge as Jurassic Park, it still did pretty well, even holding its own against Toy Story when it opened. The original movie still found its fans, and that was partially a reason for this one's success. But unlike Jurassic World, this one strayed far from the plot of the original film and really made this its own thing.
 
Drizzle said:
The original movie still found its fans, and that was partially a reason for this one's success.
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I don't think the success of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle has much to do with the original Jumanji. The original didn't hit it big from theatrical earnings and it gained a following only after it hit home media and I suspect that the original movie had little to no influence on people's minds who were already going to watch the movie or those who were in the fence. Jumanji 2 didn't exactly have a great opening at the DBO. It opened above tracking and made it to a decent OW but WoM was responsible for the bulk of it's final domestic gross. I mean the 3 day FSS is just 8.9% of the domestic cume. That's frikkin kkrazzy. If folks were indeed nostalgic about the the original, then surely the sequel/reboot would have opened to higher numbers, no?? The OW was pretty much par for the course for an ensemble family movie during the holidays. The multiplier for Jumanji 2 off of it's 3 day OW is a mind boggling 11.2 (the makeshift but closer to accurate multiplier is 9.1 tho) is unreal for a sequel/reboot since those tend to fizzle out quicker than premier concepts/franchise starters. So Jumanji 2 basically played like a fresh/original movie otherwise it wouldn't have made it's way to 400 million+ at the DBO.
 
B said:
Is it The Rock? Is it Kevin Hart? Is it the 2 of them combined? Is it the Jumanji name? I don't know what it is because while I found the movie enjoyable enough, I didn't find it $950m enjoyable if that makes sense.
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The Rock and Kevin Hart is a winning combination. Central Intelligence which starred both of them was the 2nd biggest original movie of 2016. Which goes to show the star power for both of them when they are in a movie which happens to be right in their wheelhouse. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle as a concept was very conducive for a Rock & Hart combination to make the BO go ka-ching. :D :D

The movie had an entertaining premise (body swapping gimmick) with marketable stars (which takes care of the OW) and at the end of the day the movie was extremely enjoyable where all the principal cast members brought their A-game. I absolutely loved it and it was one of my best experiences in a movie theater.
 
Blitzkrieg said:
I don't think the success of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle has much to do with the original Jumanji.
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Hence why I said partially. The original film still has its fans.
 
DACrowe said:
I will disagree with lumping it in with Ghostbusters, Pixels, and especially ASM. While it is definitely a big dumb studio product, it goes about it in a relatively clever way. It actually reminds me of '80s comedies more than the original Jumanji. Big is obviously an influence, but some of the less "classic" ones too, more precisely something like Weird Science or War Games.

Here is a silly wish fulfillment story for teens with a high concept body swapping premise that is really well executed. The movie delivers on its inane concept and pays it off in nearly every scene very well. Seeing The Rock and Kevin Hart play against type, Jack Black allowed to steal any scene he has a line in, and Karen Gillan be (heh) undoubtedly very popular with the teen audience the movie is courting all play to the movie's premise and strengths. It is a pretty well rounded crowd pleaser, and one I'd put closer to 7.5/10, but in a crowded theater it plays higher than that when everyone is laughing.

Whereas Pixels and Ghostbusters (2016) didn't really know what they wanted to be and the former went about that with a palpable detached laziness. ASM is also just a mess of a million cooks.

Jumanji reminds me that if you make a simple crowd-pleaser that has a sharp focus on what its appeal is, it can be much more gratifying than half-assed franchise and "shared universe" builders like Ghostbusters, both Amazing Spider-Mans, The Mummys, most of the DCEU, etc.
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My comparison was mostly about their visual similarities, as well as superficial plot elements. There's a generic mediocrity that pervades all of Sony's movies almost like a cancer. Maybe it's because all of their VFX are done in-house. I definitely prefer Jumanji to any other recent Sony blockbuster.

DACrowe said:
Actually that is apt as Jurassic World knew exactly what it was and delivered. But I enjoyed Jumanji more, because it didn't pretend to be epic or was obsessed with sequel-baiting like World. Jumanji lacked any pretension, but wasn't heartless about it, like say, Baywatch or many of the Rock's other films.
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Again, I agree. Jurassic World is garbage, and it doesn't hurt that I was never a big fan of the franchise in the first place.
 
Kane52630 said:
Just wild.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/studio/chart/?studio=sony.htm
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Elayis said:
My comparison was mostly about their visual similarities, as well as superficial plot elements. There's a generic mediocrity that pervades all of Sony's movies almost like a cancer. Maybe it's because all of their VFX are done in-house. I definitely prefer Jumanji to any other recent Sony blockbuster.



Again, I agree. Jurassic World is garbage, and it doesn't hurt that I was never a big fan of the franchise in the first place.
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Heh, while I agree the CGI is mediocre in Jumanji, the movie is fun and self-contained. That is old fashioned and refreshing.

By comparison I saw Rampage yesterday... and that is the very definition of mediocre. Loud, obnoxious, over-produced and also ridden with subpar CGI but none of the charm to make that easy to ignore.

I'll give it this: the final fight scene was amusing. But not enough to make up for how bland everything else was (Jeffrey Dean Morgan notwithstanding). Weirdly, I didn't connect it until this post, but it strangely makes me appreciate what they pulled off with Jumanji more. Because Rampage is only a hair's breath above being truly bad.
 
Rampage kind of interested me, in a Kull the Conqueror sort-of-way. But some of the CGI looked dreadfu,l and I've never liked anything Brad Peyton's done before (though Journey 2 is quite similar to Jumanji).
 
Finally saw the film and it was fun! Decent successor to the original. Though in the sequel I would like to see some of the characters from the original show up and give us just a bit more mythology.
 
Just saw this. Enjoyed it a lot and can see why it's done so well.
 
I thought that this film was a pleasant surprise. Definitely one of the better recent films to come out of Sony.
 
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