Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle [Includes Digital Copy]

Director: Jake Kasdan Jake Kasdan

Overview

Four teenagers discover a mysterious video game from the '90s while serving detention, and are sucked into a virtual jungle when they try to play it. Transformed into various video-game characters -- a hunky explorer (Dwayne Johnson), a clever zoologist (Kevin Hart), a warrior babe (Karen Gillan), and a rotund professor (Jack Black) -- the group must trek through this strange new world if they want to survive. Directed by Jake Kasdan, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a sequel to the 1995 fantasy adventure Jumanji.

Product Details

Release Date:	03/20/2018
UPC:	0043396488526
Original Release:	2017
Rating:	PG-13
Source:	SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMT
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo, Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:59:00
Sales rank:	15,333

Special Features

Gag reel; Meet the players: a heroic cast; Attack of the Rhinos!; Journey through the jungle: the making of Jumanji

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Dwayne Johnson	Dr. Xander Bravestone
Jack Black	Professor Shelly Oberon
Kevin Hart	Moose Finbar
Karen Gillan	Ruby Roundhouse
Nick Jonas	Actor
Bobby Cannavale	Actor
Madison Iseman	Bethany
Missi Pyle	Coach Webb
Tim Matheson	Actor
Alex Wolff	Spencer
Rhys Darby	Nigel
Ser'Darius Blain	Actor
Morgan Turner	Actor
Sean Buxton	Actor
Mason Guccione	Actor
Marin Hinkle	Actor
Tracey Bonner	Actor
Najah Jackson	Actor,Actor
Natasha Parker	Actor,Bethany's Mom
Kat Altman	Actor
Maribeth Monroe	Actor
Michael Shacket	Actor
Jamie Renell	Actor
Carlease Burke	Actor
Jason New	Actor
William Tokarsky	Actor
Rohan Chand	Actor
Tait Fletcher	Actor
Steve Dunlevy	Actor,Transportation Shed Guard
Rob Mars	Actor
Henry Jackman	Composer
Colin Hanks	Actor
Jake Kasdan	Actor

Technical Credits

Chris McKenna

Scott Rosenberg

Erik Sommers

Jeff Pinkner

Jonathan Hensleigh

Jim Strain

Chris Van Allsburg

Greg Taylor

Jake Kasdan	Director,Executive Producer
Chris McKenna	Screenwriter
Scott Rosenberg	Screenwriter
Erik Sommers	Screenwriter
Jeff Pinkner	Screenwriter
William Teitler	Producer
Matthew Tolmach	Producer,Producer
Mike Weber	Executive Producer,Producer
Ted Field	Executive Producer,Producer
Dwayne Johnson	Executive Producer
David B. Householter	Executive Producer,Producer
Dany Garcia	Executive Producer,Producer
Jon Title	Sound/Sound Designer
Julian Slater	Sound/Sound Designer
Maurice K. McGuire	Camera Operator
David Luckenbach	Camera Operator
Greg Baldi	Camera Operator
Onofrio Nino Pansini	Camera Operator
Geoff Haley	Camera Operator
Nicole Abellera	Casting
Jeanne McCarthy	Casting
Oakley Lehman	Stunts
Gary Hymes	Stunts
J.D. Schwalm	Special Effects Supervisor
Paul Buckley	Special Effects Supervisor
Jonathan Hensleigh	Screenwriter
Jim Strain	Screenwriter
Chelsea Bruland	Stunts
Chris Van Allsburg	Screenwriter
Greg Taylor	Screenwriter

Editorial Reviews

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is that rare film that will put smiles on kids' faces and keep parents laughing along with them. Given that it's been 22 years since the first Jumanji movie, some parents may find themselves basking in a warm nostalgia as well. Director Jake Kasdan (Bad Teacher) effectively exploits a novel conceit when a group of four teens get magically sucked into a Jumanji video game. Once inside the game, they must return a gem to its rightful place as the eye of a giant jaguar statue in order to escape and go back home. The teens are not themselves, though; they instead take on the physical being of various avatars. For example, Bethany (Madison Iseman), a self-absorbed princess type, finds herself in the body of Professor Shelly, played by Jack Black. While this adolescent-in-adult-body trope is somewhat played out, it does offer a fair amount of quality laughs throughout. Spencer (Alex Wolff) becomes Dr. Smolder Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson), and is the first to discover that the characters have a set of strengths and weaknesses, which will pop up in a holographic display if they tap their chests. Dr. Bravestone is also the first to figure out that each character has three lives, after a hippopotamus eats Professor Shelly and he drops out of the sky a few seconds later without a scratch. This new addition to the Jumanji canon possesses not a hint of the darkness that hung over the first film. While that darkness sparked mixed critical opinions in 1995, Robin Williams led the movie to a domestic gross of 100 million dollars, which was a resounding success at the time. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle doesn't have just one top-tier star; rather, it takes the ensemble route by giving equal time to Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Karen Gillan (playing Ruby Roundhouse), and Kevin Hart (playing Moose Finbar). The chemistry of the group strikes an endearing tone that solidly fuses playfulness and empathy. Inasmuch as Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle wears its modest ambitions on its sleeve, it succeeds nicely at those. At a minute shy of two hours, the film is a bit overlong, yet it maintains enough momentum to mitigate this issue for the most part. Each of the players in the central ensemble delivers a respectable journeyman performance, with Jack Black shining just a little brighter than the others. There are plenty of legitimate laughs, and even a few decent action scenes. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a light film. It doesn't do anything spectacular, but what it wants to do, it does well. Families looking to fill the hours over these next couple of holiday weeks could do much worse than spending an afternoon with this movie.