Jumanji

Name: Jumanji
Genre: Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy, Family
Released: December 15, 1995
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 39
Cast: Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Robin Williams

1995

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TriStar Pictures | Release Date: December 15, 1995 | PG

Starring: Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Robin Williams

Summary: When young Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game, he doesn't realize its unimaginable powers, until he is magically transported before the startled eyes of his friend, Sarah, into the untamed jungles of Jumanji. There he remains for 26 years until he is freed from the game's spell by two unsuspecting children. [Sony]

Director: Joe Johnston

Genre(s): Adventure, Thriller, Fantasy, Family

Rating: PG

Runtime: 104 min

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Walter Addiego

The result is a thrill ride with enough plunges and turns and loop-the-loops to make it worth a spin. What the picture lacks is the magic and resonance you feel in the best of popular entertainments. Read full review

Mike Clark

Based on a popular children's book by Chris Van Allsburg and directed by that "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" guy Joe Johnston, Jumanji is a calculated but very entertaining special effects extravaganza. [15Dec1995 Pg. 01.D]

Empire Staff(not credited)

On a scene by scene basis, it is mostly great fun but suffers from a contrived script which repetitively drags characters back to the eponymous magical board game for another effect-producing throw of the dice. Read full review

Anthony Lane

The movie takes time to warm up, it weakens into soppiness at the end, and the game itself, if you think it through, makes very little sense. Read full review

Desson Thomson

Williams is hardly at his comically inventive best. And the script (adapted by Chris Van Allsburg, and a string of others, from his book) pursues the least exciting avenues possible. Read full review

Rita Kempley

The script boasts more writers than the computerized menagerie's got megabytes, but they haven't come up with much variety or humor in what is essentially a string of catastrophes. Read full review

Richard Corliss

Director Joe Johnston's elaborately dressed kids' movie--about a board game that sucks its players into a perilous jungle overrun by lions, rhinos, monkeys, crocodiles and spiders--spends so much time on the how of special effects that it neglects the why of characterization. Read full review

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danielb1982

Sep 29, 2011

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I consider this movie as one of my all time favourite movies, and also Robin Williams as one of my favourite actors.

This is the story of Alan Parish who finds a board game, which unknown to him releases the inhabititants of the game, depending on the role of the dice.
While playing the game with a girl called Sarah from his street, they both decide to stop playing the game, but Alan un-wittingly throws the dice, and the game punishes him, by sucking him into the game with the message ' In the jungle you must wait, till the dice reads five or eight'.
Many years later Judy & Peter who have moved into Alans house, find the game, and begin playing it, and Peter eventually throws an eight, thus releasing alan from the game.
What follows in an action paced film, with great special effects.

If you want to watch a great film then get this one.… Expand

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iliescu

Dec 18, 2020

Has style and class plus the game can be purchase at most hobby stores in these areas.

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lukechristiansc

May 4, 2015

An epic adventure with Robin Williams is just what the kids need! it's a extravaganza movie with a solid cast and a marvelous script. Grade B+ (WATCH THIS!)

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

patrickd.

Nov 12, 2005

It was good! I used to love this movie!

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Guzzle

Jul 10, 2021

39?? What the hell is wrong with y’all?? This was my **** as a kid! Now that I’m an adult, I can see it has a few problems but you can still show it to your kids and they’ll like it, it still holds up man (but not the CG on the animals, that **** aged like milk).

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Jboy2468

May 3, 2012

Jumanji is a movie that revolves around a board game in which your rolls change and possibly destroy the environment around you. This idea is excellent. But, Jumanji didn't make me feel the intensity that it could have shown. I think this movie would have been a masterpiece if it wasn'tJumanji is a movie that revolves around a board game in which your rolls change and possibly destroy the environment around you. This idea is excellent. But, Jumanji didn't make me feel the intensity that it could have shown. I think this movie would have been a masterpiece if it wasn't aimed toward a young audience. It's something that could have been dramatic and tense, not humurous. If you decide to avoid this issue, other plotlines such as a history of the game's affect on people will make you love this movie. Overall a good movie worth an encore!… Expand

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EpicLadySponge

Apr 30, 2016

Dull special effects make this movie look dated. Jumnaji is aged pretty bad right now. Watch Zathura because it's better than Jumnaji in any way because it's still aged great.

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