Review of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) by Viniciusbrito — 25 Mar 2018

The sequence that isn't much related with the other one, you can easily watch this one without even knowing about his predecessor. When 4 very different teenagers end up in detention for some reason, to spend time they decide to play an old video game that was in the room, a different video game that actually puts them inside of the game, living the story living and being the characters that was choosed by them. One of the better things that the movie got, is how different her characters and their abilities are from they real selves, like they are forced to learn and to experience things from a different perspective.

The movie tries to simulate a video-game in every aspect, and I can say that they are kind of successfully with it, how they impersonate npc's, in an old way but it is fun how they keep repeating what they say until someone do something, and how every character have skills and weakness, how one is needed to complete certain section of the game and they are necessary dependent from the others, like only one can read the map and know where to go and other that can carry stuff for example, did liked to how they had limited lifes, and giving a urgency sense that if they die in the game, they would also die in the real life.

The acting is very good, The Rock did a great job interpreting a introverted nerd, with his insecurity and look, you could really imagine that he was that teenager, Dwayne also have a pretty good comic time. Kevin Hart is surely the funnier one here, in the matter of playing the same character that we did saw before he isn't that good, he does pretty much himself most of the time, but it did worked a lot, he really gonna make you laugh a bunch of times with his way of speak and his time, his character is the weakest and only work for support and Kevin work with it in a great way. Jack Black plays a girl that is very hot and she knows that, that put a bunch of boys in her feet, post a lot on instagram to get likes, she thinks that she is the owner of the world, this kind of girl, the way that he did it is simply great, Jack Black being a party girl is hilarious, the way that he talks and act like her are all gorgeous, the development during the movie also was very good the way that he hold. Finally Karen Gillan, her character was also a introverted girl that didn't like much people, neither to talk to anyone, I loved how she portrayed her, and how embarrassed she was, in some moments it's needed she to use her prettiness to achieve something, considering that her character is shy, she did a fun and very well done job.

I like that the movie have a precept that we only have one life to spend, and we gotta do and be what we want, without being scared or afraid, the question is how you gonna live. This is quoted a few times, but it worked for me, I liked.

It is very superficial and very repetitive. Thoose stereotypes that a nerd is always a guy that can't talk, don't have friends and does not fit, or that the football dude is a guy that don't talk with other people that aren't to cool for him, doesn't please me, I believe that it isn't the time for those things anymore.

I could say that the movie have very bad CGI, but if you consider that it emulates a video game it makes completely sense, could also say that the story is bad and simply in a tremendous way(wich could make us bored), but a lot of video games are like that to, with simply villains and simply dialogues, considering that the game turns in the 90's. The movie works because it doesn't took itself seriously, and critic a bunch of things and nothing offends. But it is a fun movie that you possibly gonna laugh and have a fun time.