I mostly enjoyed it, but the second it ended, if you were to quiz me on anything that happened, I would fail with flying colours. A re-watch of Johnston’s original last week confirmed the feelings of my younger self. It was decent enough filler made on a large budget. Other than some fleeting memories of rampaging animals destroying things I couldn’t remember much about it. I say that I think I enjoyed it because I never remembered disliking it. I was more or less the appropriate age to properly enjoy the original Jumanji upon its initial release, and I think I did. It’s looked back upon with great nostalgia and fondness today, but I wonder how many people remember the experience of seeing Jumanji in the theatre more than they remember the film itself. The tale of kids who unleashed monstrous wild animals (and an almost feral Robin Williams) upon their unsuspecting home town via an enchanted board game became a cornerstone in the history of 90s kiddie cinema. ![]() ![]() In 1995, director Joe Johnston’s loose and almost unrecognizable adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s award winning children’s book Jumanji was relatively unloved by critics, but was a box office smash as far as the general public was concerned.
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