I only
watched the film yesterday as the writing of this review so I'm really late in
this one. I've watched Jumanji Welcome to the Jungle so I've decided to do a
review on this one as well. Minor spoilers are in effect just to be sure.
Three
years after the event of Welcome to the Jungle each of the four characters had
gone their separate ways living except for Spence who found his time spent in
the game more meaningful than his real life one. The four decided to meet up
again but when Spence didn't show up the others decided to find him even if it
was getting back into the game Jumanji.
As an
overall story point of view Jumanji the Next level expands on the lore of the
first game by making it more fleshed out than what they did on Welcome to the
Jungle. New skills, new character avatar, new expanded areas to explore from a
desert to the ice covered mountain. The movie has some interesting plot twist
specially during the third act. Something about a certain avatar character stat
that isn't supposed to be there. I won't go into detail but you will notice it
when you see the film.
There
are also some very subtle subplots that weren't really explored about certain
villain that they showed during the third act that wasn't fully explained that
I hope will be explored in detail in the third film should they make a third
one. Jumanji the Next Level does hint of a third film in the works since the
ending was sort of a cliffhanger that is part easter egg for those familiar
with the Jumanji film by Robin Williams.
Character
wise this is pretty much what the first film was but with new characters into
play. And its nice to see the Dwayne imitate an old man for a change. His
portrayal isn't perfect but I'd admit there are some rather funny moments in
there. Jack Black is still Jack Black and his level of comedy is always fun to
see. It has double the crazy antics characters go through. It also explores on
the characters individual skills that the first film barely touched upon like
certain characters ability to solve puzzles ala Tomb Raider.
The
rest of the cast are rather good as well although some scenes and line could
probably been delivered better a little bit. Also some of the jokes didn't land
for me. Certain characters wasn't given enough time to shine for me. I didn't
get that enough of the connection to them so when it comes to the big twist it
didn't hit emotionally as hard as I wanted it to be. Also even though the music
for Jumanji the Next Level was pretty decent the music score for Welcome to the
Jungle is still on a league of its own.
If you
have watched the first film then you will enjoy the movie more as there are
jokes and scenes here that connects to the first film. You don't have to watch
the previous film to enjoy this one but it does add in the entertainment and
fun factor. The movie isn't perfect as there's some over use of cgi here and
there. This film won't win any awards but the entertainment factor is there. If
you enjoyed the sort of entertainment and fun that Jumanji Welcome the Jungle delivered
then you will find plenty of that here.
Overall
Jumanji the Next Level is a surprisingly decent follow up to Jumanji Welcome to
the Jungle expanding on the world of Jumanji, the different areas and the over
the top avatar characters. If you like the first film then you will definitely
enjoy this one to some extent. If you're not a fan of Jumanji or the previous
film than this film is definitely isn't for you.
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