JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE
Hello everyone, I’m Nhat Minh from Ngo Si Lien 7C1, welcome to my second movie review. If you are a person, who love adventerous films, “JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE” can be your good choice.
“JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE” is a 2017 American fantasy adventerous comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, co-written by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner and starring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, and Bobby Cannavale.
As the characters:
-Dwayne Johnson as Spencer Gilpin / Dr. Xander “Smolder” Bravestone: An intelligent, but unconfident and neurotic high school student. In Jumanji, he is transformed into a strong, confident archaeologist and explorer.
-Alex Wolff as Spencer in the real world
-Kevin Hart as Anthony “Fridge” Johnson / Franklin “Mouse” Finbar: A high school football player whose friendship with Spencer has deteriorated due to their different social statuses. In Jumanji, he is transformed into a diminutive, weak, slow zoologist and weapons carrier
-Ser’Darius Blain as Fridge in the real world.
-Jack Black as Bethany Walker / Professor Sheldon “Shelly” Oberon: A popular and vain high school student. In Jumanji, she is transformed into an overweight, male cartographer and expert in many scientific fields
-Madison Iseman as Bethany in the real world.
And there’re more characters in this film.
Now I will tell you about the plot of the movie:
In Brantford, New Hampshire, in 1996, teenager Alex Vreeke’s father finds Jumanji board game on a beach and brings it home to him. Uninterested, Alex sets it aside, but finds it transformed into a video game cartridge after being entranced by the game’s drum beats later that night. Opting to play the game, he finds himself sucked inside upon choosing a character. His disappearance results in his family’s house to become known as ‘Freak house’ also due to its neglected appearance.
Twenty years later, in 2016, four Brantford High School students – Martha Kaply, Bethany Walker, Spencer Gilpin and Anthony “Fridge” Johnson – are sent to clean up the school’s basement as detention for their behaviour. While serving it, Fridge discovers Alex’s discarded video-game system, which he and Spencer decide to play, encouraging the girls to join them. While picking playable characters, they are unable to select the first one, instead choosing the other four. Upon starting the game, each is sucked into Jumanji, landing within a jungle in the forms of their chosen game avatars – Spencer as muscular explorer and archaeologist Dr. Smolder Bravestone; Fridge as diminutive zoologist Franklin Finbar; Martha as commando and martial arts expert Ruby Roundhouse; and Bethany as male doctor of cartography and palaeontology Professor Shelly Oberon.
While coming to terms with their situation, the group each find themselves with three marks denoting lives on their arms, with Bethany losing her first after being eaten by a hippopotamus. Spencer deduces that if they lose all three, they will die in real life. The group encounter non player character Nigel Billingsley, the game’s guide, who provides them with the game’s narrative and their characters’ backstories. The group learn that their goal is to end a curse on Jumanji, brought about by corrupt archaeologist Professor Van Pelt, after stealing a magic jewel called “the Jaguar’s Eye” from its shrine, gaining control of all the jungle’s animals. Nigel hands Spencer the jewel, after stealing it from Van Pelt, instructing the group to return it to a statue at the shrine and call out “Jumanji”, in order to “lift the curse” and leave the game, before driving off.
While coping with their avatars, their “weaknesses”, Van Pelt’s men and at one point, Spencer and Fridge’s animosity towards one another, the group encounter Alex operating the fifth avatar – pilot Jefferson McDonough – who takes them to a jungle house built by Alan Parrish, the game’s previous player. Upon realising his identity, all are equally shocked upon learning how long he has been trapped in the game, Alex having believed himself to have been trapped for merely months. With a common goal, the group vow to help Alex return home with them. Dealing with further problems while heading for the shrine, the group co-ordinate to overcome the challenges given by the game, eventually reaching the shrine, where Van Pelt has them surrounded with a pack of jaguars and his own men. Working together, while the others act as distractions, Spencer and Martha outmaneuver Van Pelt with the game’s mechanics, returning the jewel to the statue. Upon uttering the game’s name together, the group destroy Van Pelt and return home.
Returning to the school basement, the group find Alex is not with them, but are confused after leaving school to find the formerly dilapidated Vreeke home is now restored and decorated for a Christmas family gathering. The group soon find themselves greeted by Alex, now an adult, who explains he returned to 1996, thus allowing him to lead a married life with children, with one of the children named after Bethany, who saved Alex’s life in the game.
The four students become firm friends after their experiences in the game, with Spencer starting a relationship with Martha. When the group hear the drumbeats of Jumanji coming from the game cartridge, Fridge crushes it with a bowling ball to prevent anyone else from playing it.
This book is very interesting, it has both adventuring and humour. This film can be watched by people in all ages. The sound effect of this film is great. I rate this film for five over five.
If you want to watch this film’s trailer:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2QKg5SZ_35I
If you want to watch this film: http://www.phimmoi.net/phim/jumanji-tro-choi-ky-ao-i2-6364/xem-phim.html
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