b.c. cartoon land of the free home of the brave johnny hart

At first, it seems like a lovely speech that tells a teenage girl that she has value because of who she is as a person. At one point, Jack Black's character gives a pep talk to Karen Gillan's character about confidence. Bobby Canavale's villain character is strange in a strange way, rather than strange in a cool way. With all the funny lines, the best one comes when at one point someone asks a video game character in a car 'why can't you just drive us where we need to go?' At that moment I realized that this movie knows exactly what it is. Setting much of the film in a video game also excused an exceedingly simple plot. He's at the point now that he can still be wonderful and charming, even if the movie around him falls woefully flat (shout out to Baywatch). Johnson is equal parts funny and charming to such an obscene level that it almost doesn't make sense. Jack Black should be in more funny movies. You have to tolerate a bit of ridiculous.ĭwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, and Jack Black all deliver in their roles. I understand that the last sentence sounds ridiculous. Each star in the movie plays the embodiment of an avatar assumed by the high school kids after they are sucked into the Jumanji video game. She even nails the necessary nuances required in playing a shy, unconfident student who is merely inhabiting the avatar of the female badass. Gillan plays a powerful female badass exceptionally well. The intentions were good the execution, not so much. This scene is well done and could have made a worthy statement if the movie did not proceed to display her booty in the short shorts at multiple junctures throughout the film. 'Why am I wearing short shorts in the jungle?!' she exclaims. The film earnestly attempts to comment on how video games exploit female characters in blatantly sexual ways. Also perfectly 2018, the handling of Karen Gillan's short shorts. This change not only made sense, it also opened the doors for the characters to possess and exhibit wildly over-the-top skills and physical abilities that would only make sense in a video game setting.

No one plays board games anymore, so what did the filmmakers do? They changed Jumanji into a video game. This movie is pure fun! Actually, it's more than fun it's clever and perfectly 2018. The steady and impressive box office success is well-deserved.

B.c. cartoon land of the free home of the brave johnny hart