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depicting Robin Williams suggest that “Jumanji” is a delightful film for the whole family to enjoy together during the festive season, and it appears that this will scare away younger kids from cinemas. Children that are old enough to watch it will probably be haunted by nightmares. The entire experience is an awful rollercoaster. Anyone that assumes this is a family movie must not have watched movies before. Even more surprising is the fact that it is suggested that children are made of stronger material than that. Gloomy special effects where all the f/x sequences throw in despair from every angle without care, only to vanish into thin air. For older audiences, there are indeed a few redeeming factors however, but what little story there is just wraps itself around the desperate f/x sequences.
This film starts in 1869, with a worker asking “what if someone digs this up?” while sturdy chest is being buried in the woods. His colleague’s response to this is chilling; “God help them!”
As we fast forward to the year nineteen hundred and sixty nine, young Alan is an inquisitive lad who comes across a chest in a construction site. The chest holds a board game called “Jumanji.” As he rolls the dice, he is entranced by the game’s overwhelming powers. As the game begins, the board pieces reposition themselves. The game delivers messages in a hauntingly spectacular manner, and Alan is assaulted by a swarm of bats.
Skipping to the present day, two children discover this game in a long-abandoned mansion. It just so happens that this is Alan’s childhood house. The moment they start the game, he appears. Wow. To think, Alan was stuck in limbo all along while Robin Williams was playing him. Whereas I am still stuck like, “Where are my mother and father?” The kids are now his friends, Peter (Bradley Pierce) and Judy (Kirsten Dunst), and together they start exploring the already ravaged world of Jumanji. With jungle terrors lurking around every corner and oh boy, do they include: lions, monkeys, rhinos, Elephants, giant insects, snakes, thunder, and, quite literally, everything. On the other hand, Alan is still dealing with a crocodile and, for some odd reason, the mansion has gotten rid of a lot of its floors so Alan is in a pool of quicksand.
Other important characters are also introduced. These include Van Pelt(Jonathan Hyde), who, like Alan, gets captured by the game, but is an antagonist in the form of a big-game hunter, Aunt Nora (Bebe Neuwirth), who presumably adopted the orphaned Judy and Peter, and Sarah(Bonnie Hunt) who, during the 1969 fateful summer afternoon in which the ‘game’ was played, is the girl who plays Jumanji with Alan and grows up to be a reclusive fortune-teller. The town ostracized her for her honesty regarding her struggles with the board game.
The central idea of the film (‘two young kids scare off Robin Williams gut’) must have sounded good on paper. However, the special effects designers have flooded the screen with an assortment of both pre and post animated special effects and as such, this film is no more appropriate for young children than say, “Jaws.” It is not enough that the young protagonists in the movie have to go through a sequence of horrifying and threatening experiences one after the other. At some point, Young Peter is transformed into a Wolf Man looking monkey and he seemingly chokes on the film’s skinny version of Lon Chaney, a hairy monkey snout and a terrifically furry face with deadly lips. Just this single example is bound to frighten children too young to understand the context of the movie. To me, it appeared as intentional and inappropriate advocacy for violence against a young innocent character.
The premise of the film appears to be shaped – or perhaps restricted by – other interactive video games. Hardly any effort is made to build a proper plot. Rather, the characters continually encounter one danger after another, with several new gruesome threats emerging from all sides. This resembles a certain kind of video game where a player advances by eliminating adversaries while. Children will find the highest achievement of this movie to be enduring to watch through the entirety of this film without any breaks.
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