1995 · fantasy · adventure · family
Jumanji
Directed by Joe Johnston1h 44m1995
When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures.
Our read: Jumanji (1995) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive fantasy · adventure · family entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, measured fantasy / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- intense
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