2021 · fantasy · comedy · adventure
Jungle Cruise
Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra2h 7m2021
Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.
Our read: Jungle Cruise (2021) reads as a warm, breathless, inventive fantasy · comedy · adventure entry — gentle in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, breathless, gentle fantasy / comedy, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, measured.
- warm
- kinetic
- gentle
- redemptive
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