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Principal photography began in Hawaii in September 2016. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle premiered at the Grand Rex in Paris on December 5, 2017 and is scheduled to be released in the United States in 3D on December 20, 2017
In 1996, teenager Alex Vreeke receives the original Jumanji
board game after his father finds it while jogging on a beach, but puts
it aside, dismissively noting that nobody plays board games anymore,
instead playing a video game involving motorcycles. Overnight, the game
changes so that the box's contents are now a video game cartridge, but
when Alex puts it in his console and turns it on, he vanishes.
Twenty years later, high school student Spencer Gilpin is sent to detention for helping his former best friend, Anthony "Fridge" Johnson, with his homework by writing Fridge's essays for him. They are joined by Bethany Walker, a beautiful girl who was caught talking on her phone during a quiz, and Martha Kaply, a socially awkward girl who objected to being made to participate in gym class. For detention, they are charged by Principal Bentley with removing the staples from discarded magazines in an old storage area, but Spencer discovers the console containing the Jumanji game and convinces the others to play it with him. They are unable to access one of the five-player options, a pilot, but once all four others have been selected, the game draws them all inside it.
Finding themselves in a jungle, all four are shaken to realize that they have become the avatars they chose for the game, with the result that Fridge is now a short zoologist, Bethany is now an overweight middle-aged man, Martha is a beautiful athletic woman, and Spencer is a muscular, tough man. Bethany is suddenly eaten by a hippopotamus that emerges from the river, but she swiftly reappears after falling out of the sky.
Fleeing from a stampede of hippos, the group encounter Nigel, whose repetitive responses help Spencer identify him as an NPC (non-player character) who tells them that they have come to Jumanji (in the context of the game) in response to a letter Nigel wrote to Spencer's avatar. The letter explains that Nigel was part of an expedition by explorer John Hardin Van Pelt to claim the legendary gem, the "Jaguar's Eye", removal of the gem from the large jaguar statue granting Van Pelt control over the animals of Jumanji. In order to complete the game, the players must return the gem to the jaguar statue and call out "Jumanji".
With those instructions given, the group are dropped off outside a forest, where it is revealed that Bethany alone can read the map Nigel gave them, the map directing them to the next stage of their quest. They are subsequently attacked by Van Pelt's men on motorbikes, but manage to escape by fleeing through the trees and jumping off a cliff into a river. After emerging from the river, Martha realizes that she has been shot, but returns to the group immediately after her avatar explodes. Examining a series of line tattoos on their forearms, which originally consisted of three bars where Martha and Bethany now only have two, Spencer realizes that these bars indicate the number of lives they have in the game, guessing that they will die for good, both in the game, and in the real world as well, once they lose all three lives.
While traveling to the bazaar where they will receive their next clue, an argument between Spencer and Fridge over Fridge's perception of Spencer's role in this problem results in Fridge pushing Spencer off a cliff, costing him one of his lives. In the bazaar, Fridge loses one of his lives when he eats cake – previously identified as one of his character's weaknesses – and explodes, drawing the attention of Van Pelt's minions. Fortunately, before they are attacked, they discover their next clue hidden in a basket containing a snake, which the team are able to acquire by pooling their skills and coming together, allowing Spencer to catch the snake while Fridge defangs it. When Van Pelt's forces attack, Spencer attempts to fight them off, but they are soon confronted by Van Pelt himself, only just escaping when another player uses a smoke grenade as a distraction and leads them to a secret passage.
In his home base – which was previously occupied and built by Alan Parrish – the player explains that his name is Alex, and he was the fifth player identified on the game's selection menu. He has used up two of his lives and been unable to progress further without the others due to his limited skills, but has identified the transport shed where they will acquire the means to move on. While Bethany teaches Martha in how to flirt to distract the guards, Alex's dated references lead Spencer and Fridge to realize that he is Alex Vreeke, Alex in turn, being shocked to learn that he has been trapped in the game for over twenty years. Although Alex suffers a panic attack, the team are able to gain access to the transport shed after Martha taps into her character's strength of dance combat, subsequently helping Alex recognize that they can complete the game by working together.
There is a brief panic when damage to the helicopter traps it in a canyon in front of a rampaging herd of white rhinoceros, but Spencer is able to repair the damage and help them ascend. Unfortunately, they lose the gem when it falls out of Fridge's backpack, but Spencer is able to reclaim the gem after using Fridge as a 'sacrifice' to draw the rhino herd's attention, subsequently ordering Alex to spin the helicopter in time to catch Fridge as he 'respawns'. Once they land, Alex is stung by a mosquito and begins to die due to his avatar's weakness, but Bethany saves him by giving him CPR, which passes one of her remaining lives to him. As they prepare for their next step, Spencer and Martha admit that they have feelings for each other in the real world, while Bethany begins to bond with Alex.
Making their way to the jaguar statue, they find themselves confronted by actual jaguar guards, which cost Spencer one of his lives when he attempts to take the gem along the path to the statue alone. With Fridge's support, Spencer implements a plan where Martha takes out Van Pelt's approaching minions while the other three provide a distraction for the jaguars, leaving Spencer to take one of the minion's motorbikes and continue to the statue. Van Pelt attempts to gain the advantage by taking Bethany hostage, but Fridge is able to drive the jaguar guards away by befriending an elephant, only for the players to lose the gem when it is thrown away. While the others distract Van Pelt's minions, Spencer takes the bike to the top of the statue while Martha retrieves the gem from a pit full of snakes, using her character's weakness to venom to sacrifice her second life and 'respawn' in a position where she can pass the gem to Spencer as she falls. With this action, Spencer places the gem in the statue and calls out "Jumanji!", ending the game and restoring the jungle to peace. With this victory, Nigel appears to congratulate the group, shaking their hands and returning them to the real world.
Back in the storage room, all four detention students have returned to their true forms, but are saddened to find that Alex is not among them. As they walk home, they witness the Vreeke household – which had fallen into disrepair as Alex's parents had no answer as to his fate – has been fully restored. As a car parks outside the house to release a family, the father sees the former players and confirms that he is Alex, who emerged from the game in 1996 and changed his history, also revealing that he named his eldest daughter after Bethany.
The following week at school, Spencer and Fridge are friends once again, and Bethany is making plans to go backpacking, while Spencer and Martha start dating. When they hear the drumbeats of Jumanji, they take the console out to the back of the school and Fridge drops a bowling ball on to it, each intending that this will end the game once and for all.
In August 2015, the remake was confirmed when Sony Pictures Entertainment announced their plans to release the film on December 25, 2016.[10] Internet reception to this announcement was negative, with some posters remarking that this announcement came too soon after the death of Robin Williams who portrayed Alan Parrish from the original film.[11][12] The news was also heavily criticized by Bradley Pierce, who also from the original Jumanji as Peter Shepherd as well as E! News which stated that they felt that the remake was "unnecessary and kind of insulting".[13][14] On October 23, 2015, Scott Rosenberg was hired to rewrite the script for the film and it was the studio's high priority film to make.[15] On January 14, 2016, Deadline reported that Jake Kasdan had been hired to direct the film from a script by Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner, based on a draft by original writers, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers.[16]
On April 15, 2016, Variety reported that Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart were in early talks to star in the film, while both actors had other projects to shoot, which might have created schedule conflicts.[17] Later, Johnson confirmed his casting through his Instagram account.[18] On July 2016, it was reported that Nick Jonas had joined the film's cast along with the confirmed casting of Johnson, Hart, and Jack Black.[19] In August 2016, Johnson clarified that the film would not be a reboot, but a continuation of the 1995 film,[20] and announced that Karen Gillan had joined the cast.[21] On September 20, 2016, Ser'Darius Blain and Madison Iseman were cast in the film, with Blain playing Anthony "Fridge" Johnson, and following them on September 22, 2016, Rhys Darby, Morgan Turner, and Alex Wolff joined the cast. Darby plays Nigel, and Wolff plays Spencer.[22][23][24] In November 2016, Bobby Cannavale announced his involvement in the film.[25] In December 2016, Tim Matheson joined the cast of the film, portraying the role of Old Man Vreeke.[26]
James Newton Howard was originally attached to compose the film's score,[27] when the film's release date was pushed back half a year, he was replaced by Henry Jackman.[1]
In March 2017 during CinemaCon, it was announced that the complete title of the film would be Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. The plot was revealed to be about teenagers tasked with cleaning out a school's basement who find a vintage video game version of Jumanji and get sucked into the jungle setting of the first film. While many fans theorized whether the film was a sequel or a reboot, the second trailer, which was released on September 20, 2017, revealed that the film takes place over twenty years after the events of the first film.
On November 29, 2017, it was announced Amazon Prime members in the United States would have early access to movie tickets for a single December 8, 2017 screening of the film at select Regal, National Amusements, ArcLight Cinemas and AMC theaters.[31] The screenings ended up selling out at nearly 1,200 theaters and making around $2 million.[32]
Dave White of TheWrap praised the cast and called the film a pleasant surprise, saying, "Jumanji: Welcome to The Jungle is the Christmas tentpole release that aims to please and succeeds, a funny family entertainment product that subverts more expectations than it was obligated to contractually."[37] David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a "C" and called it unnecessary but mildly amusing: "...Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is further proof that even the stalest whiff of brand recognition has become preferable to originality. Only part of the blame for that belongs to the studios, but after cannibalizing themselves for much of the last 20 years, Hollywood has clearly eaten their way down to the crumbs."[38]
Conversely, writing for Variety, Owen Gleiberman was critical of the film, saying, "Excitement! Suspense! Childlike innocence! Ingeniously staged action set pieces! These are a few of the things you will not find, anywhere, in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle...It’s supposed to be a board game come to life, but really, it’s just a bored game.
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a 2017 American action adventure comedy film[3][5] directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Kasdan, Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner, from a story by McKenna. A standalone sequel to Jumanji (1995), the film stars Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas and Bobby Cannavale. The plot follows four teenagers who are transported into the video game world of Jumanji, and, playing as the characters they chose, must beat the game in order to return to the real world. The film is also a tribute to Robin Williams, star of the original film, who died in 2014.[6]Principal photography began in Hawaii in September 2016. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle premiered at the Grand Rex in Paris on December 5, 2017 and is scheduled to be released in the United States in 3D on December 20, 2017
Twenty years later, high school student Spencer Gilpin is sent to detention for helping his former best friend, Anthony "Fridge" Johnson, with his homework by writing Fridge's essays for him. They are joined by Bethany Walker, a beautiful girl who was caught talking on her phone during a quiz, and Martha Kaply, a socially awkward girl who objected to being made to participate in gym class. For detention, they are charged by Principal Bentley with removing the staples from discarded magazines in an old storage area, but Spencer discovers the console containing the Jumanji game and convinces the others to play it with him. They are unable to access one of the five-player options, a pilot, but once all four others have been selected, the game draws them all inside it.
Finding themselves in a jungle, all four are shaken to realize that they have become the avatars they chose for the game, with the result that Fridge is now a short zoologist, Bethany is now an overweight middle-aged man, Martha is a beautiful athletic woman, and Spencer is a muscular, tough man. Bethany is suddenly eaten by a hippopotamus that emerges from the river, but she swiftly reappears after falling out of the sky.
Fleeing from a stampede of hippos, the group encounter Nigel, whose repetitive responses help Spencer identify him as an NPC (non-player character) who tells them that they have come to Jumanji (in the context of the game) in response to a letter Nigel wrote to Spencer's avatar. The letter explains that Nigel was part of an expedition by explorer John Hardin Van Pelt to claim the legendary gem, the "Jaguar's Eye", removal of the gem from the large jaguar statue granting Van Pelt control over the animals of Jumanji. In order to complete the game, the players must return the gem to the jaguar statue and call out "Jumanji".
With those instructions given, the group are dropped off outside a forest, where it is revealed that Bethany alone can read the map Nigel gave them, the map directing them to the next stage of their quest. They are subsequently attacked by Van Pelt's men on motorbikes, but manage to escape by fleeing through the trees and jumping off a cliff into a river. After emerging from the river, Martha realizes that she has been shot, but returns to the group immediately after her avatar explodes. Examining a series of line tattoos on their forearms, which originally consisted of three bars where Martha and Bethany now only have two, Spencer realizes that these bars indicate the number of lives they have in the game, guessing that they will die for good, both in the game, and in the real world as well, once they lose all three lives.
While traveling to the bazaar where they will receive their next clue, an argument between Spencer and Fridge over Fridge's perception of Spencer's role in this problem results in Fridge pushing Spencer off a cliff, costing him one of his lives. In the bazaar, Fridge loses one of his lives when he eats cake – previously identified as one of his character's weaknesses – and explodes, drawing the attention of Van Pelt's minions. Fortunately, before they are attacked, they discover their next clue hidden in a basket containing a snake, which the team are able to acquire by pooling their skills and coming together, allowing Spencer to catch the snake while Fridge defangs it. When Van Pelt's forces attack, Spencer attempts to fight them off, but they are soon confronted by Van Pelt himself, only just escaping when another player uses a smoke grenade as a distraction and leads them to a secret passage.
In his home base – which was previously occupied and built by Alan Parrish – the player explains that his name is Alex, and he was the fifth player identified on the game's selection menu. He has used up two of his lives and been unable to progress further without the others due to his limited skills, but has identified the transport shed where they will acquire the means to move on. While Bethany teaches Martha in how to flirt to distract the guards, Alex's dated references lead Spencer and Fridge to realize that he is Alex Vreeke, Alex in turn, being shocked to learn that he has been trapped in the game for over twenty years. Although Alex suffers a panic attack, the team are able to gain access to the transport shed after Martha taps into her character's strength of dance combat, subsequently helping Alex recognize that they can complete the game by working together.
There is a brief panic when damage to the helicopter traps it in a canyon in front of a rampaging herd of white rhinoceros, but Spencer is able to repair the damage and help them ascend. Unfortunately, they lose the gem when it falls out of Fridge's backpack, but Spencer is able to reclaim the gem after using Fridge as a 'sacrifice' to draw the rhino herd's attention, subsequently ordering Alex to spin the helicopter in time to catch Fridge as he 'respawns'. Once they land, Alex is stung by a mosquito and begins to die due to his avatar's weakness, but Bethany saves him by giving him CPR, which passes one of her remaining lives to him. As they prepare for their next step, Spencer and Martha admit that they have feelings for each other in the real world, while Bethany begins to bond with Alex.
Making their way to the jaguar statue, they find themselves confronted by actual jaguar guards, which cost Spencer one of his lives when he attempts to take the gem along the path to the statue alone. With Fridge's support, Spencer implements a plan where Martha takes out Van Pelt's approaching minions while the other three provide a distraction for the jaguars, leaving Spencer to take one of the minion's motorbikes and continue to the statue. Van Pelt attempts to gain the advantage by taking Bethany hostage, but Fridge is able to drive the jaguar guards away by befriending an elephant, only for the players to lose the gem when it is thrown away. While the others distract Van Pelt's minions, Spencer takes the bike to the top of the statue while Martha retrieves the gem from a pit full of snakes, using her character's weakness to venom to sacrifice her second life and 'respawn' in a position where she can pass the gem to Spencer as she falls. With this action, Spencer places the gem in the statue and calls out "Jumanji!", ending the game and restoring the jungle to peace. With this victory, Nigel appears to congratulate the group, shaking their hands and returning them to the real world.
Back in the storage room, all four detention students have returned to their true forms, but are saddened to find that Alex is not among them. As they walk home, they witness the Vreeke household – which had fallen into disrepair as Alex's parents had no answer as to his fate – has been fully restored. As a car parks outside the house to release a family, the father sees the former players and confirms that he is Alex, who emerged from the game in 1996 and changed his history, also revealing that he named his eldest daughter after Bethany.
The following week at school, Spencer and Fridge are friends once again, and Bethany is making plans to go backpacking, while Spencer and Martha start dating. When they hear the drumbeats of Jumanji, they take the console out to the back of the school and Fridge drops a bowling ball on to it, each intending that this will end the game once and for all.
Cast
The Game World
- Dwayne Johnson as Dr. Smolder Bravestone, an archaeologist and explorer who is Spencer's avatar.
- Jack Black as Professor Sheldon Oberon, a cartographer, cryptographer, archaeologist and paleontologist who is Bethany's avatar.
- Karen Gillan as Ruby Roundhouse, a commando and dance fighter who is Martha's avatar.
- Kevin Hart as Moose Finbar, a short zoologist and weapons specialist who is Fridge's avatar.
- Nick Jonas as Seaplane McDonough, the avatar of Alex Vreeke that is a mysterious guide, adventurer, and pilot in the game who helps the avatars escape Jumanji.[7]
- Bobby Cannavale as John Van Pelt, an explorer seeking to control the powers of the "Jaguar's Eye". Jonathan Hyde played a different version of Van Pelt in the 1995 film.
- Rhys Darby as Nigel
- William Tokarsky as Trader
The Real World
- Alex Wolff as Spencer Gilpin, a nerdy gamer who goes to detention with Fridge, Martha, and Bethany for helping Fridge with his homework by writing them for Fridge; he also discovers the Jumanji video game.
- Madison Iseman as Bethany Walker, the prettiest girl in school and a cheerleader who goes to detention with Spencer, Fridge, and Martha after she talked on her phone during a quiz.
- Ser'Darius Blain as Anthony "Fridge" Johnson, a football jock who goes to detention with Spencer, Martha, and Bethany for having Spencer write his essays for him.
- Morgan Turner as Martha Kaply, a shy bookworm who goes to detention with Spencer, Fridge, and Bethany for objecting to participate in physical education.
- Marc Evan Jackson as Principal Bentley, the principal who makes Spencer, Bethany, Fridge, and Martha clean up the basement as part of their detention.
- Mason Gussione as Alex Vreeke, a young teenage boy who played and got trapped inside the Jumanji video game in 1996.
- Colin Hanks as Older Alex Vreeke
- Sean Buxton as Alex's Father / Jogger #1
- Tim Matheson as Older Alex's Father (Old Man Vreeke, uncredited)
- Sylvia Jefferies as Alex's Mother / Jogger #2
- Virgina Newcomb as Older Alex's Mother
- Maribeth Monroe as Teacher
- Missi Pyle as Coach Webb, the gym teacher.
Production
Development
In July 2012, rumors emerged that a remake of the film Jumanji was already in development. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Columbia Pictures president Doug Belgrad said: "We're going to try and reimagine Jumanji and update it for the present."[8] On August 1, 2012, it was confirmed that Matthew Tolmach would be producing the new version alongside William Teitler, who produced the original film.[9]In August 2015, the remake was confirmed when Sony Pictures Entertainment announced their plans to release the film on December 25, 2016.[10] Internet reception to this announcement was negative, with some posters remarking that this announcement came too soon after the death of Robin Williams who portrayed Alan Parrish from the original film.[11][12] The news was also heavily criticized by Bradley Pierce, who also from the original Jumanji as Peter Shepherd as well as E! News which stated that they felt that the remake was "unnecessary and kind of insulting".[13][14] On October 23, 2015, Scott Rosenberg was hired to rewrite the script for the film and it was the studio's high priority film to make.[15] On January 14, 2016, Deadline reported that Jake Kasdan had been hired to direct the film from a script by Rosenberg and Jeff Pinkner, based on a draft by original writers, Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers.[16]
On April 15, 2016, Variety reported that Dwayne Johnson and Kevin Hart were in early talks to star in the film, while both actors had other projects to shoot, which might have created schedule conflicts.[17] Later, Johnson confirmed his casting through his Instagram account.[18] On July 2016, it was reported that Nick Jonas had joined the film's cast along with the confirmed casting of Johnson, Hart, and Jack Black.[19] In August 2016, Johnson clarified that the film would not be a reboot, but a continuation of the 1995 film,[20] and announced that Karen Gillan had joined the cast.[21] On September 20, 2016, Ser'Darius Blain and Madison Iseman were cast in the film, with Blain playing Anthony "Fridge" Johnson, and following them on September 22, 2016, Rhys Darby, Morgan Turner, and Alex Wolff joined the cast. Darby plays Nigel, and Wolff plays Spencer.[22][23][24] In November 2016, Bobby Cannavale announced his involvement in the film.[25] In December 2016, Tim Matheson joined the cast of the film, portraying the role of Old Man Vreeke.[26]
James Newton Howard was originally attached to compose the film's score,[27] when the film's release date was pushed back half a year, he was replaced by Henry Jackman.[1]
In March 2017 during CinemaCon, it was announced that the complete title of the film would be Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle. The plot was revealed to be about teenagers tasked with cleaning out a school's basement who find a vintage video game version of Jumanji and get sucked into the jungle setting of the first film. While many fans theorized whether the film was a sequel or a reboot, the second trailer, which was released on September 20, 2017, revealed that the film takes place over twenty years after the events of the first film.
Release
In August 2015, Sony set the film a release date for December 25, 2016.[30] It was then pushed back a year from its original release date of December 25, 2016 to July 28, 2017 and then pushed back from July 28, 2017 to December 20, 2017.[2]On November 29, 2017, it was announced Amazon Prime members in the United States would have early access to movie tickets for a single December 8, 2017 screening of the film at select Regal, National Amusements, ArcLight Cinemas and AMC theaters.[31] The screenings ended up selling out at nearly 1,200 theaters and making around $2 million.[32]
Box office
In the United States and Canada, Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is projected to gross around $60 million from 3,600 theaters in its six-day opening weekend, with the studio predicting a more conservative $45 million debut.[33][34]Critical response
On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 80% based on 51 reviews, and an average rating of 6.2/10. The site's critical consensus reads, "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle uses a charming cast and a humorous twist to offer an undemanding yet solidly entertaining update on its source material."[35] On Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 58 out of 100 based on 18 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[36]Dave White of TheWrap praised the cast and called the film a pleasant surprise, saying, "Jumanji: Welcome to The Jungle is the Christmas tentpole release that aims to please and succeeds, a funny family entertainment product that subverts more expectations than it was obligated to contractually."[37] David Ehrlich of IndieWire gave the film a "C" and called it unnecessary but mildly amusing: "...Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is further proof that even the stalest whiff of brand recognition has become preferable to originality. Only part of the blame for that belongs to the studios, but after cannibalizing themselves for much of the last 20 years, Hollywood has clearly eaten their way down to the crumbs."[38]
Conversely, writing for Variety, Owen Gleiberman was critical of the film, saying, "Excitement! Suspense! Childlike innocence! Ingeniously staged action set pieces! These are a few of the things you will not find, anywhere, in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle...It’s supposed to be a board game come to life, but really, it’s just a bored game.
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