Jungle Cruise (2021)

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   SpacedJ

   Raiders of the Pirates of The Mummy and the Temple of Doom: Dead Men Tell No Anaconda 3 years 1 month ago
2. 

   Siskoid

   Throwing off some pretty strong 90s Mummy vibes at first, Jungle Cruise also has a lot in common with Pirates of the Caribbean and more pointedly, with Disney's animated movies. It's a cartoon in all but medium. It's all "acting for kids", bad puns, pee jokes, obvious music cues, slapstick, and caricatured villains... oh, and a CG animal sidekick. If this were an animated film, it would have worked fine. As live action, the boat is pitching at younger than I can set my brain (and how's that for a bad pun). But then, should we expect much depth from a movie based on a ride (and there are some fun references to it, I'm told)? The story takes adventurers played by some perfectly pleasant stars down the Amazon to find the Tree of Immortality (so it's The Fountain for kiddies), which is a pretty good "Indiana Jones" quest. The plot relies a bit heavily on narration at times, has one villain too many, and certainly forces the multiple happy endings, but the biggest question it leaves on the table for me is how this will be received by British children given that the Rock calls Emily Blunt "pants" through 90% of the picture. 2 years 10 months ago
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   essaywhu

   Silly fun, but could have done without the supernatural element. The evil German was more than enough villain for one film and the CGI villains felt too indebted to the Pirates films. 2 years 9 months ago

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