![]() ![]() The two recent films, “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” and “Jumanji: The Next Level” are still fantasy adventure films, but notably focus on the characters being trapped with a video game instead of a board game attacking them, while also embracing a much more comedic element, with actors such as Jack Black, Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan and Nick Jonas. They are both flawed but extremely interesting fantasy adventure films. “Jumanji” and “Zathura,” the two earlier films, are fairly similar, with the cast playing a board game and then crazy things happening in the real world because of the board game. ![]() This first film, which was based upon a children’s book written by Chris Van Allsburg, spawned an animated TV show, a vaguely related movie called “Zathura: A Space Adventure,” before a continuation of the series came in 2017 with “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.” All four of these films follow a pretty similar format: various children who play a magic game either find themselves trapped within the game itself or find dangerous elements of the games escaping into the real world. Mainstream audiences were first blessed with “Jumanji” in late 1995, which starred the late Robin Williams. ![]()
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