Pilot: Jumanji The Next Level

With a well-known cast such as Dwayne The Rock Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Danny DeVito and Nick Jonas you expect a long adventure with a lot of excitement and danger along the way and that is exactly what you get with Jumanji: The Next Level. The movie starts off showing the four protagonists, high schoolers, who have previously been inside the Jumanji video game. Each of these characters follows a stereotype; the nerdy kid with asthma, the jock, the blonde valley girl and the book smart girl. As with the old Jumanji movie, the four main characters go back into the game to go through with the deadly adventure all over again. Unlike the first movie where the characters got to choose which Avatar they wanted, this time they had no choice and it was random as to which character they played. As well, the location of this game was entirely different. Instead of being in the jungle, they were in a desert, a tundra and finally a mountainous terrain. The comic relief is abundant from each character and the story never gets too stale. From beginning to end the story is easy to understand as well as funny.

At the end of the day, it's a solid movie and I'd recommend it to anyone needing a good comical relief.

8 M&M's in your popcorn out of 10.

Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, and Awkwafina in Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)

Next time I will review Cost of Living, a play about relationships between the abled and disabled.

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