Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - 4K + Blu-ray + Digital

This is the 2017 movie that is mostly a reboot and quasi-sequel to the 1995 movie, Jumanji, which starred Robin Williams. This version starts out with four high school students named Spencer (played by Alex Wolff) who is a gaming and science nerd, Fridge (played by Ser'Darius Blain) who is a football star, Bethany (played by Madison Iseman), a self-absorbed hot chick, and Martha (played by Morgan Turner), an introverted loner, are assigned detention and forced to clean the school basement. They find an old video game that sucks them into the game when it boots up, with the twist being that they inhabit the bodies of the game characters, and find out they each have three lives with which to finish the game. Spencer becomes the leader Smolder Bravestone, (played by The Rock), Fridge becomes Smolder's sidekick, Mouse (played by Kevin Hart), Martha becomes Ruby Roundhouse (played by Karen Gillian), and Bethany becomes the cartographer played by Jack Black.The movie is about the video game characters playing people who are totally opposite themselves, so the Rock is a sickly nerd who suddenly becomes a 6'5" musclebound tank, Karen Gillian plays an introvert who basically becomes Laura Croft (inappropriate jungle attire included), Kevin Hart plays a football player turned into a 5'3" loudmouth, and Jack Black has to play a hot high school girl turned overweight middle-aged man. The movie is a good blend of action and comedy, and the cast all play off each other very well. There are some very funny moments, including Karen Gillian commenting on the short shorts she is wearing and Kevin Hart's character's inability to eat cake. There are some tie-ins with the original movie, including paying homage to Robin William's character from the original movie. The movie has to walk a fine line between honoring the original with doing its own thing, which it does well.For those who get the 4k set, the UHD disc just has the movie and then all of the extras are included on the regular blu-ray disc. The A/V quality of the UHD disc is very good, but it is not what I would call far beyond the a/v quality of the regular blu-ray disc. Both are pretty comparable. The extras include a gag reel, a music video by Nick Jonas (who has a role in the movie), and a handful of making-of and behind-the-scenes featurettes that vary in length from about four minutes to just under fifteen minutes. All totaled there are about 40 minutes, give or take, worth of extras if you like going through them.Overall, the movie is very good. As I said above, it has a good blend of action and comedy, and all of the actors fit their roles very well. The Rock, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillian, and Jack Black all play their parts perfectly, and each of their characters get their moments to shine during the movie. It is definitely a more "adult" movie than the 1995 movie was and does include swearing and sex jokes. So, be aware that it is not as family-friendly as the original movie. That said, it is definitely worth watching.

This is a crazy and makes the picture to watch but it’s a lot of fun. Watch it with your grandkids life and enjoy it. It’s a lot of fun to watch. It’s adventurous exciting little scary but it’s a lot of fun to watch with your grandchildren. Great grandchildren all of the family.

Great movie

Overall an entertaining and silly movie. The Rock, Jack Black, and Kevin Hart did a great job channeling kids in unfamiliar bodies. Unfortunately for Karen Gillan, even though she did an okay job, I've never seen her before nor even heard of her for that matter, and her character wasn't particularly fleshed out and could have been performed by any actress (this was definitely a role that would have benefitted from a more experienced and mature actress, say ScarJo for example). Her character was the least entertaining simply because there was no clearly defined dichotomy or easily perceivable difference between who she really was and who she was acting as. The ending was a bit awkward but didn't ruin anything.The story is that the Jumanji game is some kind of magic portal. It starts off as a board game like as in the original movie with Robin Williams, but in a twist, the game magically senses that it's out of place (set in the mid 90's when found by a kid, it's dismissed as old fashioned ... something along the lines of "who plays board games anymore") so it transforms itself into a video game. Fast forward 25 or so years. High school kids while serving detention stumble across the video game gathering dust in a box in an old storeroom at school (they were supposed to be cleaning) and one of the group hooks it up to a tv and they all start playing it. And dontcha know it, they all get sucked into the game, transported into the world of Jumanji. And this is when the fun starts ... the scrawny nerd boy gets turned into Dwayne "the Rock" Johnson, the buff football stud gets turned into Kevin Hart, the fatuous pretty girl becomes Jack Black, and the smart shy girl becomes the Lara Croft-esque adventure chick played by relatively unknown Karen Gillan (again, shoulda been an actress with action movie chops like Scarlett Johansson in my opinion). Together they must solve the game's puzzles in order to escape back to the real world. Lots of action and some cartoony violence but that's in keeping with the theme since this is supposed to be a video game in essence.

Loved this movie.

Always like this one with the kids

Love the movie

Movie was great