Jumanji: Welcome To The Breakfast Club

From the trailers and marketing for this movie, I wasn’t excited to go see it. I didn’t see the point in another Jumanji movie, especially one that seemed to not have anything in common with the original film, apart from a similar title. However, other reviews and word of mouth convinced me to go see it, and I’m glad I did.
The film starts out like the Breakfast Club, a gang of high schoolers from different cliques and social statuses wind up in detention together, and by the end of the movie, you know they’re going to see past their differences and become friends. It’s predictable, but what follows makes me look past this.
Once they boot up a mysterious video game and get sucked inside, the best parts of this movie start to shine. As the audience figures out the characters now inhabit avatars wildly different from themselves, the humor and amazing acting come through. Seriously, the Rock, Karen Gillan, Kevin Hart, and last but not least Jack Black do an amazing job at portraying their teenage counterparts. They go above and beyond to convince the audience that they are kids taking control of video game characters, and it really makes the

For me, the story has to be worthwhile in order for the movie to have the same effect. The interesting thing is that Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle doesn’t put all that much care into the story. And the movie uses that to its advantage by using it to comment on video games. It’s your run-of-the-mill, copy-and-paste villain gets special powers and wants to take over the world (or in this case Jumanji, whatever that is, it’s not really explained) story. When exposition is given, the characters even comment about it being a cut scene, something gamers kind of have to watch, but don’t often care about. The audience doesn’t really care about the story given by the cut scene either. It’s not the story that’s interesting, it’s how the characters interact with the story they’re