"This is an entertainment in the broad Hollywood tradition of Capra and Spielberg, with a boisterous touch of Peter Pan in that the stern father figure and the scary villain are both played by the same actor. But there's something else, too, a dash of something that, if it were played straight, would be genuinely creepy. And actually, even played just the way it is, it's still pretty creepy."
"A couple of recently orphaned kids, Peter and Judy (played by Bradley Pierce and Kirsten Dunst), chance upon this musty old game in the attic of their new house; they roll the correct numbers on the dice and release the crazed and disoriented Alan, whose strange and presumably jungle-dwelling garb is the only direct clue we will have to what his life has been like inside."
Robin Williams stars as Alan Parrish, a man trapped in a surreal, Kiplingesque board game called Jumanji who emerges decades later in jungle-styled garb. Two orphaned children, Peter and Judy, find the game and release Alan along with a torrent of animals, insects and colonial-era hazards, including a rifle‑wielding pith‑helmeted Brit. The only way to restore order is to finish the game, which requires locating Sarah Whittle, Alan's childhood companion. The film blends Capra‑ and Spielberg‑style broad Hollywood entertainment with boisterous, Peter Pan‑like elements and an underlying, genuinely creepy strain beneath its exuberance.
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