The Film:

Despite the iffy visual effects and a few larger-than-life performances, I’m a pretty big fan of the movie
Jumanji, in which four people are forced to finish a game while every roll of the dice creates real-world, deadly obstacles for them to endure. While designed for children and older audiences, there’s a certain caliber of suspense and terror emergent from that concept that works regardless of the intended audience, partly in anticipation of what’s to come and partly in how the players adapt to their new challenges. It might be kind of unusual to compare a 90s kids adventure film to the likes of bloody, R-rated contemporary film lik…
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