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angela435231

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I really loved this movie. They put in a entertaining ending to make you wake up if you are about to fall asleep on it and this movie was just excellent.

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Posted aug 28, 2009 6:20 am pt

kohllapse

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Entertaining...

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Posted apr 7, 2008 5:18 am pt

chocola18

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It's good, it's funny. I watched it when I was a kid and now i still enjoy watching it.

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Posted nov 25, 2007 10:30 am pt

Jordan765

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its very good and funny

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Posted jul 30, 2007 9:48 pm pt

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I really don't like Jumanji.I didn't think it was that great. Robin Williams try so hard to be funny when he's not in this movie. It's so stupid to have a person trap in a game borad over 20 years. Or have the animals come out to live. I give it...
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I really don't like Jumanji.I didn't think it was that great. Robin Williams try so hard to be funny when he's not in this movie. It's so stupid to have a person trap in a game borad over 20 years. Or have the animals come out to live. I give it two thumps down flat.

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Posted jul 9, 2007 3:00 am pt

amauriel

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"Jumanji" was just a silly movie that had no redeeming qualities about it whatsoever. Well, the special effects were pretty cool, but that's about it. I was very disappointed with the cast's acting and the story was just boring.

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Posted mar 6, 2007 10:48 pm pt

CTUBauer24

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A very good movie with very good spechel effects.

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Posted feb 28, 2007 12:19 pm pt

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I have seen Jumanji when I was a kid. I loved it then and I still love it now. The concept of the movie is truly original and it successfully delivers on its potential. I liked the special effect and off course Robin Williams who played a good...
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I have seen Jumanji when I was a kid. I loved it then and I still love it now. The concept of the movie is truly original and it successfully delivers on its potential. I liked the special effect and off course Robin Williams who played a good role in this movie. A young Kirsten Dunst is charming in this preview of her future talents.
So if you want some good, family fun seeing a movie, rent Jumanji.

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Posted feb 9, 2007 11:56 pm pt

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It was really good for the time. The CG and the actors were amazing. But after watching it the second time, I was kind of bored by the movie. I didn't felt any attraction to it and started to see the flaw.

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Posted feb 7, 2007 8:32 am pt

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A cool movie. Some kids find a board game. They start playing it. But soon find out that they have to play the full game and complete it. they cannot quit in between. This was not an ordinary board game. Good movie, with good special effects. The...
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A cool movie. Some kids find a board game. They start playing it. But soon find out that they have to play the full game and complete it. they cannot quit in between. This was not an ordinary board game. Good movie, with good special effects. The story was good too.

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Posted jan 30, 2007 7:15 pm pt

• [+] San Francisco Examiner
  
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  The result is a thrill ride with enough plunges and turns and loop-the-loops to make it worth a spin. What the picture lacks is the magic and resonance you feel in the best of popular entertainments.

  by Walter Addiego | Read Full Review »
• [+] TV Guide
  
  63
  Regrettably, however, the weird elegance of Chris Van Allsburg's much-praised picture book has been all but lost in translation.

  by Staff(not credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] USA Today
  
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  Based on a popular children's book by Chris Van Allsburg and directed by that "Honey, I Shrunk the Kids" guy Joe Johnston, Jumanji is a calculated but very entertaining special effects extravaganza. [15Dec1995 Pg. 01.D]

  by Mike Clark | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New York Times
  
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  Eschewing warm, cuddly imagery just as Mr. Van Allsburg's book does, the film affects a strange, artificial style that has the invasive weirdness of "Gremlins" but none of the charm.

  by Elvis Mitchell | Read Full Review »
• [+] Empire
  
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  On a scene by scene basis, it is mostly great fun but suffers from a contrived script which repetitively drags characters back to the eponymous magical board game for another effect-producing throw of the dice.

  by Staff(not credited) | Read Full Review »
• [+] Entertainment Weekly
  
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  Jumanji is cardboard Spielberg, a B-movie scrap heap of spare parts lifted from "Jurassic Park" and "Gremlins" and "Back to the Future".

  by Owen Gleiberman | Read Full Review »
• [+] Variety
  
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  The screenplay, however, denies the film a solid foundation. Jumanji is diverting in a splashy , eye-catching manner, but is about as substantive and durable as filigree.

  by Leonard Klady | Read Full Review »
• [+] ReelViews
  
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  Jumanji takes approximately one-hundred minutes for four people to play a board game. The result isn't much more fun or involving than watching a few friends play Monopoly.

  by James Berardinelli | Read Full Review »
• [+] San Francisco Chronicle
  
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  As a movie, it's far from compelling. As a thrill ride, though, it's a rampaging special effects and animatronics extravaganza that will make small children cringe behind their seats.

  by Peter Stack | Read Full Review »
• [+] The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
  
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  The terror sequences (not only animals but monsoons and earthquakes and quicksand) are scary until they get monotonous: after a while, you have a sense you're watching a clip reel from every Hollywood disaster flick ever made.

  by Liam Lacey | Read Full Review »
• [+] The New Yorker
  
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  The movie takes time to warm up, it weakens into soppiness at the end, and the game itself, if you think it through, makes very little sense.

  by Anthony Lane | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
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  Williams is hardly at his comically inventive best. And the script (adapted by Chris Van Allsburg, and a string of others, from his book) pursues the least exciting avenues possible.

  by Desson Thomson | Read Full Review »
• [+] Chicago Sun-Times
  
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  The film is a gloomy special-effects extravaganza filled with grotesque images, generating fear and despair.

  by Roger Ebert | Read Full Review »
• [+] Washington Post
  
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  The script boasts more writers than the computerized menagerie's got megabytes, but they haven't come up with much variety or humor in what is essentially a string of catastrophes.

  by Rita Kempley | Read Full Review »
• [+] Los Angeles Times
  
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  Something bad happened on the way from the book to the movie. [15Dec1995 Pg. F.01]

  by Jack Mathews | Read Full Review »