Jumanji (1995) movie poster

Jumanji (1995)

"It's a jungle in here."
ThumbScore
👍 89%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 48%
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Runtime
1h 44m
Rated
PG
Country
United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.2/10 (11,164 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
55%
Metacritic
41

Cast

Robin Williams as Alan Parrish · 75% avg
Kirsten Dunst as Judy Shepherd · 72% avg
Bradley Pierce as Peter Shepherd
Bonnie Hunt as Sarah Whittle · 77% avg
Jonathan Hyde as Samuel Alan Parrish / Van Pelt · 74% avg
Bebe Neuwirth as Nora Shepherd · 72% avg
David Alan Grier as Carl Bentley · 69% avg
Adam Hann-Byrd as Young Alan · 78% avg

Is Jumanji good?

Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 48%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#87 / 1446 · Adventure
Rank in its year
#13 / 107 · 1995
Rank among its director's films
#1 / 10 · Joe Johnston

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

When siblings Judy and Peter discover an enchanted board game that opens the door to a magical world, they unwittingly invite Alan -- an adult who's been trapped inside the game for 26 years -- into their living room. Alan's only hope for freedom is to finish the game, which proves risky as all three find themselves running from giant rhinoceroses, evil monkeys and other terrifying creatures. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

Jumanji is a 1995 American fantasy adventure film directed by Joe Johnston, based on Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 picture book. Robin Williams stars as Alan Parrish, a man who was trapped inside the magical board game Jumanji as a child in 1969 and is freed 26 years later when two children discover the game in his abandoned family home. As the players continue the game — which they must finish to reverse its effects — each roll of the dice unleashes increasingly dangerous jungle elements into the real world, including stampeding rhinos, man-eating plants, monsoon floods, giant spiders, and a big-game hunter named Van Pelt who stalks Alan through the streets.

Robin Williams brought his characteristic blend of manic energy and emotional depth to Alan, a man who has spent 26 years surviving in a supernatural jungle and returns to find his parents dead, his home abandoned, and his childhood stolen. The film's visual effects, which combined CGI animals with practical sets and physical effects, were ambitious for their time, though some of the digital work has aged more than others. Jonathan Hensleigh's screenplay expanded Van Allsburg's slim picture book into a full adventure while maintaining the original's central metaphor — Jumanji as a manifestation of childhood fears that must be confronted to grow up.

The film earned $262 million worldwide on a $65 million budget and became a beloved family film whose cultural footprint endured for over two decades, eventually spawning the massively successful Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle reboot in 2017.

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