![]() ![]() It’s a relief, therefore, to report that Jumanji: The Next Level keeps things upbeat and lively, thanks in no small part to the introduction of two counterintuitively revivifying characters – curmudgeonly old codgers whose gripes and aches provide a jolly counterpoint to the teen angst that fired Kasdan’s previous instalment.ĭanny DeVito and Danny Glover are, respectively, Eddie and Milo – former restaurateurs nursing a 15-year-old estrangement beef. With a worldwide box-office gross just this side of a billion dollars, a sequel became an industrial necessity – never an inspiring situation. The result was a crowd-pleasing romp that combined the school detention premise of The Breakfast Club with boisterous CG action in sprightly fashion. While Joe Johnston’s Jumanji (starring Robin Williams) had featured fantastical creatures escaping from the titular board-game to run wild in Brantford, New Hampshire, Kasdan’s “continuation of the story” sent four young players into a video game, where they battled a series of challenges in order to earn a safe passage home. I'll be there.’ And then she came and my god, talk about another just like where you go, ‘This is such an amazing actor.No one was more surprised than I when Jake Kasdan’s 2017 romp Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle managed to squeeze smart new thrills from the premise of Chris Van Allsburg’s 1981 children’s book, first filmed in 1995. ![]() I'm like, ‘So now it's a video game and you go in and you’re a different …’ So I was like trying to distill it down and she was kind of like, ‘I think I follow and let's go, let's do it. That was a really funny one because - so she, as I suspected, had not seen our first movie, Welcome to the Jungle, so I knew getting on the phone that that was very likely and that if she hadn't, it's like the five minutes of explaining what that role is that she's playing is like incredibly complicated. ![]() One can imagine that Neuwirth might not be expecting a call to reprise her role from the 1995 film, so I had to ask Kasdan how that conversation went. ![]()
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