Terrible acting, screenplay and direction.

Powerful

The film was still a fun one that will make you laugh and have you leaving the theater feeling like you just stole something valuable and got away with it.

If the ambition is to provide two hours of instantly forgettable, popcorn-munching escapism, it succeeds.

I re-watched this film recently and it is much better than I remember. It's a great family adventure film. The cast is amazing with Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, David Alan Greer and a young Kirsten Dunst. The graphics are actually pretty decent considering this game out in the mid-90s.

This is an entertainment movie that has some wonderful imagination stuff. What can a board of game do to us?? This movie gives an answer- huhhh. Good watch and entertainment.

There's some interesting stuff in 'Jumanji (1995)', mainly surrounding the melancholic situations of the two now adult players of the eponymous game. These are people who are both scarred in their own way after having their childhoods uniquely stolen by the seemingly 'fun' thing they're now forced to revisit. These themes are never fully explored, however, even to the point of being bizarrely backtracked upon. As such, the piece never properly lives up to its potential, an issue persistent across all of its motifs and even its mythology. It seems strange for the central conceit to revolve around a board-game when it wasn't a pre-existing property and even the characters in the wholly unnecessary, mystery-and-tone killing 1960s-set prologue claim to not have played one for five years. It also barely feels as though it has real any impact on the proceedings of the plot, despite the fact that it's its sole driving force. The occasional set-piece is still somewhat fun, though, even if most of the effects fall flat in retrospect and the flick is generally all over the place. 5/10

The story centers on 12-year-old Alan Parrish, who becomes trapped in a board game while playing with his best friend Sarah Whittle in 1969. Twenty-six years later, in 1995, siblings Judy and Peter Shepherd find the game, begin playing and then unwittingly release the now-adult Alan. The group of now are out to finish the game in order to reverse all of the destruction it has caused.I saw this film after I saw "Welcome to Jungle". I thought this film had too much set-up and not enough action. The CGI also looks cheap by today's standards. Now the performances are fine but in general the film comes across like a "Work in Progress" . It seemed to be screaming out that the filmmakers ran out of money and we were never given the chance to re-edit and re-shoot somethings.