Jumanji: Welcome to the jungle!!

On Tuesday, 2^nd January I went to watch a movie Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle along with my family. It is a fantastic movie. The movie is set in a dense jungle which is full of wild and dangerous animals.

Some of the scenes are creepy, some are thrilling and some even inspiring. Some scenes have violence, but once in a while that is fine. This movie is full of all kinds of emotions like love, happiness, anger, gloom, surprise. It is the most adventurous movie that I have seen so far.

In this movie four teenagers (Spencer, Fridge, Martha and Bethany) of a high school are sent for detention. They are required to take out the stapler pins from magazines to be recycled as their punishment. They find an old-rusty video game, named Jumanji. 

They get curious and start playing by choosing one character each from the game. Very soon they realize that they are inside the game, in a jungle, becoming the characters, they chose. 

It is interesting that they can come out of the game only when they win it. They all have three lives and if they lose them they will die in the game and possibly in reality too. All the characters have different strengths and weaknesses.

Main Characters

Spencer finds himself as Dr. Smolder Bravestone, a muscular archaeologist. He is happy to become one feet taller with lots of physical strength and no weakness. Fridge comes to the jungle as Mr. Franklin Moosefinbar, an expert zoologist. He is upset to become one feet shorter.

 Martha becomes Ruby Roundhouse, an attractive dance fighter. She is not very happy with her short clothes. Bethany turns into Shelly Oberon, a superb cartographer. She is not happy as she becomes a man. In fact, Shelly is the short form of Sheldon, which had appeared on the video game as the character name.

The Plot

The villain of the game Van Pelt has stolen a green gem from the eye of the Jaguars statue in the middle of the jungle. Whoever had the gem could control all the animals of the jungle. Therefore, he keeps it close to his heart . 

Nigale (one of the game characters) takes the gem from Van Pelt secretly. As these four players get into the jungle and the game, Nigale tells them the whole story and hands over the gem to them. He also informs them that now it is their responsibility to put this gem back in its respective place. And as they do so, they will win the game.

Favorite Scene

My most favorite scene of the movie is when Martha has the diamond in her hand and she is in front of Van Pelt. She has two lives left and she is surrounded by poisonous snakes. At the same time, Spenser is climbing towards the statue. She had promised him to bring the gem to him. Her weakness is venom. She stomps on one of the snakes which bites her. She sacrifices her life and comes back from the sky as this is the rule of the game. While coming from the sky, she passes the gem to Spenser. I like it because she acts quite cleverly by turning her weakness into a strength at the time of emergency. It was scary as well as an amazing scene.

Another scene that I liked was when Martha goes to catch attention of the guards, so that the others can get a transport from the garage behind the guards. Unknowingly, the music turns on and by her dance fighting skills, Martha finishes them off. 

3D effect

We watched the movie in 3D. In many scenes I forgot I was sitting in a movie hall, and felt as if I was in the jungle. The scene when a Hippopotamus with his big mouth open, came to eat Bethany was one such scene. 

There is another where Bravestone makes the helicopter tilt and catches the zoologist after he had finished his second life and is falling from the sky. It was most thrilling part of the movie.

I held my mum’s hands very tightly all the time. I came out of the movie very happy and thrilled. I give 9.5 points out of 10 to this movie. This movie is a must watch for everyone