![]() This leads to both important character growth-she says her other senses are getting stronger now that the phone is gone, and indeed both her empathy and her intellect seem to grow before our eyes-and some male genitalia humor that may or may not go over your kids' heads. Smolder Bravestone (one of his powers is Smolder.)īethany, who is obsessed with her phone and her figure, is trapped in the body of Sheldon Oberon (Jack Black) and can't find her phone. So Spencer (Dwayne Johnson) who is weak and timid and afraid of everything in the real world, is brave and strong and heroic in Jumanji as the game's chief protagonist, Dr. ![]() It is an unabashed video game movie. The four teens who find themselves in new video game bodies all have new powers that, serendipitously enough, provide them with just the kind of strengths and weaknesses they lacked in the real world, and the main characters all have HUD displays they can call up that list. Jumanji takes the Wreck It Ralph approach. Movie adaptations of games often want to distance themselves as far from the games as possible, while video game adaptations of movies want to replicate the film experience as closely as possible. A straight adaptation is less interesting because it relies so much on our preconceived notions of the character Indiana Jones and, perhaps just as importantly, the actor Harrison Ford.Īdapting Uncharted back into a film would be just as precarious, because we have our notions of what the game is supposed to be and the movie would, almost without doubt, ditch much of what made the games what they are in order to be more of a second-rate Indiana Jones film. ![]() The similarities are there, but developer Naughty Dog did its own thing with the story and traded a bull-whip for a bunch of climbing segments. For instance, Uncharted is a direct homage to Indiana Jones, but it doesn't try to be Indiana Jones. Still, like Wreck It Ralph, the best video games about movies don't directly use a popular license. ![]()
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