the mildly amusing "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle" is further proof that even the stalest whiff of brand recognition has become preferable to originality
structuring its challenges in the level-by-level mode familiar to gamers, the movie's action has a much more ordinary feel than that of the earlier picture
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a big, brash, amiable entertainment with something of Indiana Jones, plus the body-swap comedy of Freaky Friday, or F Anstey's Victorian classic Vice Versa
even if some of its subplots and emotional throughlines don't quite click, the action-packed fun and humor should still make it worth your price of admission
a film as busy as a mediocre video game and as familiar and by-the-numbers as a dozen other brand-recognition titles that have recently trundled off the Tinseltown widget assembly line