Product: Jumanji [VHS] (1995)
Rating: 2.0
One of Robin Williams' worst movies.
I'd say this is one of Williams' worst movies. He's not funny at all here, although the movie does have some mild humor here and there. Unlike his other movies, there is really no moral to story, meaning that the plot is ultimately pointless.The movie begins in the 1860's when two kids bury some locked chest. Then, a boy discovers it on a construction site and pulls it out, discovering a board game inside called Jumanji. He gets a girl to play with him and he is sucked into the board, reappearing like 20 years later, saying and looking like he had been living in a jungle most of his life. Unfortunately, with him also came undesirable things from Jumanji, such as monkeys taking over the town, stampeding elephants, disease, spiders the size of basketballs, and the like. To end it all, they must finish the game, which means it's going to get worse before it gets better. They end up finishing it alive (barely) and then they are back in time as kids right before he got sucked into the board. So the two keep the secret to themselves since no one is aware anything happened and they'd never believe them anyway. They also get married. Awww, how cute. So they rid themselves of the damned game of course but stupidly just set it in a creek to float away, instead of burning it (duh!). So then in Japan or somewhere on the beach, two kids hear the African drumming coming out of the board ahead and they rush towards it in curiosity and delight at their finding. Oh boy! Maybe this means there will be sequel! Then, we can learn where this game came from and how and why it does what it does.