‘Welcome to the Jungle’

"A game for those who seek to find, a way to leave their world behind."

By seeing Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, one comes to know that the adventure here is moreover, surprisingly, a coming-of-age narrative. Our protagonists here are (well, firstly) in their young age, each of them imbibing different persona traits, rather different from each other; kind of personalities we sometimes meet during our own secondary school and college years.

And speaking of characters, the ensemble here have perfomed an admiring work, in fact, a challenging one I would say, where the characters are usually witnessed to be psychologically different from their physical characteristics. To add more though, Fridge as "Moose" (played by Kevin Hart) seemed much favourable to me, thanks to in terms of the sheer comic-timing which flows whenever the character comes up. And alongwith Bethany as "Professor Shelly" (played by Jack Black), the narrative humour is likely an icing on the cake.

Several conversations between the characters on each of their behaviours, highlights an introspect on the 'real' lives, which feels relevant. Like, when Professor Shelly informs "Ruby", "But do you think that maybe the reason why you are so judgy - is because you are like afraid that people are not gonna like you, so you've decided not to like them first?''

Gradually, we see our characters grow, which parallels with their actual ages of transition..

Which character would you, dear reader, choose to be? Or, as Spencer says just before he unexpectedly enters, "I don't think it matters that much.."
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Click the link to check out Welcome to the Jungle trailer..