Review – Jumanji

The special effects are the clear star of this odd tale of a board game with the power to spread havoc whenever it’s played. A boy who plays the game in 1969 ends up sucked into its bizarre jungle world, re-emerging 26 years later as Robin Williams when next the game is played. Every time a player rolls the dice, some new kind of animal or other jungle-related peril escapes into the real world. The result is a lot of cute, computer-animated animals, a lot of amusing if implausible situations and not a lot of anything else. Mildly amusing