Jumanji

KAAN''IN SANAL ÜLKESİNE HOŞ GELDİNİZ

Tür
Macera / Aksiyon / Komedi
Yönetmen
Joe Johnston
Senaryo
Greg Taylor , Jim Strain , Chris Van Allsburg , Jonathan Hensleigh , Chris Van Allsburg (Kitap)
Görüntü Yönetmeni
Thomas E. Ackerman
Müzik
James Horner
Yapım
1995, ABD , 104 dk.

Oyuncular
Robin Williams (1995'teki Alan Parrish) , Jonathan Hyde (Samuel Alan Parrish / Avcı Van Pelt) , Kirsten Dunst (Judy Shepherd) , Bradley Pierce (Peter Shepherd) , Bonnie Hunt (1995'teki Sarah Whittle) , Bebe Neuwirth (Nora Teyze) , David Alan Grier (Carl Bentley) , Patricia Clarkson (Carol Anne Parrish) , Adam Hann-Byrd (1969'daki Alan Parrish) , Laura Bell Bundy (1969'daki Sarah Whittle)

Bir kız ve erkek kardeşi eski ve esrarengiz bir masa üstü aile oyununu keşfedip oynamaya başladıklarında, aynı oyun tarafından 26 yıl önce yutulmuş Alan Parrish'in serbest kalmasına sebep olurlar. Yutulduğu zaman onlar gibi bir çocuk olan Parrish şimdi koca bir adamdır.

Oysa oyun bitmemiştir ve önce evleri sonra tüm kasaba oyunun içinden çıkıp gelen muzip maymunlar, yok edici gergedanlar, filler, aslanlar ve her türden hayvan tarafından işgal edilmeye başlanır. Yarım kalan oyunu durdurmanın tek yolu, tabii ki oyunu kazanıp bitirmektir. Peki kahramanlarımız bunu anladıklarında her şey için çok mu geç olmuştur?

90'lı yılların en eğlendirici filmlerinden biri olan Jumanji, sadece Robin Williams'ın parıltılı oyunculuğuyla değil, aralarında o zamanki çocuk oyuncu Kirsten Dunst'un da bulunduğu geniş kadrosuyla ve elbette mükemmel özel efektleriyle uzun yıllar unutulmayacak bir film.

Young Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd) discovered the ornate Jumanji board in 1969, when he was just twelve. When he sits down to play it for the first time with his reluctant friend Sarah (Laura Bell-Bundy), strange things immediately begin to happen. After Alan rolls a certain number on the dice, he is transported into the jungle realm of Jumanji, disappearing before Sarah's startled eyes. Because Sarah is too frightened to finish the game, Alan remains trapped in the rainforests of Jumanji for 26 years until two new children, Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce), sit down to play the game in the attic of Alan's childhood home.

When the children roll the designated number that will free Alan, he pops back into a 38 year-old survivor (Robin Williams) of the all-too-real and all-too-deadly world of Jumanji. If Alan, Judy and Peter can find the now adult Sarah (Bonnie Hunt), they have a chance to finish the game -- or risk that their house, neighborhood and hometown be taken over by the elephants, crocodiles, spiders and other denizens of the fascinating, seemingly unstoppable force called Jumanji ... forever.

Director Joe Johnston's "Jumanji" is a wild, "Twilight Zone" - type movie. It answers the question of what would happen, if a board game had real, far reaching consequences, where participants really "played for keeps?" What if a child landed on an unlucky square, and wound up being physically trapped within the board game, and not released until 26 years later? What would happen to the trapped child's family, and other people involved in the child's life, because he wasn't there with them? How would this alter the history of all concerned and involved? After the screenplay went through a total of 7 rewrite drafts, a masterful film is the result. "Jumanji is an emotionally powerful, imaginative adventure, that combines breathtaking special effects, with an enchanting mixture of comedy, magic and thrills."

The basic story involves a boy, Alan Parish (Adam Hann-Byrd), in 1969, who discovers such an amazing, time-changing board game. When he plays it with a girl that he really likes, he lands on an unlucky square, and is sucked into the game board, which totally scares the girl, Sarah Whittle (Laura Bundy) who runs from the house, stopping their game. Trapped in the game's horrid jungle for 26 years, Alan (Robin Williams) freed in 1995 when two young kids, Judy and Peter Shepard (Kristen Dunst and Bradley Pierce) find the same horrific game. After the other original 1969 player, Sara, who is now a woman (Bonnie Hunt), is convinced to rejoin the game, all 4 participants continue to play the game, with amazing consequences, and find themselves having to use all the courage that they can muster, to try to outwit the game's "powerful forces," in order to survive, and perhaps fix history, so time will be changed back to what was supposed to happen, before all was changed because of this havoc-causing board game.

The film features strong direction, fast pacing, a strong cast, clever writing, and incredible FX of rampaging elephants, rhino, monkeys, man (and car) eating plants, monsoons, and more, all which slowly turn the 4 story Georgian mansion into the Jumanji jungle.

Favorite Scenes include: I really liked a scene where the house is flooded by a monsoon, and Williams and the kids must cope with raging waters AND a giant, hungry crocodile. Also, the giant spider scene is realistically creepy, and the rampage of the hunter chasing the participants all through the k-mart type store is exciting.

Although primarily marketed to kids, some of whom were scared by the realistic special effects, it offers plenty of entertainment for adults, and older children, who enjoy a suspenseful, thrilling adventure, that tests to the limit it's characters courage and wits.

Directed by: Joe Johnston. Screenplay by: Jonathan Hensleigh, Greg Taylor & Jim Strain - Based on the award winning 1981 children's book, by Chris Van Allsburg, who helped develop the story's ideas.