Jumanji

This is one movie that you should see if you haven´t seen it yet.

Jumanji is basically the story of four children that will meet because of a magical board game called Jumanji. Alan is one of them and he accidentally finds the game and invites his friend Sarah to play with him. As the game goes things start to happen and one of them is that Alan gets sucked into the game. Horrified Sarah flees and incidentally closes the game. Twenty five years or so pass and the game is accidentally found by two other kids, Judy and Peter, who realize the game is to be played by four people. They make their moves and each one brings a new surprise. sometimes is the appearance of giant insects or crazy and agressive monkeys or even a lion. One of their moves releases Alan who has spent twenty six years of his life inside a "jungle" within the game , a world within the board. Every time a move is made one part of that world invades reality. The grown up Alan (Robin Williams) will be fundamental to help Judy and Peter defend themselves from the threats that come out from the game that also include a relentless hunter   Together, Judy, Peter and Alan figure out that the only thing they can do is to finish the game and for that they need one of the original players: Sarah. They find her , an adult already, and they convince her to continue playing.

That is the basic premise but there is a lot happening in this really entertaining film that you can watch with the rest of your family since there is no sex, unnecessary violence or foul language, but a lot of creativity and also lots of hard work and the wisdom to put the right amount of everything where it corresponds. This movie shows Robin Williams at his best, and the visual effects have endured the test of time and the ending is particularly ingenious.

Five stars out of five for this one,