‘Jumanji’ goes to third level
View(s):The third of the Jumanji installment, ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’, the fantasy adventure movie directed by Jake Kasdan is now being screened at theatres in and around Colombo.
The film follows 1995’s ‘Jumanji’ and 2017’s ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’.
Written by Kasdan, Jeff Pinkner, and Scott Rosenberg, reprising the roles from the last version, the film stars Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, Alex Wolff, Morgan Turner, Ser’Darius Blain, and Madison Iseman. Awkwafina, Danny Glover, and Danny DeVito join the cast as newcomers.
A year after the events of the previous film, friends Spencer Gilpin, Anthony “Fridge” Johnson, Martha Kaply and Bethany Walker have graduated high school and gone their separate ways. Bethany is travelling the world performing community service, Martha has become a popular girl in college while Fridge has been working out extensively. To celebrate the holidays, they arrange a reunion at Nora’s diner in Brantford, New Hampshire.
Meanwhile, Spencer has encountered a rough patch in his life while attending college in New York. Unhappy with his lowly supermarket job, he has also put his long-distance relationship with Martha on hold. When he returns home, he finds his maternal grandfather Eddie sharing his room while he recovers from hip surgery. That night, as Spencer and Eddie discuss their problems, Eddie tells his grandson that college is the best time of one’s life and that things are destined to go downhill as one grows older.
Despairing that his life is ever going to improve, Spencer decides to re-don the persona of Dr. Smolder Bravestone within the Jumanji video game. Retrieving the broken pieces of the game which he had secretly kept, he repairs it to a barely-working condition and reactivates it.
The next morning, Spencer’s three friends are baffled when he fails to show up for their scheduled reunion and visit his house looking for him. There, they meet Eddie and his estranged friend Milo Walker, learning that the two men were once joint owners of Nora’s and had fallen out after Milo chose to retire. While searching for Spencer, the threesome hear the dreaded drum beats of Jumanji and discover the game running in his basement. Reluctantly, they all decide to re-enter the game in order to rescue him.
Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label, ‘Jumanji: The Next Level’
is imported by skyline Entertainment Limited and the film is now being screened at Colombo City Centre and other theatres around Colombo.
