'Jungle Cruise' review
, as it's Disney's best chance in a long while to create their first"new to cinema" live-action franchise outside of the MCU since in 2003. Those are just two obvious reference points for this fitfully amusing but ultimately hollow adventure comedy. The others are However, despite a game cast and some moments of high comedy and knowing charm, the film never crafts an identity of its own.
The film is based on the Disney park attraction, one noted for its skewed sarcasm and a non-stop orgy of groan-worthy puns and"dad jokes." Set in 1916, stars Blunt as Dr. Lily Houghton, a brilliant and persistent botany expert trying to convince her chauvinistic peers to fund a mission to find the so-called"Tree of Life," which is believed to possess healing powers.
Things get off to a solid start, with small-stakes adventures and groaner humor fashioned around the actual Jungle Cruise ride. But once our heroic trio our out to sea, it becomes a paint-by-numbers story, with the action quickly becoming gratuitous, frantic and narratively arbitrary. I'm not one to complain about"Too much CGI," but there are too many set pieces that are essentially dominated by seemingly random effects-driven peril that will remind you of the first .
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