Jumanji
TriStar Pictures | Release Date: December 15, 1995 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
41
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 19 Critic Reviews
Positive:
4
Mixed:
9
Negative:
6
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38
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
The film is a gloomy special-effects extravaganza filled with grotesque images, generating fear and despair. Read full review
30
Washington PostRita Kempley
The script boasts more writers than the computerized menagerie's got megabytes, but they haven't come up with much variety or humor in what is essentially a string of catastrophes. Read full review
30
Los Angeles TimesJack Mathews
Something bad happened on the way from the book to the movie. [15Dec1995 Pg. F.01]
25
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
Mostly trite and tacky despite Robin Williams's strenuous acting. Read full review
20
NewsweekJohn Leland
Director Joe Johnston ("Honey, I Shrunk the Kids") turns this fantasy into a mean-spirited exercise in terror. Read full review
10
TimeRichard Corliss
Director Joe Johnston's elaborately dressed kids' movie--about a board game that sucks its players into a perilous jungle overrun by lions, rhinos, monkeys, crocodiles and spiders--spends so much time on the how of special effects that it neglects the why of characterization. Read full review
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