‘Jungle Cruise’ movie review: The family-friendly Disney adventure that keeps it safe and sad

Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt both put together a fun, entertaining ride full of monsters, magic, and terrifying puns

There’s nothing you haven’t seen before Jungle Cruise; Despite the excellent post-production, and the 3D is rendered really beautifully. except to remember pirates of the caribbean movie – think Jungle Cruise There’s Another Variation Of Theme Park Ride — Here’s Excerpts Indiana Jones Movies, Mother, And african queen.

That doesn’t mean the movie is boring. It’s good fun, a fun ride full of monsters, magic and terrifying sentences. Dwayne Johnson, as Steamboat Captain Frank, makes terrifying jokes and his chemistry with the trouser-wearing botanist Lily (Emily Blunt) is not sizzling, but good-natured and family-friendly. And he also has the cutest jaguar to have a pet.

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In 1556, when Aguirre (Édgar Ramírez) conquered the Amazon in search of a magical tree, Moon’s Tears, whose flowers would heal his daughter, the forest proved to be too much for them and they would finally have eternal life. cursed for. . The forest turns them into moving hives, trees and poisonous frog slime.

In 1916, the Royal Society rejected Lilly’s research on moon tears. Lily decides to head to the Amazon with her brother, McGregor (Jack Whitehall) to find flowers and aid in the British war effort.

Jungle Cruise

  • Director: Jaime Colette-Serra
  • Cast: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramirez, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, Paul Giamatti
  • Story Line: A botanist, his unassuming brother and a big beefy steamboat captain go to the Amazon in search of magical flowers
  • Run Time: 127 Minutes

Also discovering the flower is an unmarked German prince, Joachim (Jesse Plemons). Lily and McGregor arrive in Brazil and, after some adventures involving Frank’s rival – Harbor Master Nilo (Paul Giamatti) and his cockatoo Rosita – hire Frank to take him to the Legrimas de Cristal where the tree is supposed to be.

On his heels, in the U-boat no less, is Joachim, who decides to enlist the help of the undead conquerors. After obligatory encounters with Devil Throat-style waterfalls and head-hunters led by merchant Sam (Veronica Falcon), and a race against time, our fearless adventurers climb the tree. Frank reveals a secret about himself, McGregor hardens and Lily tries her hand at Frank-style humor.

While Johnson is too daring to play an Indiana Jones-style adventurer, he is good-natured and rolls his eyes and muscles well. With McGregor’s interests lying “elsewhere,” it’s yet another Disney half-stab. Blunt’s Lily follows Katharine Hepburn’s long tradition of book women of the Rose african queen Rachel Weisz’s Evie In. For Mother. However, she is adept at picking up the locks she learned from Urchin in Delhi and throws an average punch.

All goes well in the end, but what happened to Proxima, the Jaguar? Maybe the sequel will tell us.

Jungle Cruise is currently playing in theaters

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