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GenreAction, Adventure & Comedy
RatedPG-13
Runtime1 hr 59 mins
ReleasedDecember 20, 2017
StreamingSee Where to Watch
DirectorJake Kasdan
StarringDwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017)
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| Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle's Details | |
| Genre | Action, Adventure & Comedy |
| Rated | PG-13 |
| Released | 12/05/2017 (Grand Rex); 12/20/2017 (United States) |
| Streaming | See Where to Watch on this page. |
| Running Time | 1 hr 59 mins |
| Budget | $90M (reported) |
| Box Office | Updated daily from Box Office Mojo. See the numbers below. |
| Based On | Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg, Jumanji by Greg Taylor and Jim Strain and Chris Van Allsburg and Jonathan Hensleigh |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle's Interests | |
| General | Character select screens, three-stripe tattoos, smoldering intensity, rhinos, a very big jewel. |
| Music | Henry Jackman. A jungle adventure score with a video game wink. |
| Movies | Jumanji (1995). The board game version. Robin Williams, drums, stampedes. |
| Television | Ballers. Dwayne Johnson again, far fewer jaguars. |
| Heroes | Shelly Oberon. Jack Black playing a teenage girl, flawlessly. |
| Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle's Crew | |
| Director | Jake Kasdan |
| Writers | Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg, Jeff Pinkner, Chris McKenna (story) |
| Producers | Matt Tolmach, William Teitler |
| Cinematography | Gyula Pados |
| Music | Henry Jackman |
| Edited By | Mark Helfrich, Steve Edwards |
| Production | Columbia Pictures, Matt Tolmach Productions, Seven Bucks Productions, Radar Pictures |
| Distributed By | Sony Pictures Releasing |
Bugs crawl out of the villain’s face in Jumanji and he still makes zero impression. Bobby Cannavale deserved more than a guy who growls about a jewel. Luckily nobody came for him. They came for Jack Black playing a teenage girl stuck inside a middle-aged professor, and he’s the funniest thing in it by a mile, all posture and phone withdrawal. Dwayne Johnson does a great nervous nerd in a giant body, Kevin Hart yells his way through being tiny, and Karen Gillan’s dance fighting is goofy in the best way. The game rules, with limited lives and a guide character who repeats the same line, are a smart joke. Trouble is, everything between the jokes is a theme park ride with a plot on a sticky note. Made $962.5 million worldwide, which is wild for a sequel nobody was begging for. A 6.6 because it’s a better time than it has any right to be. $30.53 says you catch yourself checking your forearm for extra lives tomorrow.
What works: Jack Black’s teen-girl performance, The Rock playing scared, and video game jokes like the guide who keeps repeating himself.
What doesn’t: The villain is a nothing role, and the action between the jokes is generic jungle running and CGI animals.
Who it’s for: Families who want one movie the kids and the parents will both be quoting in the car.
Spoilers
The group wins by returning the jewel to the jaguar statue and wakes up back in their own bodies. Alex, the player who’d been stuck in the game for years, makes it home to his own time and grows up into a dad, and the kids smash the console.
Four high schoolers land in detention together: nervous gamer Spencer (Alex Wolff), football star Fridge (Ser'Darius Blain), selfie queen Bethany (Madison Iseman) and loner Martha (Morgan Turner). In the school basement they find a dusty video game console, pick their characters, and get sucked straight into a jungle. Now Spencer is buff explorer Dr. Smolder Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson), Fridge is pint-sized Mouse Finbar (Kevin Hart), Martha is martial artist Ruby Roundhouse (Karen Gillan), and Bethany is a middle-aged map expert, Professor Shelly Oberon (Jack Black). To get home, they have to win the game. Jake Kasdan directs. One hundred nineteen minutes, three lives each.
Gamers who read the weakness list before picking. Keep the cake away from Mouse.
| Dwayne Johnson | Spencer Gilpin |
| Kevin Hart | Anthony "Fridge" Johnson |
| Jack Black | Bethany Walker |
| Karen Gillan | Martha Kaply |
| Rhys Darby | Nigel Billingsley |
| Bobby Cannavale | Russell Van Pelt |
| Nick Jonas | Alex Vreeke |
- (cur | prev) 14:30, 17 October 2026 DataBot +520 Numbers refreshed: Worldwide box office $962.5M; Domestic box office $404.5M; Opening weekend $36.2M; Profit / loss (est.) +$346.3M; Rotten Tomatoes 77%; CinemaScore A−; box office chart updated; Rotten Tomatoes critics 77% (235 reviews); Metacritic 58 / 100; PostTrak audience 84% positive; CinemaScore A−; IMDb users 6.9 / 10 (513,921 votes); movie.guru score 6.1.
- (cur | prev) 12:00, 17 October 2026 DataBot +2,000 Profile created from Wikipedia and Box Office Mojo: cast, crew, release dates, budget, official trailer.