When you are older the animation in this film doesn't scare you. They did the best that they could do and at the age that we were, living in the time that we were living, the animation was terrifying, the Lion was realistic, the spiders were still a little scary and the elephants were as good as they were in the Lion King.
The children are genius'. With so much focus on Robin Williams the children passed by unnoticed but Peter and Judy (Kirsten Dunst) are the key to everything. Reverse psychology and emotions being used in a very clever way, they keep Alan (Robin Williams) going when he is determined to no longer continue playing the game. Twenty six years on and he doesn't realise that he has to finish the game until the children convince him to continue playing. The world moved on without him and he needs to go back twenty six years by completing the game so that he can live in his intended life time and not lose twenty six years.Jumanji is a film in which you admire Robin Williams for being serious in this film. He is known for being funny but this role wasn't a comical one. He never changes much about his physical appearance, he often looks like Robin Williams and sounds like Robin Williams but becomes a different character through his emotion and determination. He can pull off anything. Run around dressed like Tarzan- yeah, why not? He can do that as well. Fight a lion and shut it in the bedroom? No problem. The game calls to children but you should never try to cheat it because you end up being rather seriously punished by the game. If you were to watch this film as a child you would probably be afraid of ever playing a board game again and might even convince yourself that you were hearing noises. As a child this film is scary. Kind of like 'Gremlins' it does need to be a film watched by adults and not children.
I wont love this film but all Robin Williams films are good and worth watching.
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