When you have Dwayne Johnson in your film, you gain the added bonus of a social media whirlwind promoter and a charismatic anchor for any marketing. So it is with this new featurette for Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle.
As this new footage is at pains to make clear, the new movie aims to continue the story of Jumanji rather than rebooting it, while at the same time taking characters into the world (this time a video game version) instead of it leaking into ours.
The story finds four teens (Alex Wolff's Spencer, Madison Iseman's Bethany, Ser'Darius Blain's Anthony "Fridge" Johnson and Morgan Turner's Martha) in trouble at school for various minor infractions. Assigned to clear out a junk-strewn basement, they stumble upon a video game version of Jumanji and give it a go, only to find themselves transported into the jungle environs as their avatars.
Johnson ramps up his usual blend of action cockiness and comic vulnerability to play Dr. Smolder Bravestone, with Karen Gillan as typical video game female avatar Ruby Roundhouse, Kevin Hart as Moose Finbar and Jack Black (as Bethany's confused stand-in, Professor Shelly Oberon). Together, they'll have to learn to survive...
According to Johnson, the film wants to capture the "holiday feeling of wonderment", so see if that's how you react. The movie storms UK cinemas on 20 December.
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