Salt Lake Tribune · Dec 10, 2019
Review: ‘Jumanji’ sequel has more action with less excitement
(Photo courtesy of Columbia Pictures) The video game avatars (from left: Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Awkwafina and Dwayne Johnson) face a new challenge in "Jumanji: The Next Level."Hacking through the jungle of overloaded action in “Jumanji: The Next Level,” a sequel to the 2017 action movie about teens trapped in a video game, a viewer has lots of time to think about the lost opportunities the movie passes up.
This haphazardly structured movie, which throws random events up on the screen in no particular order, has some elements that are entertaining. Finding those nuggets takes a lot of sifting through the dirt, though.