Jungle Cruise

I had such a fun time watching this! Yes it was sometimes cheesy or corny but that was part of the charme and the movie did so fully knowing what they were doing. The chemistry between the main cast was great even tho it's a bit strange to see The Rock in a romantic way... It's like Indiana Jones without the sexist bs plus lgbt representation. I didn't mind the cgi, in IMAX everything looked great.

Emily Blunt & Dwayne Johnson Were Truly Fantastic In This Movie - A Disney Joy Ride Turned Into A Movie With A Great Story & The Perfect Cast

Never A Dull Moment In This Movie - It Has This Indiana Jones/Jumanji Feel That You Can't Help Yourself But Laugh - And I Loved The Feel And How Colorful The Movie Was - It Truly Delivers On Being An Entertaining Movie And It Ends With A Smile - If You Haven't Seen It You Should

Good fun popcorn Disney movie 🍿

To me this was great entertainment. A really nice rollercoaster of adventure with healthy dose of humour and fantasy.

Dwayne Johnson is indeed one of my favourite actors these days and he makes a good performance as the somewhat crazy riverboat captain which is (a lot) more than he seems.

This movie is meant to entertain and nothing else. I am quite happy that, despite it being a new Disney production, there’s really not much in terms of woke bullshit preaching in there. A little bit rubbish, especially at the end, but it’s bearable. Maybe Disney has learned the lesson as to how much that crap actually hits the bottom line.

The movie is really a non-stop (almost) rollercoaster of action a ‘la Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider but with a more humorous slant to it. Some people complain about God knows what from the music score to the jokes to the camera movement to whatever. It’s a movie that are just supposed to entertain from start to finish without having to be deep, realistic or delivering some sort of message and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that. Rather the inverse actually. It was great to just disconnect and watch the adventure and action.

As I said, Dwayne Johnson did his role nicely as the riverboat Captain, Frank Wolff, but most of the rest of the main characters was quite okay. Sure, Frank’s jokes were cringeworthy but then, they were meant to be. MacGregor Houghton was at times a bit annoying but at times quite hilarious. I quite liked when Frank threw his ridiculously large luggage overboard although it was of course quite predictable.

The weakest character was probably Prince Joachim who was mostly silly. He wasn’t far out enough to be a really noteworthy crazy psychopath but not “normal” enough to be taken seriously.

If I should complain about anything it would be that the manoeuvres that wreck of Frank’s performed was, well, not very realistic although it was not as bad as that “handbrake turn” the idiot script writer wrote into Battleship. That one pretty much ruined the movie. Then, there’s also no way the Amazon river is deep enough for a bloody submarine.

I watched this movie with my kids and girlfriend and we all had a really good time watching it.

Indiana Jones and the Tears of the Moon

Frank's tour guide by-line -- the set-ups, the jokes -- reminded me of my last ride on the Jungle Cruise at Disneyland. Our guide was as talented a speaker as Steve Martin must've been when he worked in similar roles at Disneyland in his youth, and, it was so much more entertaining than I remember it when I was a child. I honestly don't know whether or not I was just too young to understand it as a child but I know as an adult the tour guide made it their own, and it was great! My point is our guide on the Jungle Cruise ride at Disneyland was better than Rock Johnson. Those experiences melded with this story, visuals and acting to make it much more meaningful for me.

The Rock did surpass our ride's guide as his character is developed (As they say in Robot Chikan [sic]: "What a twist!" haha).

Jesse Plemons is the kind of bad guy I love to hate, I just remember him so well from Breaking Bad and El Camino.

I've always enjoyed Disney movies for having an emotional climax...something I've called, "The Disney Moment," that fell somewhere between the story's climax and denouement. I hope for, and expect it. That line has become somewhat blurred and nuanced as the productions become grander and more complex, but there are still many of the hallmarks of the Disney films of my tween years here, and of course the [spoiler] happy ending [/spoiler].

Well if you are expecting a history lesson, not this one. Also, if you are expecting something less campy, wrong place. It's not Indiana Jones because Dwayne Johnson is not Harrison Ford.

If you want a little bit of light hearted fun, fantasy and okay to watch with kids, or even as a light hearted adult that doesn't want too serious, fun fantasy, with a bit of female empowerment, this is great.

BTW, if you have girls or boys that you want to grow up respecting women as they should, the story is going to give them that.

I enjoyed it. It could have been better but it‘s definitely an entertaining adventure flick.