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JUNGLE CRUISE – Review by Leslie Combemale

July 27, 2021July 29, 2021 Leslie Combemale disney, Dwayne Johnson, emily blunt, Jaume Collet-Serra, jungle cruise, theme park attraction movie

Whoever pitched Disney’s new feature Jungle Cruise must have been a master of hyperbole. “It’s The Mummy meets Pirates of the Caribbean meets African Queen, but imagine Katherine Hepburn as a younger, smokin’ yet independent English hottie, and add the highest paid actor in the world.” If there were ever a final argument for ‘there’s nothing new under the sun’, Jungle Cruise would be it.

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JUNGLE CRUISE – Review by Martha K Baker

July 27, 2021August 1, 2021 Martha K. Baker Dwayne Johnson, emily blunt, Jaume Collet-Serra, Jessie Plemons, jungle cruise, paul giamatti, wald disney studios

Erase all thoughts of Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn in African Queen from your mind. Delete scenes from Raiders of the Lost Ark. Pretend you’re back at Disneyland on the Jungle Cruise because it lasts eight minutes compared to the film’s 127. The film version equals a theme park ride in fake-itude. Jungle Cruise, loud and long, is about as solid as the floating vegetation on the Amazon River.

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JUNGLE CRUISE – Review by Susan Granger

July 27, 2021July 28, 2021 Susan Granger disney, Dwayne Johnson, emily blunt, jungle cruise, theme park attraction movie

Encouraged by the success of the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, Disney launches this fantasy/adventure, based on the theme park attraction. It begins in 1916 London, where intrepid botanist/explorer Lily Houghton sneaks into a snobbish science society to steal an arrowhead thought to be the key to finding the Tears of the Moon, a sacred tree hidden in the Amazon jungle whose petals have miraculous healing powers.