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Jumanji - snakes and ladders with bite

Advantages: A fun and engaging story
Disadvantages: May be scary for younger children

FILM REVIEW ONLY Jumanji is a great family film with a very entertaining performance from funny-man Robin Williams, as well as some spectacular (if a little scary for young children) special effects. Jumanji is based on the children's book by Chris Van ...

bigmike33 27.10.2006 · Read full review
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Be careful what you play with!

Advantages: Fun, entertaining, full of charisma, you don't get bored
Disadvantages: Predictable ending

~-~-~-~-~-Nitty gritties~-~-~-~-~- Cast: Robin Williams, Kirsten Dunst, Bonnie Hunt, David Alan Grier, Jonathan Hyde Certificate: 12A Length: 100 minutes Year of release: 1996 ~-~-~-~-~The Plot~-~-~-~-~ The story begins with 12 year old Alan P ...

Chocolatyclaire 26.03.2007 · Read full review
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You will be scared to open a game box after this film..............

Advantages: A good family film, great acting by all.........
Disadvantages: none............

I don't normally go out of my way to see movies that are marketed to kids. I like more adult fare, but I have to say the trailers for this film intrigued me. The special effects looked, and are, amazing, with wild animals rampaging as the major draw. Unfo ...

moonlightmist 04.09.2000 · Read full review
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In a small, New England town, two orphaned kids (Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce) are brought by their aunt (Bebe Neuwirth) to live in a big, spooky old house where, twenty-six years earlier, a young boy mysteriously disappeared. They find a board game c ...

Mohammed 10.07.2000 · Read full review
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Give me Monopoly anyday

Advantages: Ok effects
Disadvantages: Everything overshadowed by the effects

If ever a film existed purely to showcase the CGI effects industry then this is it. Forget story, forget characters, and just expect some cutting edge(?) effects. The story is definitely a secondary thought but for what it's worth here goes: Young Alan ...

TheNeil 16.01.2001 · Read full review
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