REVIEW: ‘Everything you see wants to kill you, and can,” warns skipper Frank Wolff, who by his own admission runs the cheapest yet the most thrilling jungle cruise. But their journey is fraught with action, adventure and enemies. This leads her to the Amazon Rainforest where she finds Frank Wolff (Dwayne Johnson), the brawny captain of a rickety old boat, who she hires for her mission.
Lily Houghton’s (Emily Blunt) quest for the ancient Tree of Life to save the mankind. As a wacky adventure serial, there may be enough to keep a viewer casually entertained, but Jungle Cruise feels too beholden to the Pirates formula without bringing anything exciting or fresh on its own imagination merits.STORY: Based on Disney's theme park ride, ‘Jungle Cruise’ is about Dr. This feels more creatively by committee and the heavily green screen action is harder to fully immerse with.
With Jungle Cruise, it feels like a lot of effort but also a lot of dropped or mishandled story and thematic elements. The competing character goals were so well established and developed in those movies and served as an anchor even amid the chaos of plot complications and double and triple crosses. With the Pirates films, at least the good ones, there are a lot of plot elements they need to keep in the air and you assume they're be able to land them as needed. The supernatural elements and curses feel extraneous and tacked on. It was not funny the first time and it's not funny or endearing after the 80th rendition. Johnson keeps referring to Blunt as "Pants" because she's a woman and she wears pants in the twentieth century. Their screwball combative banter between Johnson and Blunt gave me some smiles and entertainment and then, as they warm to one another, it sadly dissipated, as did my interest. I found myself also pulling away in the second half because of the inevitable romance. It gets quite convoluted and littered with lackluster villains, too many and too stock to ever establish as intriguing or memorable (one of them is a man made of honey, so that's a thing).
Then the second half turn involves a significant personal revelation, and that's where the movie felt like it was being folded and crushed into form to closely resemble the Pirates franchise. For the first half of the movie, it coasts on the charms of stars Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt and some light-footed visual misadventures. Disney turned a theme park ride that mostly involved sitting into a billion-dollar supernatural adventure franchise, so why not try another swing at reshaping its existing park properties into would-be blockbuster tentpoles? Jungle Cruise owes a lot to the Pirates of the Caribbean franchise, and actually owes a little too much for its own good.
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