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TheJumanjimovies have seen four entire outlet in the series , with only three using the actual franchise name . What started as a tike ’s picture book in 1981 has become a genuine dealership , with the first four films grossing more than $ 1 billion worldwide over three decades , and have love a surprising amount of critical succeeder . The original Chris Van Allsburg book premise Judy and Peter Shepherd , who encounter a biz call Jumanji that transport them into it – real - life animals and all .
The first film , Jumanji , remained true to the book , buteach subsequent movie transform the construct uniquely . Most recently , the franchise employed a big - budget action mechanism clowning formula , tramp stars Kevin Hart , Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson , and Jack BlackforJumanji : Welcome To The JungleandJumanji : The Next Levelwith overpowering success . With four film formally out and the enfranchisement zoom , another one is coming , with a 5th moving-picture show in the body of work and the hereafter still looks smart for the series .
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Movie Title
Director
1995
Jumanji
Joe Johnston
2005
Zathura : A Space Adventure
Jon Favreau
2017
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Jumanji : Welcome To The Jungle
Jake Kasdan
2019
Jumanji : The Next tier
Dwayne Johnson has an impressive survey of many unequaled pic , however , his career does include one strange trend : movies taking place in the hobo camp .
4Zathura: A Space Adventure(2005)
Directed By Jon Favreau
Cast
Zathura : A Space Adventurecontains no direct link toJumanji , but is turn over the second picture show in theJumanjifranchise since the tyke ’s record book it was based on , Zathura , was Chris Van Allsburg ’s continuation to the original book . Jon Favreau directs a shape that includes a young Josh Hutcherson and Kristen Stewart as they find theZathuragame in their sign of the zodiac , which , similar toJumanji , come to life story as they play . This time , however , it ’s a space dangerous undertaking , put back monkey and elephant with meteoroid and alien .
Zathurawas easy the defective box office staff performer in theJumanjifranchise .
Zathurawas easily the worst box office performing artist in theJumanjifranchise , finagle only $ 64 million on a $ 65 million budget . But as a whole , it ’s a play movie . The special effects remain top - nick , and the storytelling manoeuvre at a high horizontal surface , offer thrills and sense of humor without venturing into the occasionally melancholy territory that its predecessor dabbled with . There ’s no Robin Williams , but overall it ’s a more enjoyable experience for the Kid .
3Jumanji(1995)
Directed By Joe Johnston
release in 1995,Jumanjibecame a staple of the ' 90s . It assembled an all - star mould , feature a young Kirsten Dunst , Bonnie Hunt , David Alan Grier , andRobin Williams in his iconic role as Alan Parrish – a humankind trapped in theJumanjigame for 26 years . In the film , Judy ( Dunst ) and her brother Peter ( Bradley Pierce ) light upon the game in the attic of their new menage — the Parrish mansion where Alan disappeared in 1969 . As the game comes to life , they attempt to free Alan , while their township becomes absorb in the adventure .
With Jumanji : The Next Level arriving in theaters this calendar month , the winner of the franchise can be traced to how little it follows the original Word .
Like the third entry in the series over two decades later , the originalJumanjibecame a sleeper smash , wide regard for its ocular effects . They were spectacular , as conductor Joe Johnston ( The Rocketeer , Captain America : The First Avenger ) brought the animals and environments from the game to life . The taradiddle was grim for a kids ' movie , and the script weirdly approached the trauma the characters underwent . It sputter to maintain a consistent tonus throughout , something the subsequent films did a better job with .
2Jumanji: The Next Level (2019)
Directed By Jake Kasdan
Jumanji : The Next Levelretained all the element that made the enfranchisement ’s successful 2017 reboot well than the original two plastic film : humor , a originative handwriting , and a cast that had literal chemistry . The sequel picks up a year afterWelcome To The Jungle , as the high school student be after to contact up a year after they escaped the video biz version ofJumanji(in 2019 , the N64 - style game is view a relic ) .
Dwayne " The Rock " Johnson , Kevin Hart , Jack Black , and Karen Gillan all return as the biz ’s avatars , but with different characters inside of them : Black is now high school athlete Fridge , Johnson is now Eddie Gilpin , original main character Spencer ’s grandad ( Danny DeVito ) , and Hart is now Eddie ’s previous friend Milo ( Danny Glover ) .
Here ’s a complete breakdown of the cast and characters in Jumanji : The Next Level , the 2019 continuation to 2017 ’s Jumanji : Welcome to the Jungle .
Watching the cast extend their range further is a joy in the continuation , and they go on to show effortless chemistry despite playing entirely new characters . Director Jake Kasdan(Walk Hard ) returns and mixes a hard blend of humor and military action that hit for an entertaining slip to the house . TheJumanjisequels are really the bestJumanjimovies . Overall , The Next Levelis more of the same fromWelcome To The Jungle – which is not a unsound thing at all .
1Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle (2017)
Released in 2017,Jumanji : Welcome To The Junglewas a massive bang that came out of nowhere , grossing nearly a billion dollar at the worldwide box office . Released 22 year after the original motion picture , the 2017 version sport four in high spirits shoal educatee who get enthral inside theJumanjivideo gamewhen they encounter in detention .
Once inside , they are given avatar that collide with their personality ; the nerdy small fry becomes a strong Internet Explorer with no weakness ( Dwayne Johnson ) , the jock becomes a inadequate animal scientist ( Kevin Hart ) , the timid miss becomes a badass warrior ( Karen Gillan ) , and the democratic girl becomes an fleshy male cartographer ( Jack Black ) .
The cast is marvellous , especially Black , who give one of the better comedic performances of his life history
This could have been little more than throwaway merriment , but the endowment gather turned it into a much better photographic film than it had any right to be . The cast is marvellous , specially Black , who gives one of the practiced comedic performance of his career playing a self - absorbed gamy school girl nonplus in a piece ’s trunk . Johnson is excellent at playing a jerk , too . All of it is tied together nicely by conductor Jake Kasdan , who mixes an appropriate amount of humor and action into a supremely entertaining package . It ’s the bestJumanjimovie there is .
A Fifth Jumanji Movie Is Confirmed
The fourth movie in theJumanjifranchise was release in theaters in 2019 but it wo n’t be the last . Producer Hiram Garcia confirmed a fifthJumanjimovie . Garcia is also one of the producer of Disney’sJungle Cruisemovie , which also starred Dwayne Johnson . Whenspeaking with Colliderabout potential sequels for bothJungle Cruiseand theJumanjimovies , to the delight of lover , Garcia confirmed that anotherJumanjimovie is on the means .
" We in reality have a bang-up take on what we ’re decease to do for the next moving picture . So I know in talking with Jake [ Kasdan ] , once he comes clear of ‘ Red One ’ , that ’s pass to be his next precedence for him and that ’s something we decidedly require to make . "
Red Onecomes out in 2024 , and there is no word on whether Kasdan is actively exercise on the nextJumanjimovie . Karen Gillian , who recreate Ruby Roundhouse , said it is hard have all these actors together since everyone stays in use . " I ’m sure it ’s tricky to wrangle everyone ’s schedules , but I have n’t heard anything about it other than the fact that we will be doing it at some point in time . “This is serious news and sorry news , as it means there is no set schedule to make the moving picture , but the actress sound convinced that a newJumanjimovie is coming in the future tense .
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