I watched the new Jumanji last night. I was just past the age of enjoying the first one back in the 1990s, but younger siblings loved it. I wasn’t particularly interested in watching this one either, but the GF put it one whilst we were having tea and I stayed on to finish it.
It was quite entertaining: four peculiarly pimply high school students get transported into a video game where they take on the personae of the characters. Hilariously, the nerd becomes the Rock, the geeky unpopular girl becomes a red headed ninja, the black football player becomes the black mousy scientist, and the cheerleader becomes Jack Black. It was played reasonably well despite all this, a few obvious laughs and a pleasing number of less obvious ones. It had a good villain too, a one-eyed darkly handsome fellow with insects coming out of his orifices, and who was not overplayed. A pleasant time-spend, as they say.