{"id":42330,"date":"2017-12-20T01:53:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T06:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/?p=42330"},"modified":"2018-12-08T22:03:06","modified_gmt":"2018-12-09T03:03:06","slug":"new-releases-december-20-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmbuffonline.com\/FBOLNewsreel\/wordpress\/2017\/12\/20\/new-releases-december-20-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"New Releases: December 20, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s the start of the Christmas Holiday Weekend so Hollywood is bring out new films just a bit earlier this week to sacrifice to the\u00a0Star Wars: The Last Jedi\u00a0<\/strong>juggernaut.<\/p>\n

\"\"1. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (Sony\/Columbia, 3,765 Theaters, 119 Minutes, Rated PG-13 for adventure action, suggestive content and some language, Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer at press time: 80% Fresh<\/a> [74 Reviews]): <\/strong>My problem with the first Jumanji<\/strong> was the game itself. No board game looked like it did, played like it did or would have had a story like that one did. Technically, that was the point, but it made it hard for me to suspend disbelieve enough to go along with the film.<\/p>\n

This time around, with this quasi-sequel, the concept seems to work better. We still have the game affecting the reality of the players, but this time they are sucked into a video game instead of the game expanding into the real world. The way the characters have to be beholden to video game physics seems way more believable.<\/p>\n

Speaking of sequels, this film is also an ipso facto sequel to\u00a0Orange County<\/strong> because it reunites director Jake Kasdan with Jack Black and Colin Hanks.<\/p>\n