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The kids-turned-adult heroes of the previous 'Jumanji' are joined by oldsters Danny DeVito and Danny Glover in Jake Kasdan's sequel.

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00:00I missed you so much.

00:01Oh my God, you guys, hi.

00:03Bethany.

00:04You guys, we're back in Jumanji.

00:06Jumanji The Next Level swings into theaters

00:09on Friday, December 13th,

00:10and the reviews are starting to roll in.

00:12The movie sees the last film's heroes

00:14as they plan to unite over winter break,

00:16after having moved on to separate cities

00:18for college and other pursuits.

00:20As they return to Jumanji to rescue one of their own,

00:23they discover that nothing is as they expect,

00:26and the game has changed.

00:28Grandpa, eh?

00:29Morning.

00:30Did you guys see Spencer?

00:33Who's that?

00:33I think he went back in.

00:34We gotta go get him.

00:35The squad must explore parts unknown

00:37of the world's most dangerous game.

00:39But what else is different this time around?

00:41Well, according to John DeFore's review

00:42for The Hollywood Reporter,

00:44the twist here is that the mortals

00:45don't become the same characters they played

00:47the last time they entered this world.

00:50Are we in Florida?

00:52Oh my God.

00:53Wait.

00:54We're in the wrong body!

00:56My joints feel like butter.

00:58Ooh, no.

00:59DeFore also writes in his review,

01:01the mission our heroes are given

01:02is even flimsier than the one in the first film,

01:04but it affords many changes of scenery,

01:07from ice mountain castles to North African medinas

01:09to a sea of desert dunes stalked by hundreds

01:12of fast-moving deadly ostriches.

01:14We're not going to make it.

01:15We're gonna make it.

01:16I don't think we're gonna make it.

01:17We're gonna make it.

01:19We're gonna make it.

01:20Oh my God!

01:22Oh!

01:22DeFore continues,

01:23DeFore continues,

01:24given how well the film does with giant,

01:26totally imaginary action scenes like this,

01:28it's disappointing that FX artists

01:30don't try a little harder

01:31to make small-scale moments look real.

01:33The acrobatic exploits of Ruby Roundhouse,

01:35for instance, look distractingly fake at times.

01:38Maybe that's deliberate,

01:39given that this is, after all, a video game,

01:42but it's not at the same level

01:43of believable rendering we see elsewhere.

01:45For more from The Hollywood Reporter's review

01:47of Jumanji The Next Level, go to THR.com.

01:49Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News,

01:51I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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