Many of the same jokes are trotted out again. If you liked the original, you'll enjoy this one too. And a new avatar - Ming Fleetfoot - is fabulous in the form of Awkwafina, so brilliant in this year's 'The Farewell'.

Glover and DeVito are at their cranky best, and introduce a genuinely touching moment into the film. The newcomers to the cast are also welcome. Even Nigel 'Welcome to Jumanji' Billingsley (Rhys Darby) returns, this time swapping his jeep for a plane. Nick Jonas and his older real-life player Colin Hanks are back. The four avatar leads (Dwayne Johnson, Karen Gillan, Jack Black and Kevin Hart) all return, together with the young teens (Alex Wolff, Morgan Turner, Ser'Darius Blain and Madison Iseman). The stars were all persuaded back for another ride. There is new fun to be mined here from the now nimble-again Eddie and the slow-talking and laconic Milo never quite getting to the point in time.

The script team had to do something different here, and they did that by mixing up the avatars (including a surprising equine player) and throwing in the 'pensioners' to the mix. But the same fun, with exploding avatars and dangerous cake, is to be had again. Yes, there's a different backdrop with desert and mountain 'levels' to play through. A 'next level' indeed! This is very much 'much of the same' from the first film. When they get there though, things have changed and the mission is a different one. But the console is unpredictable and when the game sucks people into Jumanji this time it's not just Spencer and two of his friends that go in, but Spencer's Grandpa Eddie (Danny DeVito) and his old friend Milo (Danny Glover). On returning to his home town for the holidays, Spencer fixes the shattered game. Spencer is struggling mentally lacking in confidence and momentum and desperate to feel like 'Smoulder' Bravestone again. A sequel was inevitable We rejoin the cast some time after the events of the first film, and the geeky teenage lovers - Spencer and Bethany - are trying, unsuccessfully, to carry on their long distance relationship while at separate colleges. During the spring of 2018, this was an almost permanent resident at the multiplexes (until 'The Greatest Showman' and 'Mamma Mia: Here We Go Again' took over the residence for the rest of the year!).

This was also a film that raked in a HUGE return at the box office, getting close to the billion dollar number on its $90 million budget. But this rather belies my secret love of the movie: it is a film that I can invariably watch and enjoy again and again. Reading my review again, I was rather po-faced about it and scored it with a rather measly 7/10. I expected it to be a tired retread of the original classic, but instead it turned into a highly entertaining action comedy. One of the pleasant movie surprises of Christmas 2017 for me was 'Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle'.

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