“Who plays board games anymore?”
Look, I get it…when people see a reboot of their childhood fave, their first instinct is to angrily compare it to the original.
*Sinéad O’Connor’s “Nothing Compares 2U” plays softly in the distance.*
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However, with the Jumanji reimagining, they decided to flip the script on us just enough to let it stand on its own and honestly…it looks insanely fun.
In case you missed this first trailer, the basic gist is that a group of High Schoolers in detention find Jumanji in the form of an old school video game while cleaning a backroom, and are transported into the jungle world after they pick their avatars.
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Switching out the board game for a video game and the real world for the ~world of the game~ is REALLY COOL, OK? I JUST LIKE IT.
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And today we got our SECOND official trailer for the reboot, because the movie gods are good.
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