Jungle Cruise

Jungle Cruise

Dr. Lily Houghton enlists the aid of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff to take her down the Amazon in his dilapidated boat. Together, they search for an ancient tree that holds the power to heal – a discovery that will change the future of medicine.

  • Released: 2021-07-28
  • Runtime: 127 minutes
  • Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
  • Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Edgar Ramírez, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, Paul Giamatti, Dani Rovira, Sulem Calderon, Veronica Falcón, Andy Nyman, Raphael Alejandro, Quim Gutiérrez, Mark Ashworth, David Lengel, Emily Marie Palmer, Ilana Kohanchi, Alfredo Tavares, Annika Pampel, Keith Arthur Bolden, Pedro López, Philipp Maximilian, Simone Lockhart, Piper Collins, Faith Fay, Justin Randell Brooke, Josué Gutierrez, Jason Szabo, Stephan Goldbach, Madeline Brumby, Peter Luis Zimmerman, Danny Pardo, Jason New, Romualdo Castillo, Nicholas Ryan Hernandez, Matt Lindquist, Michael H. Cole, David Turner, Alexandra Velez, James Quattrochi, Ryan Boz, Dan Dargan Carter, Met Clark, Mariama Diallo, Kylie Michele Fuller, Ryan Dinning, Nick Benseman, Abraham Takatsuki, Casey Nelson, Keith Nussbaum, Tom Vodnik, James William Ballard, Jay D. Kacho, Shawn McBride, Xavier Leblanc, Henardo Rodriguez, Sebastian Blunt, Allan Poppleton, Caroline Paige, Stephen Dunlevy, Diederik Verhoef, Pedro Haro, Christina Souza, Michael Cole, Hector Banos, Luis Burbano, Travis Gomez, Marcus Young, Marcus Young
  • Director: Jaume Collet-Serra
 Comments
  • Movie_Beta - 26 May 2024
    Fun, old fashioned adventure
    Jungle Cruise joins the likes of Pirates of the Caribbean and The Haunted Mansion to be a Disney theme park ride that gets a move made from its concept. Not necessarily a bad thing but usually indicates a wafer thin plot and screenplay.

    However, Jungle Cruise is a fun action adventure, family friendly, film that harks back to older movies such as Indiana Jones and Romancing the Stone. So if you take it with a pinch of salt and as a popcorn movie where you leave your brain at the door, it is actually very fun. Dwayne Johnson (never my favourite), actually plays well in a softer role and has good chemistry with Emily Blunt who is cleverly cast as an eccentric and determined British Doctor, and elevates the whole film from the charm portrayed in her role.

    Set in WWI era South American Jungle, jesse Plemons hams it up as a German baddie using every resource possible to find the magic tree before the others. Paul Giamatti also appears in a smaller role and gives a fun performance as he often does.

    It is all very sanitised and clean for a younger audience, but how can you not have fun with a movie like this? Who doesn't want to be adventuring through the jungle looking for treasures! Therefore, lots of fun to be had, although I would say it is a little overlong in it's runtime causing some lessening in interest in the final third.

    Overall a fun movie that all ages can enjoy and I am not surprised they are planning a sequel.

    7/10.
  • Bernie4444 - 9 November 2023
    "Disney's Jungle Cruise" or "Jungle Cruise" is a fun romp.
    Much of the story is based on Disney's Jungle Cruise; this includes several inside jokes and puns. Eventually, it expands to an Indiana Jones or Laura Croft knockoff. You can tell everyone had fun making this movie. The movie is contrived and patched together with many of today's politically correct motifs that distract from the story and ambiance.

    "Everything you see wants to kill you and can." It is 1916. The adventure begins when Dr. Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt) goes on a hunt for a unique item that is naturally in a forbidden part of the jungle. She has to team up with the gregarious riverboat captain, Frank Wolff (Dwayne Johnson) who has a few secrets of his own. Naturally, they are pursued by the bad guys that are after the same item. This is where the fun begins.