For a while there it seemed like movie studios kept trying and failing to follow-up on the success of Jumanji, the classic Robin Williams movie about kids trapped at the mercy of a magical board game. But then someone got the bright idea to add The Rock (and Jack Black and Kevin Hart and Karen Gillan) so the video game-themed reboot Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle made like a billion dollars. And you better believe they didn’t want another twenty years for the next sequel.
Watch these movies before Jumanji: The Next Level.
Jumanji
Maybe it’s the warm 90s kid movie aesthetic or maybe it’s Robin Williams touching trademark sad clown vibes, but the original Jumanji still has soulfulness that feels lacking these new movies. Watching the game spill out in the real is also legit terrifying, even with the primitive effects.
Zathura
Welcome to the Jungle wasn’t actually the first attempt at a Jumanji follow-up. Long before he kicked off the MCU with the first Iron Man, director Jon Favreau gave us Zathura. It’s basically Jumanji but in outer space. It’s even based on a book written by the original Jumanji author. Make this canon again.
Shazam!
The hook in these new Jumanji movies is that the awkward teens become adult movie stars in the world of the video game. So a scrawny kid becomes the comically beefy Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. However 2019 already gave us a great film about a snarky teen who powers up into a muscle man with the DC Comics movie Shazam!, a character who may end up fighting the Rock one day.
Twins
Before he decided to spend this past decade partying at It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, the unbelievably cool Danny DeVito was a pretty big movie star. In this new Jumanji, it’s his old man brain inside the Rock’s body. And if you’re looking for similar contrast check out Twins where DeVito is somehow related to Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Sorry to Bother You
This new Jumanji also features some identity shenanigans involving Danny Glover, who becomes the new Kevin Hart character. That’s about as good an excuse as any to remind you about Sorry to Bother, the satirical anti-capitalist masterpiece that features, among other things, Danny Glover talking with Steve Buscemi’s “white voice.”
Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox
The new Jumanji movies are helmed by Jake Kasdan, son of famous Star Wars and Indiana Jones screenwriters Lawrence Kasdan. But before you go blaming nepotism you should check out one of Jake’s earlier movies, the brilliant and underrated and absolutely hilarious music biopic parody Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story starring John C. Reilly.
Hereditary
Alex Wolff is the teen star of these new Jumanji movies. You may remember him as one of the titular nude siblings in The Naked Brothers Band. Or if you’re me you remember him from Hereditary where all those people keep getting their heads cut off. Considering how much of Wolff’s career has been seemingly guided by his family, I wonder if that horror hit close to home.
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