Jungle Cruise
Based on the great, pun-filled Disneyland ride, Jungle Cruise falls between the disappointment The Haunted Mansion and the fantastic hit Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (both 2003). It's a wonderful summer movie, full of light and color and the great outdoors, with a sunny, winning attitude, brisk movement, and a lighthearted tone. What keeps it from being great is, perhaps, the lack of a certain looseness, or a freedom to frolic. The venture feels a bit too contained, a bit too controlled, not unlike, say, a ride. None of this comes from lack of trying. The movie features an awesome set, an entire village on the banks of the Amazon, a place I most certainly would love to hang out...
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