I watched this film as a kid, and now I'm watching it with my kids. I really love this film, it's in my top 10 films from my childhood.

Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) is a slightly better version of this because the pace is a lot more frenetic and they have cut out some of the frustrating junk that was in Jumanji. Having said that I thought that this was entertaining after the pointlessly slow start. It could have done with a few trims in the middle and a bit less off the end too. Enjoyable through nostalgia and fun adventure that would be improved through a child's eyes. After a wooden start this improves to be an entertaining fantasy that is a bit too long.

The story centers on 12-year-old Alan Parrish, who becomes trapped in a board game while playing with his best friend Sarah Whittle in 1969. Twenty-six years later, in 1995, siblings Judy and Peter Shepherd find the game, begin playing and then unwittingly release the now-adult Alan. The group of now are out to finish the game in order to reverse all of the destruction it has caused.I saw this film after I saw "Welcome to Jungle". I thought this film had too much set-up and not enough action. The CGI also looks cheap by today's standards. Now the performances are fine but in general the film comes across like a "Work in Progress" . It seemed to be screaming out that the filmmakers ran out of money and we were never given the chance to re-edit and re-shoot somethings.

Waste of time waste of money . Why did they even bother making this film ?. We're the actors trying to be funny because quite simply they weren't in fact they were quite the opposite . All I would say save you're money and enjoy you're time doing something more useful.1