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Jungle Cruise (2021)

Jungle Cruise poster
Directed by
Jaume Collet-Serra
Genre
fantasy film, comedy film, action film, adventure film
Country
United States
Runtime
2h 07m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
7.3 of 10 from 6,220 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A riverboat skipper teams up with a scientist and her brother to find a magical tree in the jungle. They have to outrun a German expedition and dodge cursed conquistadors along the way.

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What happens

Jungle Cruise is a 2021 American fantasy adventure film based on the Disney theme park attraction. It stars Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Édgar Ramírez, Jack Whitehall, Jesse Plemons, and Paul Giamatti. Directed by Jaume Collet-Serra from a screenplay by Glenn Ficarra, John Requa, and Michael Green, it tells the alternate history of the skipper of a small riverboat who takes a scientist and her brother through a jungle in search of the Tree of life while competing against a German expedition, and cursed conquistadors. Plans for a feature film based on the Jungle Cruise ride began in 2004. The project lay dormant until 2011. The original version fell through, and Johnson joined in 2015. Blunt and the rest of the cast joined in 2018 in a revamped version, with filming taking place in Hawaii and Georgia, from May through September that year. The score was composed by James Newton Howard. Following a year of post-production and a year of further delay due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jungle Cruise premiered at Disneyland Resort on July 24, 2021, and was released in the United States on July 30, simultaneously in theaters and digitally. The film received mixed reviews, and was a box-office disappointment, grossing $221 million against a budget of $200 million. It also made $66 million over its first 30 days on Disney+ Premier Access. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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