This is the fourth review in my Alphabetical April.
I wanted to see this film for very long. First saw it when I was a little kid and I still remember it to this day. So I thought the Alphabetical April Challenge is the right time to watch it again.
It starts sometime in the 1800s where two boys bury some chest. "What if someone digs it up?" - "May God have mercy on his soul."
What a start for a kids movie.
Then after being beat up from some bad kids, a young boy named Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd) finds the game, plays it once and gets sucked into the game.
26 years later Judy and Peter Shepherd (a young Kirsten Dunst and Bradley Pierce) move into the Parrish House and find the board game and bring him (Robin Williams) back out. Then starts the craziest board game ever.
The movie was lots of fun. It was a kids movie but I (not a kid anymore) liked it too.
The special effects were good for the time, of course, 20 years later, you can tell that those aren't real apes. But it still looks good, better than some stuff we get to see today.
The acting was quite good. You can never go wrong with Robin Williams, but the child actors were good too. The funniest character wasn't Robin Williams' though, for me it was Carl Bentley, played by David Alan Grier. He had the funniest moments in the movie.
All in all it was very funny, but also scary because this game put the kids into mortal danger more than just once. We have deadly bees, deadly plants, a stompede and much much more.
It's probably much darker than the kids movies from today, but not too dark, it really is fun for the whole family.
I give it 3.5 out of 5 stars.
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