Comment on Funny nod to ’80s in ‘Jumanji,’ starring The Rock, Kevin Hart and Jack Black

Funny nod to ’80s in ‘Jumanji,’ starring The Rock, Kevin Hart and Jack Black

Nostalgia for the 1980s has been too narrow in scope lately, focusing on genre pieces featuring kid characters in the horror remake “It” and Netflix sci-fi series “Stranger Things.” Other important ’80s touchstones, like John Hughes teen comedies and all those films in which a person wakes up in the wrong body — “Big” and “All of Me” were the best of them — have been overlooked as inspirations. The winning “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle” smartly exploits these two strains of neglected ’80s comedy.

 

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