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For viewers familiar with Disney's movie routines, "Jungle Adventure" is an assembly line work that can disappoint you even if you don't have any expectations for Disney's live-action movies. The sophistication of Disney's production is the only thing to watch in the movie, and the lackluster story and inexplicable adventure make the movie fall into a long torment.
If you have been to Disneyland, then you must find a lot of deja vu in this movie, depending on the "Jungle Adventure" itself is born out of Disneyland's play items. Using popular animated characters and scenes to attract audiences into Disneyland, and using Disneyland's play items to reverse the creation of movies, this is a good business card, and it plays really well. But doing a good business does not mean making a good movie. The "Jungle", which has brought in "The Rock" Johnson and Emily, and invested 200 million US dollars, is visually impeccable, but in the The plot is sloppy.
The time background of the movie story is set in the early 20th century. In order to find the legendary medicine that can cure all diseases, the British female doctor played by Emily left London with her brother and came to the Amazon River to find this herb. The one at the helm is naturally the captain played by starring Johnson. The story lineup is set when Johnson came out and everything was explained clearly. The whole story is exactly the same as the game you experienced in Disneyland. There are occasional crises, but they are always stable, and all the plot trends are expected to be mediocre.
Nowadays, Disney has brought too many amazing special effects to people, but it has become a double-edged sword. Not only "Jungle Voyage", but in recent years, a series of Disney live-action movies have used a large number of special effects scenes to replace the plots that could bring the audience's whimsy, but when we put aside the special effects of these Disney movies Outerwear, it is not difficult to find that these stories themselves are extremely pale and empty, and the next scenes of the ever-changing stories are gorgeous and dazzling, so that although the audience can get some sensory stimulation, they have no way to gain in the embarrassing game. How much resonance.
This problem is especially obvious in "Jungle Adventure", because the film itself is inherently shackled by the game project, and what its screenwriter and director are doing is only integrating relevant elements, how to put it at the right time. The adventurous element of Disney is manifested, and how to stretch this story that can be told in a few words is the origin of all the motivations for this film.
Although such a rigid creative thinking ensures that the film will not be useless, it also makes the film lose the creativity it should have, and even lose the authenticity that a live-action film should have. If the story of "Jungle Voyage" was applied to three anthropomorphic animals and presented them in an animated way, the story would look and feel much better, but the real-life interpretation made everything clumsy, so much so that In this kind of industrial product produced like an assembly line, the most beautiful manifestation of human nature's love and kindness has also become cheap and pale.
When the vision becomes the only bright spot of a movie, when the unrestrained creation is limited to a couple, the exhaustion of Disney fairy tale creation makes the movie only have a good-looking skin but lose its soul. Such "Jungle Voyage" is doomed to put the cart before the horse.
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