‘JUMANJI: WELCOME TO THE JUNGLE’
DEC. 20
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart and Jack Black Director: Jake Kasdan
The skinny: In the reinterpretation of the 1995 Robin Williams movie, four teenagers get sucked into a wild video-game world and become very different avatars — which meant actors playing way against type. Black had to inhabit the personality of a teenage girl, Karen Gillan contrasts a crop- topped action heroine with the mind of a brainy youngster, Hart is a football stud in a short body, and Johnson is the muscular version of a nerdy guy. “What would you discover about yourself if you could spend the day in someone else’s body?” Kasdan asks. “It goes to a fantasy but also to this story about what are we capable of that we may or may not realize.”