Jungle Quest is the latest adventure action film to be released in 2021, directed by Zomi Sheila and starring Dawn Johnson and Emily Blunt, based on the rides at Disney Amusement Park.
The story tells that Dr. Horton travels to the Amazon jungle with the head of a mysterious arrow, aiming to obtain a magical flower that can cure all curses and injuries, and they take the "Kira" boat opened by Frank, but find that not only people come to obstruct it, but also hide a huge crisis in the jungle!
Disney has always liked to put the amusement facilities in its amusement parks on the big screen, writing a complete and detailed story setting for the game, not only can monetize the popular IP again, but also increase the popularity of the amusement facilities through movies, which is an excellent plan to count in one fell swoop.
There have been many works of this genre in film history so far, including 1997's "Horror Tower", 2000's "Mars Mission", 2002's "Grass Bear", 2003's "Haunted House", 2003's film series "Pirates of the Caribbean" series, 2015's film "Tomorrowland",
Since Jungle Quest is an adaptation of Disneyland's ride of the same name, the film adds many related easter eggs, such as Frank Wolf (Dawn Johnson) explaining the surrounding Amazon ecology with the crew of the "Kira", the huge open-mouthed hippopotamus in the river, various dangerous (collusive) crises, and the other side of the waterfall of the "Eighth Wonder of the World".
For those who have played this facility at Disneyland, they will have a great sense of gaming when watching the movie, and even be able to pull back the good times when riding at that time.
After the release of "Jungle Trek", it was alleged that the plot of the 1951 film "The Queen of Africa" was very similar (this film inspired Disney to build "Jungle Trek" in the amusement facilities), the story is also set in the Amazon jungle, the male and female protagonists are both emotionally involved when they travel to the Amazon on a boat, and the biggest villain is also the German army.
But I think this film has the shadow of many classic movies, such as "Pirates of the Caribbean", "National Treasure", "The Mummy", etc., this film seems to take out the essence of the classic works in film history, and mix and recreate to create a very good-looking, but very heavy sense of stitching Disney movies.
"Jungle Trek" is a standard road movie, through this main line of adventure in the Amazon, one by one to develop a number of crisis stories, while the male and female protagonists show the momentum of "soldiers to block, water to cover", very formulaic one by one to overcome various difficulties and crises.
And this film relies on the actor charm of Dawn Johnson and Emily Blunt, which reverses the weakness of the flowing account story in the movie, so that this film has a very pleasing and eye-catching plot line!
"Jungle Quest" has all the elements related to "good movies", firmly tying itself and the word likable together, copying the success rules of many past films, and creating today's very deliberate (this is not a pejorative) commercial cool film.
The film has joyful and humorous dialogue lines, but also has cartoonish pompous but at the same time with serious action scenes, but also in the story politically correctly smuggled in the feminist and gay issues, a full 2 hours to give you a full and rich bloody emotion, crying and laughing and romance, but also successfully led the audience into this magical Amazon adventure story!