Tag: Dwayne Johnson

Jungle Cruise control to a great first act and overall fun, but flawed film

There are many reasons why people could love or dislike Jungle Cruise. It stars Dwayne Johnson! It’s based on a theme park ride. It’s based on a theme park ride! Your negative reasons for liking it could easily be someone else’s reason for enjoying it. As a former WDW park employee, I can see many things to love about Jungle Cruise. The first act is jammed with subtle, meta winks to the audience as the film blurs between movie and self-realization that its premise is an audio-animatronic ride based on puns and adventure. That same period of the film is also wildly entertaining and will remind older movie fans of Raiders and Romancing the Stone.

As the film goes on, it will crib too much from those films, but more on that in a moment.

Jungle Cruise, we can’t really dislike you, but we wanted more

Win a copy of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw on DVD

Hitting DVD on November 5 is Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. This brings fan favorites from Fast & Furious, Hobbs, the take-no-guff policeman and Deckard Shaw, the best baddie in the series, and puts them in their own film. In Hobbs & Shaw they’re forced to team up to take down a cyber-genetically enhanced anarchist Brixton Lorr, played by Idris Elba. As if the cast couldn’t get any cooler, toss in Vanessa Kirby who plays Shaw’s sister. You’ll recognize Kirby from Mission Impossible: Fallout and The Crown. She steals scenes in everything she’s in.

Win a DVD Combo Pack of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. It’s rated PG-13 and travels the globe with swagger and action.

Hobbs & Shaw is rated PG-13 for prolonged action sequences, suggestive material and some strong language. If you’re looking for a fast paced, action film that delivers on what you think it should this is it. It’s got an 88% score on Rotten Tomatoes and an “A-“ on CinemaScore. Bonus: this combo pack of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw has 80 minutes of never-before-seen bonus content, an alternate ending, making-of, bloopers and more.  

We’re giving away five (5) copies of Blu-Ray DVD Combo Packs of Fast & Furious Presents: Hobbs & Shaw. This giveaway will end Saturday, November 9 at 7PM. To register to win, just leave a comment here in the post or RT this:

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