JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL | FAMILY MOVIE REVIEW INFORMATION FOR PARENTS AND KIDS

"JUMANJI: THE NEXT LEVEL"
(2019) (Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart) (PG-13)

QUICK TAKE:: Adventure: Four friends who previously survived a trip into a video game find themselves back there again, but most now in new avatar bodies they must use to save the day before it's too late.

PLOT:

Not long ago, high school students Spencer Gilpin (ALEX WOLFF), Anthony 'Fridge' Johnson (SER'DARIUS BLAIN), Martha Kaply (MORGAN TURNER) and Bethany Walker (MADISON ISEMAN) were accidentally sucked into a video game called Jumanji. With the assistance of game moderator Nigel (RHYS DARBY), pilot character Jefferson "Seaplane" McDonough (NICK JONAS) and Alex Vreeke (COLIN HANKS) -- who had been stuck in that game for decades -- they managed to complete a dangerous task that not only saved the kingdom of Jumanji, but also let them return to their normal lives.

Those students have now gone their separate ways, with Spencer suffering that separation the most, what with him and Martha having put a hold on their romantic relationship. Accordingly, and upon returning for Christmas break to visit his mother, he ends up as roommates with his uncle, Eddie Gilpin (DANNY DeVITO), who's staying there recovering from hip surgery. Missing how he felt while in the guise of his game avatar, the tall and muscle-bound Dr. Smolder Bravestone (DWAYNE JOHNSON), Eddie breaks out the game and returns to it, only to discover that he's not in Bravestone's body, but instead has ended up in burglar Ming Fleetfoot (AWKWAFINA).

Back in the real world, Martha, Fridge and Bethany are concerned that he hasn't responded to their attempts to contact him and thus go to Spencer's mom's house where they not only meet Eddie, but also his former business partner, Milo Walker (DANNY GLOVER), who's shown up out of the blue wanting to patch up their falling out from long ago. All but Bethany end up sucked into the game where Martha is the only one to get her earlier avatar, Ruby Roundhouse (KAREN GILLAN) who's proficient at martial arts.

Fridge ends up in Bethany's previous avatar, middle-aged and overweight cartographer, Professor Shelly Oberon (JACK BLACK), Eddie ends up as Bravestone, and Milo ends up in Fridge's previous avatar, the diminutive zoologist Moose Finbar (KEVIN HART). Learning from Nigel that a new villain, Jurgen the Brutal (RORY McCANN), has stolen a gem pivotal to the existence of Jumanji, the friends and their new companions try to get used to their new bodies as they set out to save the day and return to the real world before they run out of game lives.

WILL KIDS WANT TO SEE IT?: If they liked the first film they probably will.

WHY THE MPAA RATED IT: PG-13: For adventure action, suggestive content and some language.

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