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Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to the Jungle (2013)

April. 27,2013
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4.9
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NR
| Comedy

A company retreat on a tropical island goes terribly awry.

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TaryBiggBall
2013/04/27

It was OK. I don't see why everyone loves it so much. It wasn't very smart or deep or well-directed.

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Donald Seymour
2013/04/28

This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

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Zandra
2013/04/29

The movie turns out to be a little better than the average. Starting from a romantic formula often seen in the cinema, it ends in the most predictable (and somewhat bland) way.

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Kimball
2013/04/30

Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

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kaissal
2013/05/01

Events are really boring and hasn't been thought through. Not recommended!

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Lola A
2013/05/02

The real-life link: The approach to how a relationship works. Lisa refused Phil because he was too direct when he told her he liked her. He was too direct because he was quite confident and did not care much of what she thought. He went after what he wanted directly. Did not leave time to for Lisa to develop any emotional attachment to him, he did not wait for the situations where they know each other more to happen and assumed a moment they shared at the airplane was enough for him to make the next move. Chris on the other hand, had a crush on Lisa but he did not make a move until he got confirmation that Lisa liked him as well. Lisa liked him when the circumstances put them in a position where she got the change to know him better. But at the end, no matter how much Lisa liked Chris things did not move to more until Chris did the first move, making Chris here the one who determined if they are going to be in a relationship or not. I have a problem with that. Movies like this give the impression that men are always the ones expected to make the first move and therefore in the real world if a woman makes the first move it is considered weird and usually freezes everything that was going on. This makes the men the one who always determines if two people are going to be in a relationship or not. Plausibility: plausibility is a joke. First, Chris would be happy to go on a trip with Lisa rather than hating the trip because Phil was going to be there. Phil would never not leave the island in the end and he would be more reasonable in the tragic situation than he was. Storytelling: well done. The story is developed in an interesting way that does not bore you. The movie is however enjoyable with scenes that make you laugh and with a plot that is not so easily predictable.

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jinsilver
2013/05/03

This movie is a great example of missed opportunity in nearly every scene, a flat attempt at parody that only hit just often enough to keep reminding you of what a better movie it could have been with a good script, better acting, and competent direction. Everything it tried to do has been done so much better already.The opening scenes invoke a zany little Office Space or The IT Crowd workplace with unique characters, and then within ten minutes throws all of that away to pigeonhole them into a cliché script ripped straight out of nerdy 80's high school wish fulfillment fantasies, before they even leave for the jungle. Van Damme never even gets any good lines and barely features in the movie (though a couple of scenes near the end were silly), the two main men could barely act their way out of a wet bag, and the women are just set pieces to fall for the men. Completely uninspired camera work means that the lush, verdant locale was all but thrown away, to boot. That just made the scenes that were hilarious stand out that that much starker, and those few lines are all that earn it one extra star.It obviously set out to parody the milquetoast-to-hero genre, except it forgot the plot and turned into just another bad example of the genre, instead. In no way does it stack up to actual send-ups, like Blades of Glory, Napoleon Dynamite, or Office Space, let alone full on parodies like The FP and Talladega Nights. Go see one of them instead.

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Eric_Cubed
2013/05/04

I don't understand all the negative reviews out there. This is a miraculous gem of a movie that achieved the near impossible by eliciting at least half a dozen deep belly laughs by being a very low budget movie starring you know who. I haven't enjoyed a comedy this much since Super Bad and Pineapple Express. It's really funny in a way that Office Space is funny, quirky, dry and with characters just exaggerated enough so we don't forget they are true in the banality of our corporate work lives. There is a stoner character that reminds me a lot of Seth Rogan, so yes the film is not perfect, and it probably did exploit Office Space for some of it's humor, so it's not really original, but in the final analysis, if you like Dilbert you will laugh. If you like Van Damme making fun of a ridiculous caricature of himself you will find this film funny.

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