The script boasts more writers than the computerized menagerie's got megabytes, but they haven't come up with much variety or humor in what is essentially a string of catastrophes.

Rita Kempley

Washington Post

The film is a gloomy special-effects extravaganza filled with grotesque images, generating fear and despair.

Roger Ebert

Chicago Sun-Times

Jumanji takes approximately one-hundred minutes for four people to play a board game. The result isn't much more fun or involving than watching a few friends play Monopoly.

James Berardinelli

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