Do not confuse Welcome to the Jungle with the latest reboot of Jumanji starring The Rock, aka Dwayne Johnson. I did not, but I have no idea how this movie ended up in my queue. Welcome to the Jungle must have a name similar to another movie that I’m not familiar with and wanted to see because I thought it belonged to one of my favorite genres such as found footage, but now I’ll never see the movie that I actually wanted to see and even worse, I watched this one. Welcome to the Jungle is an utter waste of your time and is not worth losing 95 minutes of your life.
Welcome to the Jungle initially seems vaguely promising like The Office complete with the judo mind tricks of victimizing someone then gaslighting him or making it seem like he is the one guilty of what he is complaining about. Then it takes a page from Severance when the company is going on a retreat to an island. The actual point of the movie is to make the nice guy’s dreams come true. He gets the girl. He receives appreciation. He learns to stick up to his office nemesis. He reassesses his priorities and wants more out of his life.
Welcome to the Jungle boasts few assets: a running gag about a tiger, Jean Claude Van Damme and the chick from The Blacklist, which I accidentally stopped watching years ago when it stopped playing on Hulu (and technically, she does not do much here). They are not worth the price of admission! Welcome to the Jungle becomes an adult ripoff of Lord of the Flies except less humorous, and it is supposed to be a comedy.
I suppose that hardcore Adam Brody and Rob Huebel fans will enjoy Welcome to the Jungle, but the jokes are one note and not funny. You only live with one life so why live it watching this movie. Don’t do it.