#watch Jumanji The Next Level

[cosmoglass]

My observations playing 'The Last Guardian' for the first time

The stained glass eyes make The Nest like a surveillance prison. Big Brother is watching you. Inspirations for The Nest – I Carceri by Piranesi, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Kung Fu Panda, Avatar.

I showed footage of the game to an art historian and he said the architecture looked like it was inspired by Indian temples, Angkor Wat and Palenque. Piranesi was supposedly inspired by Roman ruins with vines and trees growing over them.

There's a noise the boy makes when he’s climbing that sounds exactly like Link when he lands from too great a height in Ocarina of Time.

Movies Fumito Ueda might have been inspired by -

The Jungle Book – Mowgli is raised by wolves and needs to get back to the man-village, King Louie's lair is an Indian temple ruin. The Neverending Story - Falkor The Rescuers Down Under – the runway scene Kung Fu Panda – the prison Avatar - outdoor areas of The Nest make me think of Pandora, Toruk (the flying creature).

Movies inspired by The Last Guardian -

Jumanji: The Next Level – the apparatus in the scene with the apes. The Last Guardian is also referenced in the first movie when the poster for the game is shown on someone’s wall.

[audiovisualrecall]

Why tf is someone setting off firecrackers at almost midnight in fucking August????

Like super close, too. Jumped 50 ft both times they went off like pls can u not.

[rhysdarbinizedarby]

25 years of standout storytelling and stand-up

by Madelaine Empson

Rhys Darby is one of New Zealand’s most successful comedy exports. It all started with stand-up for the world-famous comedian and actor, who set out on the scene in Christchurch in the 90s. In 2004 after his move to the UK, Darby landed the BBC radio series Flight of the Conchords with Bret McKenzie and Jemaine Clement. He returned to the role of band manager Brian-now-Murray in the 2007 HBO American television series that jumpstarted a phenomenal career in the entertainment industry and helped fulfil his long-standing dream of becoming a comedy actor.

“I guess all my stand-up was building up to that moment of being able to act and thankfully with my friends”, Darby tells me. “We had a good laugh and we created a really, really cool show. Everything else kind of came after that.”

There’s a lot to cover in that “everything else”, including starring alongside Jim Carrey in Yes Man (2008), joining the star-studded cast of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017) and Jumanji: The Next Level (2018), moving to LA, and scoring something he always wanted: “to be a lead in a comedy series and getting to dress up in historical outfits” in Our Flag Means Death (2022).

Through it all, Darby never strayed far from his stand-up roots. He’s performed his distinctive brand of physical comedy, zany storytelling, and obscure observations all around the world and now returns to New Zealand with a retrospective show featuring the best bits of his five specials almost in order – from early robot and dinosaur impressions right through to material from Mystic Time Bird (2017).

“You’ve seen my stand-up, now see it again!”

Darby invites Wellington fans old and new to The Opera House on the 19th of August to join the 25-Year Celebration Club, which he just came up with on our Zoom call.

“Yes, I’m just starting that now.”  

How does it feel to be celebrating your silver jubilee in stand-up?

It’s really bizarre. My last special Mystic Time Bird was about my mother’s passing. My own therapy was to create that show, to see the lighter side of everything and to think about how we may live again, what our spirits really are, and who we are as beings on this planet. Once I’d done that, I felt like the world had gone in such a transformed and a very positive way, but also a bizarre way whereby I found that I was less relevant – as a comic, as a performer, as just a middle-aged white guy. I felt like, and rightfully so, it’s not about me anymore so I would take a step back. I felt like [Mystic Time Bird] was a good one to end on.

When it comes to stand-up, I only realised this year that it has been 25 years. All these new fans that have watched Our Flag Means Death hadn’t seen my stand-up and started looking at it online. I was just inundated with comments and people retweeting stuff, a lot of TikTok stuff, people discovering me for the first time. It gave me a rebirth in a way, made me feel like my stuff must still be relevant. I looked at it and it really is just pure happiness. There’s nothing offensive to anyone. It’s just about laughter for laughter’s sake, me taking the piss out of myself in awkward situations, me as a human, and me being confident enough, without realising it, over time, to just put my weirdness out there and be proud of it. I think that resonated with a lot of people, especially the LGBTQ-plus community. They really started loving my stuff, and I felt like I was becoming a captain in a way.

So I spoke to my wife – let’s do some gigs. Let’s celebrate 25 years, set something up and just see if people come. This is in the States, where I haven’t done much stand-up because I wasn’t famous enough over there. It was an experiment of sorts. Anyway, experiment goes really well. They all sold out. There was an army of mostly queer, but all absolutely stoked to see me, fans, and with gifts. I was just in tears most of the nights. I felt good that I was sort of championing them, and amazing that they had discovered me and were wanting to see me live.

Looking back over those 25 years to your very first stand-up gig, were you always putting that weirdness out there?

I’ve always been honest with myself and have performed what I think is funny. I’m definitely quirky. I’m not for everyone, and I understand that, but it does frustrate me because I think it should be for everyone! Some people do want darker stuff or something different. I have always had stuff that is unique in some ways. I’m a massive fan of Monty Python, surreal comedy from Rowan Atkinson and Spike Milligan and those guys from the 70s – alternative comedy that was definitely weird, and there’s probably a bit of that in there. My stuff was original, New Zealand-based, I talked a lot about things in this country that I found really silly and baffling after going overseas and coming back. It’s kind of a celebration of how weird I think we are. I think that’s what made the comedy that me and The Conchords and Taika [Waititi] do become world-famous, because we have a different take on life. It is positive. We don’t belittle anyone. We just like to take the mickey out of who we are, because I think we’re confident that we live in a country that we’re blessed with, because it is a good place.

At the start, did you imagine what might be on the cards for you?

I honestly believed that I was gonna go all the way, because I just had the passion and the drive for it. When I got to the UK, it was the best training ground ever. There are over 300 comedy clubs in London alone. I was working five nights a week, two or three gigs a night. You’ve got to train yourself to be able to repeat things. The UK, they are the most experienced audience in the world, and because they’re British, if they don’t like something they’ll just heckle you straight away. They’re smart and they’re drunk. I had to learn to be quick. And if something didn’t work, you drop it and change it. I had the novelty of being from here, so I had a different voice. But the main thing I had going for me was that my style, my impressions of jet aeroplanes, stories, music, sound effects, bizarre monsters, different characters and things was I think something they hadn’t seen before. What’s this guy doing? He’s not just telling jokes.

I was headlining some clubs, I’d done six, maybe seven Edinburgh Festivals, I’d done This Way to Spaceship, which was my most successful show internationally. But my main goal was to get onto television, onto a sketch show. I wanted desperately to act. The comedy acting side of things didn’t happen for me in the UK. Getting The Conchords radio show with Bret and Jemaine, while we were in Edinburgh, and then turning it into a TV show, and that opening the doors to me coming to America was something I didn’t foresee happening. But it opened up everything and I could be the comedy actor I always thought I’d end up being. I thought it would be England, but they were still like, ‘Who are you, you’re from some colony down the other end of the world?’ The US has been so good to me. They open their arms up to everyone. I’ve never looked back.

You’ve worked with some huge names. Do you get starstruck yourself?

With actors, yeah! I don’t know how it’s happened, but my first movie was with Jim Carrey. I just had to suck it up and meet the guy. The scenes we did together were so special because I got to act alongside my idol and do some pretty zany stuff. Watching his physicality was just something that I was in awe of. He did one scene at this bar where he had a tray of drinks, and he knows exactly where the cameras are and how to manipulate them as an actor. He would come in and he did something where he fell over with the tray of drinks. He fell out of shot and back into shot and fell out and back in again, some sort of weird physical moment, which looked amazing on screen. And then he told me he broke a rib doing that scene like two weeks later. What!

Then it was The Boat That Rocked [2009]. Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, pretty much anyone in that cast. Philip Seymour Hoffman, that was a big one. Rest in peace. Meeting him and knowing that he was one of the best actors in the world, and he had no idea who I was... I just felt like I had won a competition. ‘Hi I’m the guy that won the competition to be in the movie with you!’ He ended up going and watching Conchords. I think Richard Curtis gave him the DVD and all of a sudden he was like, ‘Oh yeah, I'll act with you!’ It was a rite of passage.

I’m okay with meeting my heroes. But The Rock. I mean, guys, come on, ridiculous. Can I do a movie where there aren’t the most famous people in the world? Dwayne was lovely. Jack Black as well, just very open to having a chat. But I’ve been prepared for meeting those people. I think it’s part of being an actor, when you meet someone you’re absolutely starstruck by, you just pretend you’re not. And then you go home and cry. I went to Monty Python live in 2014, I was very, very lucky. I was just sitting there crying. Oh my god. I felt like those were my dads, you know? I’ve met one or two of those guys briefly, but they would be the ones where I would probably struggle the most to act as though I’m not excited to see them.

‘This is fine, this is absolutely fine.’

I’m fine, I’m absolutely fine! Here, I’ll quickly share a selfie! And then I’ll run away and you won’t see me crying!

What are you most looking forward to about bringing the ‘new-old show’ back to New Zealand, particularly Wellington?

I’m excited to bring it to New Zealand because this is where it all began, where my biggest audiences always were. In this day and age in time, where everyone seems to be down because the world’s imploding on many levels, hopefully they can forget about everything for an hour and a half and just laugh at the silly guy on stage.

The Opera House is, in my opinion, the best room in the country. Welly has a real heart for theatre and a heart for performance. It’s magical to be able to return there and just take it all in.

Photo: Kate Little Photography

Source: Regional News: Eyes on Wellington

[literal-ray-of-sunshine]

I watched Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle, Jumanji: The Next Level, and the Original Jumanj tonight; in that order; for the first time ever. They were all great. I think I liked the new ones more. I think the order I watched them in was the best to worst while still liking the original.

The original was scary and dark compared to the newer ones. The concept of the game is terrifying no matter what but the original definitely made me feel more scared for the characters. It was also dark in the whole the kids parents recently dying, Alan’s dad being distant, Alan being gone from the world for as long as I’ve been alive, Sarah being convinced she’s crazy from seeing Alan being sucked into the game as a kid, etc… The difference in the town in 26 years was depressing too.

The new ones while still being dark with the concept of the game felt lighter with their humor. They were funny and I loved the characters. I liked that Alex was living in what Alan had built in his time there. I liked the video game mechanics overall though the multiple lives did make it a little less worrisome until toward the end. Each storyline was good. I slightly preferred welcome to the jungle but next level was good too and I liked how the ending is opening it up to a third movie.

The actors were amazing. The teens were great and the avatars were spectacular. Jack Black was the star of the show. Over 2 movies he played 3 characters playing a character and you could tell who was who and their personality, but the best was Bethany.

I think Welcome to the Jungle might become a comfort movie for me.

[mandos-mind-trick]

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xoxo

Thanks for asking!!

🌻 Sunflower: What is one thing that brightened your day today? 

I just finished watching Jumanji: The Next Level and it was nice to genuinely laugh for the first time in a while.

🌳 Tree: What is one thing in your future you are looking foward towards? 

Getting a new job. I'm pretty set on where I'm moving to for the job so I'm ready to just get going. I have to wait for the holidays to be over and their hiring season to start, but I'm looking forward to finally moving in a direction I want to go.

🍯 Honey: What is one thing you like about yourself?

My creativity. I don't like a lot of things about myself, but my creativity and abilities to utilize it are one of the few things I'm grateful for. I've come to accept that I'm actually good at writing (I was doubting for so long as most do and a lot of y'all have helped me realize that) and even though I plan to only do it as a hobby, it's something that I really like about myself.

[netflixandchillwream]

Jumanji: The Next Level

You guys know the drill, New week New movie. And today I've got a good one. Today I will be giving my opinion on one of my favorite collabs between Dwayne the Rock Johnson and itty bitty Kevin hart. My favorite Big and Little duo. Jumanji : the next level.

I’ve always been super iffy when it comes to rebooting films and Tv shows especially if they’re classics. However the movie that i'm reviewing is a sequel to the reboot. That's how well they filmed the reboot. I could've done this review on either one of the two new jumanji but the second one meets my level of comedy. Now I know this movie isn’t all about Dwayne and Kevin but it was a beautiful friendship created from this movie and I preach that every chance I get. This movie reunites our main characters after they graduated from highschool by restarting the never ending game. However when getting into this game they realized it would be way more difficult than last time around because it was a whole new level (hence the name of the movie) This time around the movie offers new challenges, new perks, new villains and redemption arcs for all the broken off relationships between the gang. This time around the friend group are not playing as the characters they were last time in fact they have to learn how to be these characters and work with their strengths and weaknesses. This movie was a big hit in my books. Full of jokes and references you would only get by watching the other 2 movies. I give this movie a solid 4.5 stars out of 5. I am a sucker when it comes to comedies and this movie had the best lineup of comedians like Jack Black (who was probably my favorite character), Dwayne, Kevin, Karen Gillian. We were also given pretty cool features like Danny flippin Divito. Anyways, this movie is a great movie to watch when you need a good laugh and a plus is that it is pg-13 so it also fits the category for a family movie night. See y'all next week for a new movie review.

[twinanimatronics]

do you think the twins would enjoy "jumanji: the next level" watched it yesterday (and yes i know im hella late to watch it)

I still need to watch the new Jumanji movies myself ngl

Nothing will beat the Robin Williams classic tho

[stillwastingmytimereading]

So yeah. Just finished watching Jumanji: the next level. There’s gonna be spoilers, so if you haven’t watched, don’t read on

first of all, i loved it so so much. 

For a moment there i thought that bethany and martha were maybe together, from the way it showed them, texting, the subtle pride flag, the way they looked at each other in the diner...

Then, once they got into the game. omg. i love characters and i missed them so much. once they found spencer and he had a girl character, ming, amazing, and honestly, for a second there i hoped we would get a little bit of wlw content between ruby and ming cause that would be awesome. 

when i tell you that i screamed when i saw bethany going to alex’s house. and then when alex arrived to Jumanji with her...i lost my mind. i missed him so much. also not him literally riding bethany...

when they got to the fortress thing and ruby pretended to be the bride, i knew it was coming, but still. and then when fridge pulled out the radio and turned on her dance fighting song...feral. just. feral. 

and alex saving the horse/milo, and saying ‘ok, it’s an obstacle curse, you’re good at those’ my boyyyyy i missed him so much. and him making dad jokes pls amazing. and when he turned on the horse’s skillset and we couldn’t see it but once they got to the bridge my mind ‘CAN THE HORSE FLY’ and guess what, the horse CAN FLY. SO THERE’S THAT, I LOVE THAT

the entire zeppeling scene, the berry, spencer using it against the other guy cause it’s his weakness. i cannot even anymore. and then milo and eddie flying above the clouds to the sun...breath taking okay, the height of filmmaking. 

and ngl, kinda saw it coming when milo said he wanted to stay in Jumanji, especially after he revealed that he would be dying soon in the real world, but still seeing him fly off was really beautiful. 

and then when they got back, and everyone was so happy. also we need more bethany and alex content, just bethany being bethany’s godmother or smth or idk we just need more of them ok. 

and then when they went to the diner and then seeing the fixer guy touch the game and me just going no no no no no. and then seeing the goddamn ostriches run down the street like. wtf. did Jumanji come to their world now????

to summarize. 

mind? lost. favourite movie? found. hotel? trivago. 

[nek-ros]

im watching tv with my grandma but the movie that came up is jumanji the next level and i realize this would be fucking insane to explain to my grandma

[aces-to-apples]

comfort movie tag game

I was tagged by @dead-cowboy

rules: list your top ten favorite comfort flicks.

Stardust

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Pacific Rim

The Mummy(/Returns)

Julie & Julia

The Magnificent Seven

Warcraft (2016)

Frozen II

Jumanji: The Next Level

Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith

The whole trend of "comfort [whatever]" isn't really something I understand so I just went with movies I'm down to watch pretty much any time. (To be fair The Mummy and Returns are two movies but I figure that balances with how I only like the Julia portions of Julie&Julia.)(Honestly I don't watch a whole lot of films, I'm much more of a tv show person.)

Tagging whoever wants to play!

[funforahermit]

So I just watched Jumanji The Next Level, and as someone who loved the original back in the day I must say the thing that really kicked me in the feels at the end was Nora :')

[rhysdarbinizedarby]

Fan photos with Rhys Darby for Jumanji: The Next Level

Steve Zaragoza: WOW. SUPER THANKS to @sonypictures and @jumanjimovie for the AMAZING 2-day journey!! I had such an amazing time with awesome old friends and new ones! All in celebration of #jumanjithenextlevel ON DIGITAL NOW AND ON DVD AND BLURAY on 3/17!!! Oh we also drove dune buggies in the rain STAY TUNED for a very rad vlog!! #ad

vamp : Huge thank you to @jumanjimovie & @sonypictures for a killer 2 day adventure! We did some @voidvr, met some epic birds at @ostrich_land and then hit the dunes today w/ @sunbuggy!!! Video coming soon #fiends #jumanjithenextlevel is available now on digital and coming to Blu-ray March 17th! #ad

Achara Kirk: @rhysiedarby ‘s expression pretty much sums up what I was feeling inside. #Ad It was such a treat to meet Rhys Darby, who I have been a fan of since I watched him as Murray on Flight of The Conchords. Getting to meet him was a dream come true and he was every bit as funny, sweet and charming as I could have imagined. Catch him in Jumanji: The Next Level out now on digital and on blu-ray on March 17th. Thank you so much @sonypictures for inviting me and allowing me to meet one of my comedy heroes ❤️

Achara Kirk: So much can change in a week. This time last week I was having the time of my life with this lovable bunch of goofballs. We did VR, hung out with ostriches and drove dune buggies in a storm! Now we’re practicing social distancing at home. . . While we’re doing our part for the safety of our community it’s actually the perfect time to catch up on movies and shows. #Ad Coincidentally #jumanjithenextlevel is available now on digital and on blu-ray on 3/17. Thanks so much @jumanjimovie and @sonypictures for inviting me on this trip and gifting me wonderful experiences and the best gift of all - new friends ❤️

Alana Fickes:

💛THANK YOU to @sonypictures and @jumanjimovie for putting together such a fun adventure last week! Now that we’re all cooped up, I couldn’t be more grateful that this trip happened (Video coming soon on @thevalleyfolk ). I got to FANGIRL at @rhysiedarby , bond with some great new friends, have the craziest and best VR experience of my life, play with Ostriches, and take an intense dune buggy through a rainstorm 🙌. Truly an adventure!

@jumanjimovie The Next Level is out now on Digital and Blu-ray! It’s honestly a really fun distraction from isolation 😅, with gorgeous scenery! Please enjoy!

[lady-of-the-spirit]

I'm watching Jumanji The Next Level and I forgot how much i love this group of friends!

[quantumstarpaths]

◈   TAG NINE PEOPLE YOU’D LIKE TO KNOW BETTER!

favourite colour(s): turquoise and hot pink

favourite flavour(s): rose, maple, Blue.

favourite genre(s): hmm mystery, some lighter horror, scifi, i like fantasy but ive fallen out of it a little in recent years.

favourite music:  i’ve been into will wood lately. so whatever that is. alt? pop, rock. etc.

favourite movie(s):  phantom of the paradise!!!! also the lego batman movie. those are two weird movies to go together but they really are like the ones i could always watch. 

favourite series: star trek...my FAVE is the twilight zone, always. anything that’s an anthology is really a good one for me. guillermo del toro’s cabinet of curiosities was really good.

last song: uhh i dont remember. i dont listen to music that often.

last series: i think it was the last ep of prodigy. oh no! i watched the first ep of servant s4 this morning.

last movie: um. jumanji! the third one. the next level. i think. or bodies bodies bodies. i dont remember which was first.

currently reading:  robinson crusoe

currently watching: right this moment? my sister playing gotham knights. like a show? like i said i watched servant this morning.

currently working on: this! i just finished the ed/paul reply so thats all i had. also reading robinson crusoe. 

tagged by: @nebulaties

tagging: you c: <3

[illbeyourreasonwhy]

Tag 9 people you want to get to know better

Tagged by @dragonsareawesome123 thank youu

Three ships: Ambi, Patpran, Lumax

First ever ship: I think maybe Cat and Robbie from Victorious?

Last song: Supercollide by Banners

Last film: Jumanji: The Next Level

Currently reading: Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins (I’m thoroughly enjoying this reread)

Currently watching: at the moment? I have How I Met Your Mother in the background

Currently consuming: Hot chocolate

Currently craving: inspiration to write

Tagging: @secretly-of-course @jealous-kippen @ella-enchanted @localspacelesbian @rosedavid @beaaautifulstorm-blog @sadieannerue @theobligatedklutz 

[theuntamednarrator]

thank you for the tag @enbyleighlines !

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fave colour: purple

currently reading: Crying in H Mart and Hippie

last song: Strike! from the aloto soundtrack

last series: A League of Their Own and The Sandman (currently rewatching both)

last movie: I think it was actually Jumanji The Next Level?

currently working on: a birthday jigsaw puzzle from my sister!

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share 10 different favorite characters from ten different pieces of media in no particular order, then tag 10 people

Merry Brandybuck (LotR) - underrated character imho

Jess McCready (aloto) - I have only had her for a week and a day but if anything happens to her I will kill everyone in this room

Hardison (Leverage) - he's a genius and he chose crime against rich people we simply must stan

Cecil Palmer (wtnv) - he loves his husband so much and he's so weird

Ponyo (Ponyo) - my first Ghibli heroine, she fills me with joy

Fleabag (Fleabag) - that show ruined my life it was so good

Willow Rosenberg (BtVS) - I wanted to marry her so bad

Eleanor Shellstrop (The Good Place) - she's fabulous and the end of the series made me sob like a baby

Rick O'Connell (The Mummy) - anyone who watched that movie without loving him is not someone I can relate to

Elizabeth Swan (PotC) - c'mooooon