
Jumanji: The Next Level
2019

Representation Score
Excellent
2023
PG-13Director
Jonathan Goldstein, John Francis Daley
Runtime
134 minutes
Average Rating
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The film successfully updates high-fantasy clichés by incorporating a diverse cast into a non-hierarchical society. It avoids common genre pitfalls by ensuring characters of color and women have significant influence and leadership roles. While the film excels in racial and gender representation, it lacks explicit LGBTQ+ identities and specific disability-focused narratives. The world-building favors a flexible social landscape and moral relativism over traditional institutional structures. Overall, the production achieves a high level of inclusion by making diversity a natural part of the story rather than a central plot element.
Category Breakdown
The film highlights a close-knit community and fatherly bonds but does not include explicit LGBTQ+ identities or same-sex relationships. The social environment feels flexible rather than strictly assuming everyone is straight or cisgender.
Holga challenges traditional stereotypes by being a strong leader and physically capable character. The group operates with a collaborative and merit-based system rather than a hierarchical one.
The film features actors of color in key roles where they play important parts in driving the story. This approach ensures that diverse identities are integrated naturally into the narrative.
The story portrays its main characters as likable troublemakers who resist oppressive authority. It emphasizes personal loyalty and found family over strict institutional morality.
The film showcases a variety of physical abilities and skills among the characters. However, there are no character arcs specifically focused on visible or invisible disabilities.
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Official Synopsis
A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers undertake an epic heist to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

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