“Jungle Cruise” is an adventure film based on a Disney ride. We’ve already had “Pirates of the Caribbean” and “Haunted Mansion” so I wouldn’t be surprised if we don’t now get even more films made about Disney ride. I’m laughing just thinking about a “It’s A Small World” film. Anyway, “Jungle Cruise” starts off with promise. However, it just drops the ball about halfway through.

In “Jungle Cruise”, adventurer Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt “The Adjustment Bureau”, “Edge Of Tomorrow”) is out to find an ancient tree with a mystical power that could revolutionise the world. She travels to the Amazon and enlists the help of wisecracking skipper Frank Wolff (Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson “The Scorpion King”).

Emily Blunt is good in this movie and I don’t have anything negative to say about her performance or her character. I thought Dwayne Johnson was okay and I like when he’s telling the goofy jokes near the beginning as it’s very reminiscent of the “Jungle Cruise” theme park ride experience. Unfortunately, the film decides to give us some twists that ruin his character. Also, I can’t stand Jack Whitehall (“The Bad Education Movie”) as Lily’s brother. The filmmakers seemed to feel the need to add in details about the character’s private life that have no impact on the story; it’s just pointless. Some of the special effects on the animals and monsters don’t look all that great, I was just very aware that I was looking at something made in a computer.

“Jungle Cruise” starts out feeling like an “Indiana Jones” movie. Sadly, it gets too interested in overusing special effects. By the end, it felt pretty indistinguishable from “Pirates of the Caribbean” and the Brendan Fraser “Mummy” movies. “Jungle Cruise” is not a terrible film and I loved parts of it. I just felt it was going in a good direction but then it changed course and everything just went south.