Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt set out on an adventure together in the trailer for Disney’s movie adaptation of the Jungle Cruise theme park ride. The Mouse House scored an unexpected hit when it released Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl back in 2003, but its subsequent attempts to launch a franchise based on its popular theme park attractions haven’t panned out so well.
The official Jungle Cruise trailer dropped online today ahead of its premiere in theaters with this month’s Disney release, Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (a movie that, appropriately enough, is opening on the same day Jungle Cruise was set to arrive before it was pushed back to Summer 2020). You can check it out in the space below, followed by the poster.
With Jaume Collet-Serra (Non-Stop, The Shallows) directing and its sun-lit spectacle, Jungle Cruise has the makings of a mostly enjoyable, Disney-fied action-adventure in the vein of Indiana Jones, Romancing the Stone, and The Mummy. Again, the film is clearly drawing from the Pirates of the Caribbean playbook, so it probably won’t feel as fresh as Curse of the Black Pearl did in 2003. Not to mention, with Jumanji: The Next Level premiering in a couple of months, the idea of a trip to the jungle with Johnson sounds less inspired now than it did when he joined Jungle Cruise back in 2015. Still, at the very least, it ought to provide a welcome breather from the ongoing parade of Disney live-action remakes next year.
Source: Disney
- Jungle Cruise Release Date: 2021-07-30
