Jumanji (1995)

A boy (Adam Hann-Byrd) finds an old board game called Jumanji at an excavation site. That evening when he attempts to play the game with a friend (Laura Bell Bundy), the board game shows supernatural powers. First causing bats to fly into the living room then sucking him into a vortex. Jump 26 years later, and two new kids (Kirsten Dunst, Bradley Pierce) and their aunt (Bebe Neuwirth) move into the house where the kids discover the game in the attic. This CGI laden fantasy adventure doesn't make much demands on its audience (to put it mildly) and though it's aimed at kids, undiscerning adults should find it mildly and mindlessly entertaining too. It's a very noisy film what with hysterical screaming, destruction, crashes, floods and wild animal stampedes, etc., even the James Horner score is noisy. A relatively restrained Robin Williams plays Hann-Byrd as an adult with Bonnie Hunt taking over for Bundy. Directed by Joe Johnston (HONEY I SHRUNK THE KIDS) and with David Alan Grier, Jonathan Hyde (playing two roles) and Patricia Clarkson.