jumanji

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Director Jake Kasdan is working from a screenplay credited to four writers: Chris McKenna and Erik Sommers ([i]Spider-Man: Homecoming[/i]), Scott Rosenberg ([i]Zoo[/i]), and Jeff Pinkner ([i]Zoo, Fringe[/i]). That’s rarely a good sign, often indicating that the studio brought on more writers to fiddle with a script they weren’t sure about. But it mostly works in this case, and in the hands of Kasdan (who is mostly a TV director but also made the hilarious 2007 musical-biopic spoof [i]Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story[/i]), it retains just enough of an unexpected off-kilter edge to make its jokes land.