The messages of it are very classic, but positive, affirmative messages. Right now, something that's optimistic and not cynical almost feels edgy. Usually when you hear that with a family movie, it becomes a cynical thing - this movie felt rather un-cynical. I always thought the sense of humor was a little more adult, you know? If anything, I was surprised that little kids connected with it more than I expected to. That it could work in a lot of different contexts like that. In a way, we were always trying to age it up, and hoping that it could be legitimately entertaining on a date, as well as if you take your little kids - or kids can take their parents, kids can take their grandparents. We were trying to make it actually funny in a way that translates for people of all different ages. Was that an aspect you saw in it, or something you've been pleasantly surprised about?Īs much as we always knew it was a movie for families, i was always really essential to me that it be a movie that I would love now. It's definitely a family movie, but I know plenty of single adults in their 20s and 30s who loved it. The fact that it has sort of found that life is fantastic. It was a lot like the kind of movies that I loved growing up. I always hoped, as I was making this movie, that it could be like a big, satisfying movie for a generation of families. People found it over the course of a long time, and then told their friends, and kept going back to see it again. It's been just this fantastic and fun and humbling thing. Jake Kasdan: First of all, I would say we were as surprised as anyone that it's kept going the way it has. What do you think it was that made people connect to this movie the degree they did? CBR: Jake, expectations weren't small going into opening weekend for Jumanji - it's a big movie with a lot of big stars - but people were surprised by the amount it succeeded, and how it performed week to week with great word of mouth.
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