Glenn Ficarra

2022 movie #19. 2021. A totally ridiculous premise with surprising cheesy CGI (especially the pet tiger), but also pretty entertaining. British lady scientist (Blunt) hires riverboat captain (Johnson) to take her up the Amazon in search of a mythological tree with healing powers

Various parties want a MacGuffin hidden in the Amazon jungle.

1/4 (Bad)

Jungle adventure comedies are my jam, and I'm a fan of both Johnson and Blunt. But this movie is garbage. Presumably some Disney producer had a laundry list of things to put in a movie (mostly stuff from Pirates of the Caribbean), and someone just wrote them all down and called it a script.

(Dec. 2021)

A divorced, middle-aged man learns to pick up women.

Great cast, good writing, and an effective balancing of comedy and drama.

Concept: D
Story: B
Characters: A
Dialog: B
Pacing: B
Cinematography: B
Special effects/design: B
Acting: B
Music: B

Enjoyment: B

GPA: 2.9/4

Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor

98 min