Best: Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
The Rock may have a few entries among the action-adventure films mentioned on this list, and he’s part of a great cast here, but what makes Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle work so well is the clever way filmmaker Jake Kasdan (son of Raiders scribe Lawrence Kasdan) takes a game from a movie based on a book, and turns it into a video game that sucks in kids from the real world to live out an in-game adventure. Even better, the kids’ avatars take the form of archeological action-story archetypes that somehow both subvert and perfectly match the stars cast to play them. Jack Black as a teenage girl is perfection.
