‘Jungle Cruise’ Is Fun but Has Questionable Representation
'Jungle Cruise' is fun if you can ignore the racism of the ride it’s based on and the film’s bland, stereotypical characters.

This is the story of a Navy captain, a provincial government official during the Onganía dictatorship. Despite being married, he falls in love with the young receptionist at the municipal office. The soldier cannot divorce her because it would ruin his military and political career, so he decides to commit a brutal crime.
'Jungle Cruise' is fun if you can ignore the racism of the ride it’s based on and the film’s bland, stereotypical characters.
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It only seems to prove that when the company had their backs against the wall and needed an all pleasing, generic movie that had to make up for The Last Jedi, they chose to sacrifice almost everything that made their main protagonist interesting and that made her stand out as the strong female character that a generation of young movie goers was supposed to look up to. Instead, we were left with a Rey that was so much less than she could have been. And I guess that’s the real story of Rey and The Rise of Skywalker; they could have been so much more, but they were just more of the same.
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We are incredibly blessed that this movie is available for us to see, and we should take advantage of the opportunity we’ve been given.