‘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.

La Tunga Tunga is a murga that is committed to a creative, collaborative, and community-based process, organizing itself to take part in Carnival with the aim of giving voice to collective grievances. In 2025, the national and local government are questioning cultural practices and artistic collectives. In this context, they are defunding culture and, in particular, the neighborhood carnival parades (corsos). La Tunga Tunga resists through humor and dance, asserting celebration as a right and public spaces as territories of struggle.
'Jungle Cruise' is fun if you can ignore the racism of the ride it’s based on and the film’s bland, stereotypical characters.
I write for a diversity-focused film review blog, so I’ll be honest: I really wanted to like Pretty Lethal. Starring Maddie Ziegler, Lana Condor, Iris Apatow, Avantika, and Millicent Simmonds, Amazon Prime’s new thriller seemed like it would be a girl power movie about dancers with a horror action twist. Sort of a Suspiria for teens. But with shallow and unlikeable characters, a confusing plot, an overreliance on violence, and cringey dialogue, any fun the movie started out with was quickly lost. What was left was a faint echo of greater horror movies about dancers made before.
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