To my mind, there's only one good movie based around that of a board game, and it's name is Jumanji. This Robin Williams, uh, comedy (?) was a big hitter back in its day, and told a sort of jungle-based time travel story about a kid who gets sucked into a board game in 1969 and finds himself released almost thirty years later, only to go up against stampedes, evil plants and a big game hunter who wants to shoot him in the head. The implications are horrific, yes, and the movie is very much a product of its era (some of the SFX are dated as heck), but I always had time for Jumanji as a kid. I realise that puts me in the minority, but I just can't criticize a movie that has monkeys driving a police car. It's my only weakness. Will The Remake Be Any Good? Aside from the fact that I'm not sure a remake is even warranted, I don't really know. What else is there to say about cursed jungle board games that this movie didn't already? I was going to just write that it's only been 10 years or so since the original, so do we really need another one, but then I realised it's been closer to 20. Which is to say, Jumanji is way older than I remember it being, and time is going really, really fast. How depressing. Anyway, at the moment Zack Helm (Stranger Than Fiction) is in the process of penning the script, so you can probably expect this to hit theatres in a few years.