Another excuse for Robin Williams to behave as an overgrown child: he's been trapped inside a magical game board since boyhood, until his release twenty-six years later. (A cumbersome premise that delays his arrival on screen by half an hour.) But the movie, however designed as a vehicle for Williams, is really driven by special effects. Every roll of the dice brings another demonstration of state-of-the-art (post-Jurassic Park) technology: malevolent monkeys, jumbo mosquitoes, giant spiders, flood, earthquake, a stampede of rhinos and elephants, etc. The fairy-tale moral of the thing is "Face your fears," but even more fearsome than the individual frights is their cumulative monotony. Bonnie Hunt, Kirsten Dunst, Jonathan Hyde, David Alan Grier, Bebe Neuwirth; directed by Joe Johnston. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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