Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey
It is difficult to tell whether the filmmakers intended Welcome to the Jungle as a satire or a farce. It is neither funny enough, nor clever enough, to measure up in either case.
Puerto Rico, United States, United Kingdom · 2013
1h 35m
Director Rob Meltzer
Starring Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adam Brody, Rob Huebel, Kristen Schaal
Genre Comedy
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A company retreat on a tropical island goes terribly awry.
Los Angeles Times by Betsy Sharkey
It is difficult to tell whether the filmmakers intended Welcome to the Jungle as a satire or a farce. It is neither funny enough, nor clever enough, to measure up in either case.
New York Daily News by Elizabeth Weitzman
The real challenge is for viewers, who must tolerate overacting, idiotic scatological jokes and juvenile innuendo. The only way it might be endurable is if you’re wasted, too.
Welcome to the Jungle, directed by Rob Meltzer from a script by Jeff Kauffmann, is satanically bad.
The A.V. Club by Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
Van Damme’s performance is about the only element left unscathed by the movie’s compulsion to point out its own absurdity.
The Hollywood Reporter by John DeFore
The story makes 94 minutes seem as long as a season of Lost and as fresh as the seventh viewing of a Gilligan's Island rerun.
The Dissolve by Noah Berlatsky
The film is hyper-aware of the ridiculousness of the patriarchal obsession with masculinity-as-penis-size—and yet, in the end, and rather helplessly, it’s still mired in a banal narrative of masculine self-actualization.
Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea
Director Rob Meltzer, who made the kind-of-amusing meta short "I Am Stamos," directs things in shameless, let's-get-this-thing-over-with style, throwing in some gratuitous topless (female) nudity and allowing the usually amusing Kristen Schaal to let loose with a barrage of potty-mouthisms.
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