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View Gallery: Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt star in the Disney film 'Jungle Cruise' Remember back in 2003when “Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl” came out and movie snobs were appalled? A movie based on a Disney ride! Sacrilege! Then the movie was released, critics and audiences liked it and all was forgiven. (Not so for the horrible sequels in the franchise, but that’s another story.) Now movies are based on Twitter threads — This is not to say that “Jungle Cruise” is as good as the first “Pirates of the Caribbean” movie. It’s not. In fact it’s not really good at all. It’s just kind of fun to remember the uproar. Johnson plays a skipper whose help Blunt needs Not only is “Jungle Cruise” based on the Disney ride, the filmmakers manage to work a version of the ride into the movie. It’s near the start, when Frank Wolff (Johnson), a ne’er-do-well skipper ofa broken-down barge, is leading river tours in the Amazon around the outbreak of World War I. Much like the hosts of the ride, Frank points out supposed dangers and pitfalls, and squeezes cash out of his passengers/audience. Frank is constantly in financial trouble. He’s in hock to Nilo (Paul Giamatti, for some reason, presumably a lucrative payday), who takes Frank's engine while he waits for payment. Meanwhile, Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt, also for some reason; see lucrative payday above) needs a skipper. She’s a scientist living in a time and place — London — in which her options are severely limited...

Mickey Mouse loves Metallica now. This is the realization that may dawn on you as you recognize strains of “Nothing Else Matters” flitting in and out of the musical score in Jungle Cruise, the new live-action Disney film starring The Rock. For me, it was the second consecutive film I saw to feature James, Kirk, Lars and the gang, the first being HBO’s Woodstock 99 documentary, Peace, Love, And Rage. It almost goes without saying that it’s weird to see Metallica as a symbol of white male angst one minute and as background music in a girlboss adaptation of a Disneyland ride the next. And that was probably the point: to force Dudes Of A Certain Demo to reconsider what it means to be “a Disney movie.” Just as Cruella incorporated Jungle Cruise has Metallica and extended allusions to Werner Herzog ( Jungle Cruise‘s villain shares a name and historical basis with Klaus Kinski in Aguirre: Wrath Of God). Which is to say, Jungle Cruise is built on a cultural framework that would be virtually indistinguishable from an Anthony Bourdain episode about the Amazon — Herzog, Metallica, mortality. Even stranger, it sort of works. Jungle Cruise is a zany mashup of Indiana Jones and Pirates Of The Caribbean (with a dash of Avatar) that’s miles better than the last installments of either (not that that’s saying much). It’s a vaguely anti-colonial thrill ride from the most successful cultural colonizers of all time, proof that as Disney’s IP-mining operation continues apace, at least they’re g...