Movie review: Emily Blunt is absolutely luminous in Jungle Cruise

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Movie review: Emily Blunt is absolutely luminous in Jungle Cruise

Dwayne Johnson is in fine beefcake form with some of the cheesiest puns ever in Jungle Cruise.

Jungle Cruise ****

Movies based on theme park rides tend not to inspire a huge amount of confidence, but Disney’s Jungle Cruise (12A) delivers in spades. Maverick scientist Dr Lily Houghton (Emily Blunt) departs London in 1916, bound for the Amazon jungle and — she hopes — the mythical ‘Tears of the Moon’, aka blossoms from a tree reputed to effect miracle cures. 

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