“Jungle Cruise” is the latest Disney theme park ride to inspire a movie, following “Pirates Of The Caribbean.” Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, a Freedom High School graduate, skippers a steamboat on the Amazon River. Emily Blunt, a botanist, hires him to take her up-river on a quest to find a legendary flower believed to have phenomenal healing powers. Paul Willistein of the Lehigh Valley Press reviews the action-adventure, comedy-fantasy film.
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(Original air-date: 8/9/21)