Jake Kasdan’s 2019 film “Jumanji: The Subsequent Degree” opens with returning hero Spencer already at low ebb—he’s lonely at school, browbeaten at work and sharing his bed room with Grandpa Eddie. However the factor that pushes him over the sting, driving him again into the harmful alternate actuality of the film’s title, is the concept that life’s inevitable decline has already begun.
“Getting previous sucks,” Eddie says, as he fiddles with the moveable oxygen machine on his bedside desk. “Don’t let anyone inform you any completely different.”