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![]() There's danger from snakes, ostriches, and boobytraps. Following the first movie's jungle adventure, this sequel takes them through the desert and to a castle on an icy mountaintop, with hold-your-breath perilous travels by dune buggy, rope bridge, and zeppelin. The production design by Bill Brzeski is stunning and thrillingly imaginative, while the stirring music from Henry Jackman suggests not just the best in video games but the most fondly remembered classic adventure films. ![]() Like all good video games, this level is more difficult than the last. ![]() A few of those lives get used up right away as Martha/Ruby tries to explain to the befuddled Eddie and Milo what is going on. Once again, each of the avatars has three bars on the wrist, one for each life the game allows. Milo is the weapons knapsack-carrying Mouse Finbar ( Kevin Hart), while Fridge is the former Bethany avatar, pudgy map-expert Dr. The game is once again up to mischief, and this time, while Martha is again dance-fighting expert Ruby Roundhouse ( Karen Gillan), it is Eddie who shows up as Dr. When he does not return, Martha, Bethany ( Madison Iseman) and Fridge ( Ser'Darius Blain) re-enter the game to rescue him. And so, he goes back inside the game where the life and death challenges somehow seem more familiar and easier to handle than real life. Spencer misses the confidence he had as the video game avatar Dr. Eddie's estranged former business partner Milo ( Danny Glover) comes over to try to repair their relationship, but Eddie is not interested. Spencer's grandfather Eddie ( Danny DeVito) is recuperating from hip surgery, so he is in the house, too, along with his stair lift, hospital bed, and CPAP machine. Maintaining his romance with Martha ( Morgan Turner) long-distance has been rocky and as he returns home for Christmas break he is not sure whether they are on or off. ![]() Spencer ( Alex Wolff) is now a freshman at NYU. ![]()
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