The tone of this movie is interesting -- the stakes are both dramatic and high, but it's balanced with a lot of fun, tongue and cheek dialogue.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

Close shines in drama with strong language, adult themes.

In 2004 Jonathan Hensleigh made The Punisher, a brutal flick that had some following. Jonathan thought to pick in on the docu style flicks by making the most shocking of them all, the cannibal script. To add more believability he added some backstory to it. Michael Clark Rockefeller disappeared during an expedition in the Asmat region of southwestern Netherlands New Guinea. His body was never found and it was believed that he was attacked by a crocodile although some say back then in the sixties cannibals were still living in that area. 4 friends are going to do some research towards Rockefeller on the island. Of course things go wrong an they do enter cannibal territory.The most shocking was Cannibal Holocaust back in 1980. Still up to today people are afraid to watch this gory flick. The problem with Welcome To The Jungle is that they tried to remake Cannibal Holocaust. It failed on all bits. The script is really boring. You have to wait until the last 20 minutes before the cruelty comes in. Before that there is a lot of talking and arguing between the friends. And even when they enter the cannibals it looks ridiculous. It's not by putting some skulls on a rock that you have a cannibal zone. On the part of the gore what's a natural fact in those kind of movies, well, it's low too. You do see parts of bodies everywhere but nothing is shown on-screen. Maybe the best part is when they discover one of their friend's corpse. The acting was okay but the script failed on all parts. Guns 'n' Roses Welcome To The Jungle sounds creepier than this flick.Gore 2/5 Nudity 0,5/5 Effects 2/5 Story 1/5 Comedy 0/5

I cannot give this film just one star, since it might be prophetic, unintentionally of course, in some way.The USA is raising havoc all over the world or, should I maybe say, the carefree rich part of the USA is raising havoc all over the world. Nevertheless, some rich kids decide to enter the world of cannibals in quest of another rich kid who went missing fifty years earlier in the same region. Are they totally mad or what?Well, for one thing, they are not making revolution in the USA and why should they? They belong to the five per cent richest kids and no nothing of the lives of the poor. There is some indication that two of the four are somewhat less rich but nonetheless carefree just the same. The world, as they see it, seems to be their oyster or private playground, so they think. The only somewhat sympathetic character of the four is the poorer girl and she gets impaled. As for the other three, all you feel is that they get their come-uppance.The rich have gotten out of hand but, unfortunately, I don't believe that there are more than a very few of them that would behave as careless as these four. Still this film is made for some sort of audience like any other film. But is the youth of today really this brainless? I cannot help but feel bewildered when I see this film, not because of the plot as much as because of the characters. I cannot connect to these kids. Their world bears no resemblance whatsoever to the world I grew up in, which was probably as much filled with mendacity but in which we still asked ourselves, more than anything else, what was the proper way to live. We had some hope for the future and felt that things were going in the right way, so we did not make a serious revolution. Kids of today know or should know that things are not going the right way and that they must revolt much more seriously than we ever did but instead they don't even seem to discuss a revolution and maybe plan "adventures" like in this film. I hope this is not so and that this film does not really have any audience at all except for those who like to see rich kids getting a thorough whooping'.

This film was not the worst i have ever seen, but any worse and it would have been a real test to make it through the entire movie. Although the director Jonathan Hensleigh is by no means one of my favourite directors i find it hard to believe he wrote die hard with a vengeance and jumanji for example, both action movies that although he didn't direct were full of exciting and very creative ideas. What happened! The characters in this film were so easily dislikable with their endless bickering and one-up-man-ship that their downfall couldn't come fast enough for me. If they portrayed any character i would have been happy to sit for longer and wait for it to appear, but it was like the script was produced by a teenager with an attitude problem. All the main characters were obnoxious and self centred. You may argue that this was to an extent, partly at least the point of the film? like cannibal holocaust and others in same elk which portrayed the white people from privileged backgrounds were actually more sinister and barbaric than the characters who ate humans in the jungle, maybe the idea was that these the main charters were more hateful than the cannibals? Either way, i would argue you could have dealt with that potential idea far quicker and stopped wasting time. I don't know, just not my thing and like other have mentioned it obviously tried to live up to the old classic cannibal films and failed almost before it had started.

"Welcome to the Jungle" tells the story of four spoiled and obnoxious Americans who set out into the jungles of New Guinea armed with a few digital cameras to find the missing Michael Rockefeller and make themselves rich by getting an exclusive interview with him. Of course they are captured and killed by the tribe of savages.I must admit that the story is fairly convincing and the location sets provide some spooky atmosphere,but the characters are dumb and annoying.I really wanted them to suffer painful death just not to listen their constant whining.Almost complete lack of gore and nudity is very disappointing.While Jonathan Hensleigh has denied that his film has anything to do with Ruggero Deodato's infamous "Cannibal Holocaust" the similarities are obvious(check out the girl impaled on bamboo stick).There are a couple of moments where the graphic special effects are actually done quite well,but the inane dialogue and my general hatred for half the cast reduced my enjoyment.Better watch "Cannibal Holocaust","Eaten Alive" or "Jungle Holocaust" again.