Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has taken to social media to have fun his highest-ever Rotten Tomato rating with Jungle Cruise, which launched on Friday in cinemas and on Disney Plus by way of Premier Access.
The 49-year-old star, who is without doubt one of the world’s highest-grossing and highest-paid actors, stars as Frank ‘Skipper’ Wolff within the action-adventure comedy, which is predicated on the enduring Disney Parks attraction that Walt Disney conceptualised for Disneyland’s opening day in 1955.The movie had initially been crusing in direction of a summer time 2020 launch earlier than Disney postponed its launch amid the coronavirus pandemic.
Posting near-identical remarks on each Twitter and Instagram, the previous wrestler wrote: ‘Just blown away. Thank you!!! Highest @RottenTomatoes audience score of my entire career ~ and that’s a protracted ass time trigger I’m a dinosaur.
‘Jumanji 87% Jumanji 2 87% Hobbs 88% Moana 89% JUNGLE CRUISE 94%!!!! [sic]
‘People have spoken! The adventure of a lifetime….’
The movie posted a 94% viewers rating on Rotten Tomatoes on its launch day, 30 July, though it has dropped since barely to 93% as of 1 August, which nonetheless places it just a few factors forward of Johnson’s second hottest movie with audiences, Disney’s Moana.
It’s additionally ‘fresh’ on the Tomatometer at 63%, which is the critic rating for the movie primarily based on 259 opinions at the moment. Its contemporary standing reveals that it has had extra optimistic than destructive opinions thus far, in any other case it might price as ‘rotten’.
The movie has additionally snagged $32.4million (£23.4m) in US ticket gross sales on its opening weekend, plus one other $30m (£21.5m) from its Disney Plus Premier Access launch, that are respectable figures in present circumstances.
Jungle Cruise additionally stars Emily Blunt as Dr Lily Houghton, a botanist eager to find a legendary flower with magical therapeutic powers within the Amazon, and Frank is the skipper with the boat that may assist get her there.
Jungle Cruise’s trio of leads (Picture: Disney)
Along for the journey is Jack Whitehall as her less-than-enthusiastic brother MacGregor, who’s the primary overtly homosexual character in a serious Disney film.
Talking about his expertise making the movie with Metro.co.uk, Jack admitted to discovering it ‘humiliating’ when he dislocated a rib whereas on an train bike – off set – as he tried to learn the subtitles on a Drew Barrymore movie.
The comic defined: ‘It felt just so humiliating when Dwayne [Johnson] is pumping huge amounts of iron over in his gym and I dislocate a rib watching 50 First Dates on an exercise bike!’
Jungle Cruise is in cinemas now and accessible on Disney Plus with Premier Access.
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