Disney’s latest ride-turned-blockbuster features a familiar name, but not a familiar face.
handles Trader Sam in a radically different way. The character still exists, but he’s now a wily woman, played by Mexican actress Veronica Falcón. And while English siblings Lily and MacGregor Houghton are delivered to what they’re told is a tribe of ruthless cannibals with sharp spears and wooden masks, it’s quickly revealed that it’s all an act, a tourist-bilking scam conjured by the cruise’s skipper, Frank and Sam herself. The “ooga-booga stuff,” as she puts it, is just for show.
On one hand, this is a pleasant twist on how the Jungle Cruise typically operates. Gender-flipping Sam, and presenting her as extremely self-reliant—in one scene, she escapes the clutches of a villainous German royal with no regard for MacGregor’s safety—allows her more agency than the ride’s character, who simply served as one of the last opportunities on the cruise for skippers to let loose some bad jokes.
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