History Awesome / Jumanji

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* Alan and Van Pelt's final faceoff.

'''Van Pelt:''' ''(laughing)'' Good lad! Good lad. [[VillainRespect You've finally become a man... Alan]]. ''[raises gun]'' Any last words?\\

'''Van Pelt:''' ...Good lad. You're finally acting like a man. ''[raises gun]'' Any last words?\\

* In a more Meta awesome moment for the filmmakers, when Alan finds the buried game at the construction site, he lifts it out of the sand-filled chest it was hidden in, leading to a particularly cool looking shot of all the sand slowly sliding off to reveal the ominous Jumanji box, almost looking like it dissolves into the logo.

* A small one, but in the prologue, when speaking with Alan, Carl shows his ground-breaking invention: Parrish ''Sneakers''. While the concept of trainers may not be new since ([[OlderThanTheyThink they were actually invented in the late 1800s]]), this style looks like a time traveler dropped them off from the '90s. And this is the 1969 mind you! Carl wasn't exaggerating when he claimed these were the future.

* Possibly when Judy tells Aunt Nora that she didn't lie when she found out the only reason they were able to get the house dirt cheap was because a supposed murder took place.

** Her greatest moment comes when she is shot in the ''neck'' with poisonous barbs. She, a twelve year old CHILD spends about five seconds processing what has happened and the fact that she will almost surely die, before [[StoicWoobie calmly pulling out the barbs]], telling her brother "[[BlatantLies I'm fine]]. [[GreaterNeedThanMine help them.]]" Then bringing the game board over to Alan so he can roll his turn without a word of complaint. NervesOfSteel doesn't even BEGIN to cover it.

** Just the ''entire'' ResetButton scene is awesome, given how you've seen Alan and the others go through '''so much fucking hell''' and to see all of the mess the game has made get sucked back into Jumanji where it belongs is amazing, especially Van Pelt's own freak out as he's dragged back into the game.

* A small one, but in the prologue, when speaking with Alan, Carl shows his ground-breaking invention: Parrish ''Sneakers''. While the concept of trainers may not be new (as they were invented in the late 1800s), this style looks like a time traveler dropped them off from the 90s. And this is the 60s mind you! Carl wasn't exaggerating when he claimed these were the future.

!!From [[WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}} The Animated Series]]
* Peter takes the courage to ask Maria out. She accepts.
** A point to Maria for telling off Rock that she's not his girlfriend and he is a loser.
* Anytime Peter outwits Rock.
* The Manjis getting revenge on the villains and saving Judy and Peter.
** This moment deserves a better explanation: You have Ibsen, Van Pelt, and Slick trying to kill Judy and Peter, tearing up the jungle in nightmarish war machines. They finally corner them and it looks like the end for Judy and Peter, when suddenly Tribal Bob (who'd been forced by the trio to lie to Peter about there being no cure to Alan's centipede bite) appears with the other Manjis... and then a flash of lightning lights up the background, showing AN ENTIRE ''ARMY'' OF MANJIS. Who then proceed to charge and take out the villains in a rabid CurbStompBattle, rescuing Peter and Judy.
* A major moment has to be when the gang manages to trick Van Pelt into falling into the bottomless pit! Although considering what happens to Peter later in the episode...
* Alan may had just recovered from that centipede's poison but that didn't stop him from gaining enough strength to get up and tackle the Stalker who was about to kill [[PapaWolf Peter]].
* Judy's science professor know his students well, even figuring out that Judy's lab partners dumped all that project work onto Judy. He lets Judy to get some rest while he gets her partners to ''explain'' the work they did.
* BewareOfTheNiceOnes when Judy scares Miss Desmona to death. Before leaving, she gave one more DeathGlare to ensure Desmona and her dog submit.
* After escaping Van Pelt and losing that thief, the heroes look into the box they stole and found a Juroceros horn. Van Pelt arrives and gloats about hunting the last of its kind and took the horn as a trophy. Before he could shoot them, the Juroceros arrive and Van Pelt has an OhCrap. Cue a massive beatdown that even Alan and the others thinks its too gruesome.
** Also, Alan, Judy and Peter watched in satisfaction at seeing the Juroceros chasing the thief.
* Alan finally solving his clue.

* A small one, but in the prologue, when speaking with Alan, Carl shows his ground-breaking invention: Parrish ''Sneakers''. This is during the 60s, mind you. And Carl managed to invent the first ever pair.

* Judy whacking a giant mosquito with a tennis racket, causing the others to flee.

-->'''Aunt Nora:''' Alright that's it, I am sick and tired of your lies, young lady! You're grounded!
-->'''Judy:''' Fine! There's nowhere to go in this stupid town anyway! And just for your information: that wasn't a lie!

* When Van Pelt fires at Alan, Sarah attempts a HeroicSacrifice by leaping in the way. She had no way of knowing there was going to be a ResetButton, and if there hadn't been, but Alan hadn't rolled the right number to reach Jumanji, her turn would have been next. Even if the game skipped her (and Judy), she had no way of knowing if Alan and Peter still playing would have ended everything and brought them back to life, but she still did it anyway. Aside from showing she loved Alan, that's pretty awesome coming from someone who was so traumatized she had to spend two thousand hours in therapy for 26 years--and it's also her making up for [[MyGreatestFailure having fled and left Alan in the jungle all that time]].
** A moment that is as much "Whoa!" and a bit mind-blowing as well as awesome: when Van Pelt fires, Sarah leaps in the way, and the bullet is halted in mid-air... only to slowly be sucked back into the game. As it goes, Van Pelt's gun and then Van Pelt himself begin to follow it...and you realize that ''[[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong everything the game released is about to be sucked back into the game too]]''. The payoff was about as good as the anticipation.

* Alan bravely wrestling against a crocodile which was about to make a meal of Sarah and the kids when the house gets flooded.