History Film / Jumanji

* ImprovisedWeapon: There are several legitimate weapons seen throughout the film, such as the cavalry saber, Officer Bentley's revolver, Van Pelt's Elephant gun, or his [[CoolGuns hunting rifle]], but more often than not, the players have to use imagination and ingenuity to outwit the hazards of Jumanji. Below are a few examples:

* ArtifactOfDoom: Though it is not specifically malevolent, the Jumanji board game has the power to release appropriately-themed hazards into the real world. Except in the [[WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}} animated series]], where it appears to be deliberately malevolent.

The film was followed up by an [[WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}} animated series]] that aired on Creator/{{UPN}} and Creator/{{BKN}}; [[WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}} Everett Peck]] designed the characters. Clearly not a direct sequel to the movie, the premise actually had that when Judy and Peter played the game they would be given a riddle to solve (sometimes involving AnAesop) and they would be transported into the Jumanji jungle that Alan resided in for years. While the kids would be transported back upon solving their riddle, Alan's riddle has never been solved and he remains trapped. So the kids risk their own lives continually playing the game to help Alan leave Jumanji.

''Jumanji'' is a 1995 American fantasy-adventure-comedy film directed by Joe Johnston and based on Chris Van Allsburg's [[Literature/{{Jumanji}} popular 1981 children's book of the same name]]. Expensive, state-of-the-art computer graphics and animatronics were employed by Creator/IndustrialLightAndMagic and [[Franchise/AlienVsPredator Amalgamated]] [[Film/MortalKombatTheMovie Dynamics]] for the special effects sequences. The film stars Creator/RobinWilliams, then-13-year-old Creator/KirstenDunst, Creator/BonnieHunt, and Creator/BradleyPierce. It was followed by [[WesternAnimation/{{Jumanji}} an animated television series]] that ran from 1996 to 1999 and a SpiritualSuccessor, ''Film/{{Zathura}}'', in 2005.

* NoYou: After Alan calls Sarah "[[BerserkButton crazy]]", their resulting argument that very quickly devolves into this.

* NearVillainVictory: Van Pelt finally seizes the opportunity to kill Alan in the climax as he corners him at gunpoint. However, the game ends just before he can shoot him sending everything back inside it including Van Pelt himself.

* MosquitoMiscreants: Among the unleashed hazards is a swarm of huge mosquitoes that can use their proboscis to pierce the visor of a car.

* {{Jerkass}}: The pelican from the stampede. Walks up and steals the board game first of all, for no conceivable reason. Then when Alan catches up with it and feeds it a fish, it kicks the game into the river.

* LargeHam: Van Pelt in most of his screentime. There's also Alan, particularly right after being released from the game.

* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Alan's father Sam Parrish and Alan himself as an adult.

* HeroicSacrifice: Sarah attempts one to save Alan, holding onto him as he's pulled into the floor-turned-quicksand.

* AnyLastWords: In the climax of the movie, Van Pelt has Alan at gunpoint as one of his dice seems to roll endlessly into the basement. As Van Pelt asks if he has any words to say before he kills him, the die finally stops rolling and Alan's space moves to the finish line, and he makes his last word "Jumanji!", which causes Van Pelt to get sucked back into the game.

The film begins in 1869. Two boys, almost certainly previous players, bury a strange box fearfully, praying that nobody finds it. But 100 years later in [[UsefulNotes/TheSixties 1969]], after fleeing from some bullies, a boy named Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd) discovers the board game at a construction site. Later that day, just as he is about to run away from home to avoid going to boarding school, his friend Sarah Whittle (Laura Bell Bundy) shows up and together they start playing the game. However, the game acts strangely; the pieces move by themselves upon the roll of the dice, and then cryptic words appear in a glass dome in the middle of the board. Upon his first move, [[SealedGoodInACan Alan is sucked into the game]], while Sarah is chased out of the house by a swarm of bats.

-->'''Van Pelt:''' Stop your cringing, woman. I could have shot you at any moment.\\

--->'''Sarah:''' '''''WHOA!!'''''

--->'''Judy:''' "Adventurers beware..." ''[she and Peter look at each other]'' "Do not start unless you intend to finish. The exciting consequences of the game / will vanish only when a player has reached Jumanji and called out its name."

--->'''Alan:''' [[LittleNo run]]...'''''[[SuddenlyShouting IT'S A STAMPEDE!]]'''''

** After Alan finises shaving:
-->'''Judy:''' What happened to you? You shave with a piece of glass? \\

** Sarah seeing Alan getting sucked into a board game shook her psyche to the core. Her getting blown off by others when she tried to explain what happened also lead her into isolating herself. When she encounters the adult Alan when he escapes from the game 26 years later she is understandably very freaked out.

* IWantMyMommy: Judy's last words after being poisoned by the plant.

* CombatTentacles: A giant animated vine crushes and drags away a police car

* LargeHam: Van Pelt in most of his screentime.
** Alan, particularly right after being released from the game.

* LargeHam: Van Pelt in most of his screentime. Alan, particularly right after being released from the game.

--->'''Alan:''' You think that mosquitoes, monkeys, and lions are bad? That is just the beginning. I've seen things you've only seen in your nightmares. Things you can't even imagine. Things you can't even see. There are things that hunt you in the night. Then something screams. Then you hear them eating, and you hope to God you aren't dessert. Afraid? You don't know what afraid is. You will ''not'' last five minutes without me.

* TheAllegedCar: Carl's car gradually accumulates damage throughout the film. In fact, [[spoiler: a carnivorous plant ''eats it'']].

* AnyLastWords: Van Pelt asks this to Alan just as the game ends with Alan responding "Jumanji".

** Subverted in a rather upsetting way by seeing the increasingly more severe amounts of damage dealt to it by the game. By the final turns, the place has been overtaken by vines, creepers, and carnivorous plants; flooded; battered by a stampede; and split in half by an earthquake. [[spoiler:When the ResetButton is pushed, it is of course restored like everything else.]]

* ComingOfAgeStory: Alan learns to face his problems and see his father as a source of inspiration rather than childish [[ItsAllAboutMe egotistical]] fear. It just takes him an [[FridgeLogic inconceivably]] horrible TrainingFromHell to reach it.

* CruelElephant: Rampaging elephants are among the stampeding animals.

* DeathByAdaptation: Peter and Judy's parents, and [[spoiler: Judy herself [[DiedInYourArmsTonight dies in Peter's arms]] after being shot by one of the poisonous plans.]] In both cases, [[spoiler:the ResetButton saves them in the new timeline]].

* {{Determinator}}: Once Aunt Nora catches wind of all the terrible things going on in town, she becomes determined to get home to find Judy and Peter, no matter how many weird things she keeps running into--and she runs into a ''lot''. It's almost a shame she's the film's DesignatedMonkey.
** And of course Van Pelt, by default.
* DidIMentionItsChristmas: The end of the film, for no real reason except to set up the Parrishes to meet Judy and Peter's parents to stop them from dying on a skiing holiday. It also ends what's been a somewhat dark children's film on the happiest of happy moments.
** [[spoiler: At the end, however, it's shown that the game has washed up intact on a faraway shore and might have attracted two new participants with its ominous drumming...]]

* ExtremelyShortTimespan: Most of the film takes place in one day, plus another in 1969 [[spoiler:and another in an alternate 1994]].

** Things start off fairly tame (no pun intended), with only small things such as a cloud of bats, a scourge of mosquitoes, a troop of monkeys, a single lion. Then they escalate to carnivorous plants, [[ImplacableMan a hunter that won't quit]], an entire stampede that destroys the town, a monsoon that floods the house, and an earthquake that splits the house apart. [[FridgeHorror One can only wonder]] what the game would have released next to top itself if Alan hadn't won when he did... Possibly a volcano, considering what happened in the original book. It's lampshaded in Sarah's final rhyme: "You're almost there with much at stake/Now the ground begins to quake..."

* GasCylinderRocket: Two of them propel the rocket-canoe Peter launches at Van Pelt.

* MemoryWipeExploitation: Ater Alan and Sarah finish the titular board game and everything returns to normal, Sarah kisses Alan, saying that she wants to do it before they forget everything that happened when they played the game.

* NoFairCheating: Jumanji really, ''really'' doesn't like it when people cheat. It turns Peter into a ''monkey'' for even trying to fudge a die roll.
* NoJustNoReaction: PlayedForLaughs. Sarah and Alan also give one at the end, [[spoiler: when the Shepard parents are telling them about the skiing trip they're planning, the one that Alan and Sarah now know would kill them and leave Judy and Peter orphaned]].
* NoOntologicalInertia: [[spoiler: The entire movie after the first twenty minutes or so ultimately becomes undone precisely because the game's effects all have no such inertia, meaning that the 25-odd years of changes to the town caused by Alan Parrish's disappearance are undone and Alan is returned to the moment he was initially sucked in.]]
* NoOSHACompliance:
** When first hearing the drums, Alan decides to go check in a construction site. No worker nor watchman notices him. Quite apart from finding some horror board game, a child wandering with no protection in the middle of a construction site is ''very'' dangerous. None of them even looks at him. After he found the game, a worker finally stops and stares at him silently, letting him leave on his own instead of escorting him out, as if he still doesn't realize that the kid could get someone or himself injured.
** The same goes for young Alan, strolling peacefully in the middle of a shoe factory a few minutes earlier, but it's implied he often did so, and at least, his father reacts properly.
* NoYou: After Alan calls Sarah "[[BerserkButton crazy]]", their resulting argument that very quickly devolves into this.

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*** The walls are almost completely covered with vines by that point, so it’s possible the vines also “patched” the hole as they grew.

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* QuicksandSucks: "Beware the ground on which you stand, the floor is quicker than the sand!" And it works in weird ways, given Alan's legs are seen dangling from the ceiling in the floor below.

* RhinoRampage: Rhinos are the first of the stampeding animals to be unleashed from the game.

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* TitleDrop: The winner is the first player to reach Jumanji (the center of the board, where the rhymes appear--in the {{Defictionalization}} board game as well as the original book it is a "golden city") and call out its name.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: What happened to Aunt Nora? We can theorize that she's okay after everything was reversed, but it would be nice to know what her status is in the alternate continuity. Presumably, we can infer that she's fine and a lot less stressed now she doesn't have to deal with the tragic death of her brother and sister-in-law, having to take their children under her care and dealing with the aftermath of whenever they decide to act out.[[note]]Surprisingly, this is finally answered by Film/JumanjiTheNextLevel, where it's revealed that Nora became a successful restaurant owner and manager.[[/note]]

** It's pretty much established that the shoe factory is the town's main anchor. It's very possible the homeless man's fortunes are greatly improved in the new timeline.

** Van Pelt is on the game's cover.

** One of Julie's lies is to claim that she and Peter's parents were rich and distant from them, until they learned upon their death that they loved them. This reflects Alan's own arc, where he comes to realize his dad actually loved him despite his distant attitude.

* FortuneTeller: It's revealed Sarah dabbled in this as an adult, calling herself "Madame Serena." Judging by [[{{Fainting}} her]] [[FreakOut reaction]] when her long-lost friend turned up on her doorstep, she wasn't a very good one.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Van Pelt is on the game's cover.

** [[spoiler: The movie begins with some kids in the 1890's burying the game, hoping it will never be found again. Once Alan and Sarah are returned to 1969, they dump it in a river. TheStinger shows it [[HereWeGoAgain washing up on a beach]]]].

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: Judy and Sarah, despite their age difference. Sarah is always shown wearing flowery skirts and dresses, while Judy wears plaid and overalls. When Sarah was Judy's age she was also... a little more fragile. For example, when Sarah was swarmed by bats, she screamed and ran away. When Judy is attacked by a swarm of giant deadly mosquitoes, she calmly grabs a tennis racket and starts whacking at them. However, when Sarah was Judy's age, she ''took on Alan's bullies'' and ''got his bike back from them''.