History Film / JumanjiTheNextLevel

* CompanyCrossReferences: As usual for a Sony film, it also crosses into ProductPlacement. Spencer's bedroom still has a poster for a UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 game [[spoiler:(and he's playing the [=PS4=] with his grandpa at the end of the movie)]], the Jumanji console's hooked up to a large Sony Trinitron CRT from the 2000s, and the boombox pulled out towards the end of the film by Mouse is an old 80s Sony boombox.

* PiranhaProblem: Fridge thinks that the water surrounding the Jumanji Berry Tree is infested with vicious man-eating piranhas, but no piranha on sight.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The team (sans Martha and Alex) leaps into a mountain rapids that flows with the mysterious water to change back into their original avatars. They succeed, and attempt to do a TeamPowerWalk out of the waters... only to stop midway and shiver badly from how cold it actually is.
** Spencer and Martha had a great time being a couple for their senior year of high school, but grew apart when they went to college, and while Spencer struggled being on his own he only saw Martha's social media light up every day, which lead to him suggesting they take a break and only perpetuated his own feelings of inadequacy. The BeYourself moral they learned in the previous film is not a universal cure for all your insecurities.
** As any person with an old relative that needs help with modern technology will testify, old people like Eddie nor Milo have very little idea how video games should even remotely work or be played and are far less accepting of the concept of being trapped in one than a bunch of teens.
** Milo and Eddie's feud is revealed to be this, along with BothSidesHaveAPoint. Eddie is bitter that Milo sold the restaurant they ran together, without considering what he wanted because he liked working at all hours of the day. He's got a point that he wanted to keep going. Milo counters that [[spoiler:he was getting old and worried that he wouldn't have any time to spend with his wife while standing and cooking 24 hours a day]]. Eddie on hearing this, is forced to concede that Milo had legitimate reasons for selling the business.

* LighterAndSofter: Zigzagged compared to ''Welcome to the Jungle''. The addition of Eddie and Milo means the movie has a much heavier comedic slant, the returning cast has already been through Jumanji once and are more annoyed than scared this time, and character deaths are usually PlayedForLaughs instead of PlayedForDrama (with spare lives being expended within ''seconds''). On the other hand, the adventure is still very dangerous (probably moreso than the first), the group is still at risk of getting KilledOffForReal if they lose all their lives, and Jurgen the Brutal is a far more intimidating villain than Van Pelt was.

** The team (sans Martha and Alex) leaps into a mountain rapids that flows with the mysterious water to change back into their original avatars. They succeed, and attempt to do a PowerWalk out of the waters... only to stop midway and shiver badly from how cold it actually is.

''Jumanji: The Next Level'' is a sequel to the 2017 film ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'', itself a sequel to the 1995 film ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' (and its SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/{{Zathura}}''). Directed by Jake Kasdan, it sees the return of Creator/DwayneJohnson, Creator/KevinHart, Creator/JackBlack, Creator/KarenGillan and Music/NickJonas, who are joined this time by Creator/DannyDeVito, Creator/DannyGlover, Creator/{{Awkwafina}} and Creator/RoryMcCann.

''Jumanji: The Next Level'' is a sequel to the 2017 film ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'', itself a sequel to the 1995 film ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' (and its SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/{{Zathura}}''). Directed by Jake Kasdan, it sees the return of Wrestling/DwayneJohnson, Creator/KevinHart, Creator/JackBlack, Creator/KarenGillan and Music/NickJonas, who are joined this time by Creator/DannyDeVito, Creator/DannyGlover, Creator/{{Awkwafina}} and Creator/RoryMcCann.

''Jumanji: The Next Level'' is a sequel to the 2017 film ''Film/JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle'', itself a sequel to the 1995 film ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' (and its SpiritualSuccessor ''Film/{{Zathura}}''). Directed by Jake Kasdan, it sees the return of Wrestling/DwayneJohnson, Creator/KevinHart, Creator/JackBlack, Creator/KarenGillan and Music/NickJonas, who are joined this time by Creator/DannyDevito, Creator/DannyGlover, Creator/{{Awkwafina}} and Creator/RoryMcCann.

** The same sequence for entering Jumanji was reused (running through a forest before falling a great height into the jungle), only this time it is from the perspective of Martha/Ruby.
** Like in ''Welcome to the Jungle'', Shelly Oberon is killed near the same spot, in the same way (getting eaten on the head), though both the animal involved and who's controlling Shelly are different.

* ClosestThingWeGot: After arriving in Jumanji, Martha initially has to basically act as the group's leader as Bethany and Alex were absent, Fridge and Spencer were stuck in new avatars they weren't well-suited for, and Eddie and Milo didn't entirely understand the situation.

* GenderBender: As in the previous film; [[spoiler:Spencer is given a new avatar in the form of a female thief, Ming, and Bethany later returns to her original avatar of Professor Shelly Oberon. Bethany herself first enters the game as a male horse]]. [[spoiler:Fridge also gets a turn at this when he and Martha briefly swap avatars, turning him into Ruby Roundhouse, complete with the shameless admission that [[ManIFeelLikeAWoman touching his boobs was the first thing he did]] upon realizing who he was. Eddie ends up in the body of Ming after Spencer, Fridge and Bethany switch back to their old avatars.]]

-->'''Shelly/Fridge''': THIS CAN'T BE HAPPENING!

---> '''Eddie:''' My hips feel good now.\\
'''Milo:''' (''pulling up his pants'') Look at my thighs!

-->'''Fridge''': And on top of that... boobs!\\
'''Martha''': Touch my boobs and I ''will'' murder you!\\
'''Fridge''': Too late! It was literally the first thing I did!

** Eddie catches a petty thief who stole the key to Jurgen's chest containing the Falcon Jewel and hands her over to him, just as Martha and Fridge realize [[spoiler: said thief was actually Spencer in a new avatar. He shortly loses his first life to execution via a flying axe to the head.]]

** An escort for them later on describes the younger brother Mouse is standing-in for as a eunuch. Fridge took heavy offense to it, but Bethany/Shelly forces him to play along, leading to an awkward conversation about Fridge/Mouse's missing balls.
** When meeting with Jurgen to exchange for the Falcon Jewel, Jurgen demands the Brothers to bring out their younger sister, with whom he is to wed as part of the deal. Bethany and Fridge panic upon realizing they do not have a sister stand-in, until [[BigDamnHeroes Martha/Ruby bursts in announcing herself as the sister]]. Jurgen accepts, and Martha was about to claim back the jewel... [[OhCrap until a letter arrived from the actual Brothers Kababik announcing the delay to their arrival]], immediately outing the group as imposters.

* UnpredictableResults: While malicious, the rules of Jumanji seemed to be rather clear in previous films and the characters had to work with them. The haphazard repair to the console seemed to throw all that out of alignment, particularly in that they weren't able to choose their characters before entering, and even the experienced characters are questioning all the changes and noticing GoodBadBugs along the way.

* WrongGenreSavvy: Shelly and Ruby immediately suspect that the green, electrically-charged water surrounding the Jumanji Fruit contains some horrible peril. Turns out, it's just a bug of the game that allows them to swap avatars.
* YouKilledMyFather: Played with in that while Jurgen did do this to Bravestone's parents, neither Eddie nor Spencer really care due to them just being players controlling the avatar.

** Eddie!Bravestone starts off confused about the context of the game and calls it ''[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Ju-man-ji]]''. [[spoiler: When Eddie!Ming sets the clear condition for the game and realizes he has to shout its name,]]

** In the previous film, Fridge!Mouse had the highest amount of Weaknesses, at three Weaknesses in total[[note]]Cake, Speed and Strength[[/note]]. This time, while Milo!Mouse did not gain any additional Weaknesses, Fridge!Shelly gains an additional ''three Weaknesses''[[note]]Heat, Sun and Sand[[/note]] to Shelly's original Weakness of Endurance, making his a total of ''four'' Weaknesses and, once again, the highest amount in the group.

** Franklin "Mouse" Finbar is still weak to ''cake''. It gets to the point that Fridge!Mouse panics and ''immediately wrecks an entire cake offered to him'', while in real-life Fridge is shown to have grown averse to eating cake.

* FreezeFrameBonus: When Jurgen the Brutal beheaded [[spoiler:Spencer!Ming]], you can briefly see [[spoiler:Ming's]] head flung off of her body before disintegrating.

* InformedFlaw: Shelly Oberon's weaknesses now include Sun, Heat, and Sand -- while the team is in the middle of a desert. However, Fridge!Shelly has no problem functioning during this leg of the adventure and gets out of the level without difficulty. Likewise, Ming's weakness to pollen never comes into play.

** [[spoiler: Despite attracting the attention of a mob boss named Switchblade, who is Bravestone's only new weakness, Eddie!Bravestone gets overconfident and refuses to budge when the team urges him to run, costing all of them one life each when Switchblade fires his bazooka at them.]]

* RocksFallEveryoneDies: After Eddie as Bravestone causes a ruckus in the Oasis, the gang manages to escape with the Camels they needed to travel to their next destination. Of course, given that Eddie!Bravestone managed to rile up his ArchEnemy and convenient weakness Switchblade, the latter launches a rocket blindly into the sky hoping to hit them. Said rocket manages to pull off a TotalPartyKill, costing everyone a spare life.

* WhamShot: During the climatic battle with Jurgen the Brutal, Bravestone hits him in the chest, [[spoiler:causing a stat chart to pop up and revealing he's another avatar. Unfortunately, the film doesn't go any further into this revealtion]].

* UncomfortableElevatorMoment: As Fridge and Bethany go up pretending to be the Brothers Kababik, the InfoDump on them gets increasingly unsettling and hard to keep in-character - particularly Fridge supposedly being an eunuch.

* TalkingIsAFreeAction: Averted hard (and complained about hard) with Milo's zoological expositions.

* ImprobableAimingSkills: At one point, a thug miles away manages to inflict a total party kill with a rocket launcher that seems to auto-lock onto them. Might be justified, since [[spoiler:said thug was established earlier as Bravestone's sole weakness.]]

* EunuchsAreEvil: Bethany and Fridge attempted to infiltrate Jurgen the Brutal's fortress by impersonating his allies, the Brothers Kababik. Unbeknownst to them, one of the brothers (the one that Fridge impersonated) is an eunuch. This led to an awkward and hilarious conversation where a mook mentioned Fridge's supposed castration.

* BagOfHolding: Played UpToEleven with [[HumanPackMule Mouse]]. His bag now holds an entire array of miscellaneous items that come useful right at the moments the team needed them, from a smaller bag containing [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin ice-climbing equipment]] to ''an entire boombox'' to trigger Ruby's DanceBattler skill.