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Samuel Alan "Sam" Parrish was the father of Alan Parrish, husband to Carol, a descendant of General Angus Parrish and CEO of Parrish Shoes. He appears in the 1995 film, played by Jonathan Hyde, who also played Van Pelt as a dual performance. Sam is unseen in the animated series, but he is mentioned.

Personality [ ]

Although Sam was a strict and firm man, due to his living class and years at Cliffside's school, he was nevertheless a wise father to Alan, loving him more than anyone else. Yet their relationship was strained because of Alan's inability to stand up to face his fears and his lack of interest in continuing family tradition by entering Cliffside, resulting in a falling out between them on the night Alan went missing.

In the alternate timeline, it was shown that Sam's love for his son was so great that he was willing to abandon everything in hopes of finding him. Alan's reaction to this news showed that he had no idea Sam loved him so much. After returning to 1969, when Alan reconciled with him, Sam took on a noticeably softer tone than he previously had in the movie and appeared to enjoy the idea of talking with Alan "father to son" rather than "man to man."

Sam enjoyed smoking a pipe, especially at work in the factory.

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Early life [ ].

Sam at work.

Samuel Parrish was born in June 18, 1921, and followed in his family traditions by attending the Cliffside School for boys, feeling that he owed who he was to his years of higher education. As he grew up he inherited finest house in New England, the Parrish Mansion, and took up the Parrish traditional role of CEO at Parrish Shoes, as the fourth generation of Parrish produced quality footwear. Sam eventually met and married Carol and they had one son named Alan. While also living in the finest house in the neighborhood with his family, Sam was also frequently at work managing the Parrish Shoes Factory in Brantford, making the best shoes in New England. Following a run-in with Billy's gang, Sam sent Alan out of the factory before firing Carl Bentley for his prototype shoe damaging the factory machine (unaware it was actually that Alan placed the shoe on the conveyor). That night, Sam attended a party with Carol celebrating Brantford's growing economy as the guest of honor, leaving Alan at home, due to a falling out between them in regards to enrolling him for Cliffside, whether he like it or not.

"JUMANJI" timeline [ ]

Due to Alan's imprisonment within "JUMANJI" , Sam and Carol came home to find their only son missing, thinking that he had ran away from home as a result of their heated arguing. Both parents were clearly devastated at Alan's unexplained disappearance, spending much of their time and money searching for him without success and Sam even ended up losing his faith by having abandoned Parrish Shoes resulting in Brantford's economy collapsing. Sam eventually died and was buried with Carol a few years before Alan returned to the real world thanks to Judy Shepherd and Peter Shepherd playing "JUMANJI" .

Due to the uncertainty of Alan's fate, unpleasant stories began to spread that the boy was murdered by his own parents and his remains hidden in the mansion, especially by Sam. One factor to consider was that the Parrish family were held in high regard in Brantford and got special treatment from the police, otherwise, the entire Mansion would have been torn down in hopes of finding any remains of a body. Even the only witness Sarah Whittle accepted this to be Alan's fate, but he refused to believe the ridiculous stories citing Sam was never the kind of man to do that.

Restored timeline [ ]

Alan and Sam reconcile after he won.

When Alan and Sarah were transported back to 1969, the events created from their gameplay of "JUMANJI" were undone and the immediately picked up where they left off by Sam returning to the mansion to pick up his forgotten speech notes. Overcome with joy by winning "JUMANJI" , Sam was alarmed that Alan immediately reconciled with him (unaware of the previous dramatic alternative lifestyle), but was nevertheless happy that their relationship had been healed and promised they would discuss their situation tomorrow. Before Sam left, Alan told him that he put the shoe on the conveyor belt, not Carl Bentley. Sam reacted calmly and said that he’s glad he took responsibility, then leaves.

Sam is unseen in the Jumanji animated series, but he is referred to. When Alan first arrived in "JUMANJI" 23 years before Judy and Peter found the game, Alan referred to his dad owing the (now closed) Parrish Shoe Company and later paid Trader Slick a large sum of dollars for a boat, which he knew he would have to explain to his dad somehow. He also refers to his dad as taking part in duck hunting season, referencing the Sam Parrish and Van Pelt dual role speculation.

Van Pelt's role in the 1995 film is believed to serve as an allegory for Sam Parrish's lesson about standing to face fears.

• The most obvious clue being the fact that both Van Pelt and Sam Parrish are played by Jonathan Hyde in the film.
• The other clues being when the hunter tells Sarah that he did not shoot her because he is hunting down Alan because Alan released him from the game (as part of the rules).
• It can also be noted that the clue that released the hunter related to the victim feeling like a child; part of the reason why Van Pelt is hunting him down because Alan is not man enough to face him, since Alan is always running away from him, akin to Sam Parrish inciting his son to face his fears.
• At the climax, Alan refuses to run off this time, admitting that even though he's still scared, he no longer finds in his heart to run away from what's he afraid of and instead face it to get it over with. Amazed, Van Pelt acknowledges Alan of finally acting like a real man, followed by Alan returning to 1969 and reconciling with his father to have a man to man talk later.
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List of Jumanji characters, including pictures when available. These characters from Jumanji are ordered by their significance to the film, so main characters are featured at the top while minor characters and cameos are further down on the list. Jumanji had a lot of memorable characters, which is part of the reason why the movie is so beloved by people around the world. The names of the actors and actresses who played each character are included next to the character's names, so use this list to discover who played your favorite characters.

List items include Peter Shepherd, Sarah Whittle and many more.

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Film Review: ‘Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle’

Four teenagers turn into Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, and Karen Gillan in a 'Jumanji' sequel that strands them in a jungle of no fun.

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When “ Jumanji ” came out, in 1995, one’s first impulse was to consign it to the increasingly overstuffed file marked “Junky Cheeseball Robin Williams Movies.” The film’s one true distinction was its jungle beasts. The lions and monkeys and elephants and rhinos and zebras, rampaging through a kitchen, were brought to life through the then-novel miracle of digital imagery; this was two years after “Jurassic Park,” but the technology still felt bold. As an adventure, “Jumanji” was deluxe magical trash, but its creatures, so fearsomely alive, seemed to be part of some brave new menagerie.

“ Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle ” is just trash, with nothing magical about it. A quartet of high-school kids gets sucked into a video-game-console update of the Jumanji board game, landing in the most generic of jungles — and that’s where they stay, except for one detour into the most generic of fake Middle Eastern bazaars. Whatever the rules of this particular game, they remain mostly unexplained and largely beside the point. It’s like watching the lamest Indiana Jones sequel ever imagined, minus Indiana Jones.

In his place, our four heroes morph into video-game avatars played by a tossed salad of movie stars, who don’t generate adventure-comedy chemistry so much as they do loudly clashing styles of showboating. The film’s notion of wit is to have Spencer (Alex Wolff), a stringbean gamer, metamorphose into an explorer-archaeologist played by Dwayne Johnson , who flinches and says “Oy vey!” like the nerd he still is inside. If Johnson, and the film’s script, had truly run with this idea, it might have been funny, but Johnson, for the most part, is just Johnson: too committed to his image to tweak it much.

One of the other kids is a hulking jock nicknamed “The Refrigerator” (Ser’Darius Blain), and the wears-out-its-welcome-in-10-seconds joke is that he gets turned into a zoologist played by Kevin Hart , thereby losing several feet of height. The other two high schoolers are female, so it may seem odd that one of them, Bethany (Madison Iseman), turns into a cryptographer played by Jack Black , but once you’ve seen Black, in tweedy hunter’s garb and big round spectacles, do his mincing impersonation of a high-school trollop (very Meanest Girl of 2003 ), it no longer seems odd, just vaguely embarrassing. The other girl, Martha (Morgan Turner), becomes Ruby Roundhouse, a commando in a halter top played by the charming Karen Gillan, who winds up playing straight woman to the three walking icons of paycheck shtick.

In “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle,” each of the characters has a trio of bars tattooed on his or her wrist, which means that in the game universe of Jumanji they all get three lives. Jack Black is eaten, in one very quick bite, by a gnashing hippo, and moments later — voilà! — he pops down from the sky. Johnson gets tossed off a cliff, then pops down as well. Hart eats pound cake and explodes (for some reason), and so on. Gillan, in the meantime, does some fight-dancing to Big Mountain’s reggae version of “Baby, I Love Your Way.” Did I mention that the four are trying to wrest a giant glowing emerald from the movie’s bad guy — Bobby Cannavale, with no role to play — so that they can restore it to the forehead of the looming mountain sculpted into a jaguar?

Excitement! Suspense! Childlike innocence! Ingeniously staged action set pieces! These are a few of the things you will not find, anywhere, in “Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle.” The one performer in the film who establishes his own relaxed rhythm, and stays in it, is Nick Jonas, proving once again that he’s got quick-draw acting chops. The movie has snakes and a crocodile pit and a scorpion slithering out of Bobby Cannavale’s mouth. It’s supposed to be a video-ized board game come to life, but really, it’s just a bored game.

Reviewed at AMC Lincoln Square, New York, Dec. 6, 2017. MPAA Rating: PG. Running time: 119 MIN.

• Production: A Sony Pictures Entertainment release of a Columbia Pictures, Matt Tolmach Productions, Radar Pictures, Seven Bucks Productions prod. Producers: Ted Field, Matt Tolmach, William Tietler, Mike Weber. Executive producers: Dany Garcia, David B. Householter, Jake Kasdan.
• Crew: Director: Jake Kasdan. Screenplay: Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Jeff Pinkner, Scott Rosenberg. Camera (color, widescreen): Gyula Pados. Editors: Steve Edwards, Mark Helfrich.
• With: Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan, Bobby Cannavale, Nick Jonas, Alex Wolff, Madison Iseman, Ser’Darius Blain, Morgan Turner.

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Van Pelt is the secondary antagonist of the Jumanji franchise, serving as the main antagonist of the 1995 film Jumanji based on the 1981 fantasy children's picture book by Chris Van Allsburg. He also appears in the animated series based on the film.

He is a sadistic, cunning, murderous, destructive, ruthless and traitorous hunter who resides within the cursed board game Jumanji . As a game hunter, he wears a hunter's uniform with a cape and pith helmet. He is also one of the game's main dangers as a portrait of his face is carved on the top left corner of one of the lids of the game box. This incarnation of Van Pelt serves as the basis of his appearance in the animated series. He is also Alan Parish's arch-nemesis.

In the film, he was portrayed by Jonathan Hyde , who also played Alan's father Sam Parrish in the same film and Stricklander in Tales of Arcadia . In the animated series, he was voiced by Sherman Howard , who also played Derek Powers in Batman Beyond , Chief McBrusque in An American Tail: The Treasure of Manhattan Island , and Metal Kor in Jak II .

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1995 film [ ].

Van Pelt is first introduced after one of Alan's turns on Jumanji , which releases the hunter, who immediately begins chasing him. He tells Sarah that he did not shoot her, because Alan was the one who rolled the dice instead of her, implying he is hunting down Alan because Alan released him from the game (as part of the rules, as everything released from the game is apparently "ordered" by the game itself to attack whomever rolled the dice at the time of its/their release). After managing to evade him, Alan explains that Van Pelt has been trying to kill him since they first met within the game's world, seemingly finding Alan's very existence to be offensive.

After he runs out of bullets, he switches his weapon at a gun shop with a sniper and silencer due to his previous weapon's bullets being outdated. He tries to shoot Alan from a distance when he is taken in by a police officer, his childhood friend from his father's shoe factory, Carl Bentley, and then chases after Sarah, Judy, and Peter (who is transformed into a monkey while attempting to cheat) to steal the game so Alan will come to him for it (and for them), but his plan is once again foiled by Peter and later Alan. Eventually, when Alan and his allies are on the verge of finishing the game, Van Pelt arrives at his damaged house and holds both him and Sarah at gunpoint before he could roll the dice.

When Van Pelt tells him to drop the dice, he orders Alan to start running again so that he can chase him. However, Alan refuses to run off this time, admitting that even though he is still scared, he no longer finds it in his heart to run away from what he's afraid of and instead face it to suppress his fears like his father told him. Impressed, Van Pelt acknowledges Alan of acting like a real man, and asks for any last words before he finishes him off.

Before he could pull the trigger, it was then the dice gave in the right number that allows Alan to win the game, and once Alan says "Jumanji", all of the animals and dangers of the game are sucked back into it by powerful tornado-force winds, including Van Pelt himself, much to his dismay. This also sends Alan and Sarah back to their past with their memories of the future intact before they get rid of the game and eventually begin a romantic relationship, thus altering and creating a newer and better future, while Van Pelt remains sealed inside Jumanji, which is disposed of via throwing it into a river by Alan and Sarah in hopes of never being found again.

TV series [ ]

Van Pelt returns as the main antagonist in the animated series based on the film.

He is revealed to be a part of the game, and cannot die under normal circumstances. When he actually dies in an episode after being knocked into a bottomless pit, Peter starts to become him little by little, but is saved by Alan and Judy rescuing the original Van Pelt by tossing down his rope.

His temporary death was in special circumstances due to the magic nature of the pit and in general the animated version of Van Pelt is stated to be invulnerable to harm. Indeed he is shown suffering fatal injuries such as being impaled and surviving unharmed. His later appearances are usually about hunting the heroes and failing constantly.

Unlike his movie version, who is extremely trustworthy and honorable, despite his ruthlessness, this version of the character is noticeably more certifiable, deranged, and cruel. Van Pelt has no compunction murdering children, an act his rival, Ludwig Von Richtor calls him out for and keeps the heads of humans mounted on his wall. Pelt mentions he once had a maid who eventually shot.

Van Pelt displays the ability to control certain animals in the series; summoning demonic hounds when he blows his horn, being served by a monkey butler in his lodge, using tracking weasels and summoning an elephant to use as a steed.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle [ ]

Personality [ ].

In the 1995 film and the animated series, Van Pelt is a truly merciless, traitorous, destructive, sadistic, bloodthirsty, ruthless, uncaring and cruel poacher who tries at all costs to hunt his prey to the very end. He is very murderous, sanguinary, treacherous, and manipulative, so he loves to hunt men and animals to display them on his wall. Van Pelt has a deep hatred for cowards and condemns people for displaying any acts of. While Van Pelt’s constant attempts of hunting Alan are part of the games rules, Van Pelt takes his objective of hunting Alan more personal due to Alan’s own coward like nature and has been hunting Alan since he was a child, while in the world of Jumanji.

Despite this, he seems to have something of a more noble side, as when Sarah tries to recover the game at the store, which Van Pelt was using as a bait to lure Alan, he surprises her and tells her to stop cringing, because he could have shot her at any moment. Sarah asks him why, and he says Alan rolled the dice, implying he's only after Alan because he released him from the game. Prior to that, Van Pelt snatches the game away from Sarah, Judy and Peter and seemingly tries to work out a deal with them but is interrupted by an incoming animal stampede. In his final moments with Alan, Van Pelt commends Alan for finally standing up for himself and even offers him a chance to speak his last words before shooting him.

In the series, as he is part of the game and, unlike the movie, never leaves the jungle, his moral and role are even more twisted, therefore his more positive traits are nonexistent and he is perfectly willing to hunt other humans; even keeping the heads of children among his hunting trophies. This personality is shared by his Welcome to the Jungle counterpart, although his professional background and objective differ; as an explorer, his goal is to possess the Jaguar's Eye at any cost.

As he is a vital part of the game's mechanic in the animated series, if he somehow dies (he can, indeed, die in the animated series, although it is very difficult to do so), the victor will immediately take his role (which almost happened to Peter). Also, later in the series, and not much unlike the movie, he begins to learn the game's mechanics. Although, in this case, since he never left the jungle, he understands it a little more, knowing exactly how to act according to the rules and even use it to his advantage. His most commonly used word is "Blast!", particularly when something goes wrong.

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• Sarah Whittle
• Peter Shepherd
• Judith "Judy" Shepherd
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• Jonathan Hyde, the actor who played Van Pelt in the first film, also portrayed Sam Parrish, the father of the film's protagonist Alan Parrish. This is a method to hint that Van Pelt represents how Alan sees his father after their heated argument in 1969 when Alan angrily refuses to go to the Cliffside School of Boys, hence why Van Pelt congratulates Alan for acting like a man once he realizes what lesson his father was trying to teach him. Also, recapping the clue that describes him ("A hunter from the darkest wild makes you feel just like a child"), it can be inferred that he has no actual physical form unless summoned by a player, in which case, he would take the form of whatever person said player fears the most (in Alan's case, his own father).
• In the original book, Van Pelt was not a villain at all. Instead, he was just a lost jungle guide whose only remotely villainous action was deliberately ignoring Judy when she tried to ask for his help.
• Van Pelt can be easily described as superhuman in reality as his confrontation in the looted supermarket would have realistically ended with his death when a whole shelf full of paint cans fell on him. Coupled with the age that he seems to be, Van Pelt would have been definitely killed but he somehow survives the ordeal, which can be a possible suggestion that he might be a supernatural being who can survive lethal situations due Jumanji's powers. Van Pelt is more or less confirmed to be supernatural by existing in the 19th century, and taking on the shape of Private Dewell, indicating that he always assumes the shape of someone familiar with playing the game. The existence of a separate "modernized" character, Russel Van Pelt , also confirms the supernatural nature of Van Pelt, as he himself is "modernized" whenever the Jumanji game is "modernized".
• Van Pelt's hunting rifle is a modified Winchester M1901 lever-action shotgun, modified with an amended stock (complete with a custom checkered pattern and "cheek cushion"), a false box magazine, a rear sight, a large tube placed over the barrel with a foresight and muzzle "bell" so as to make it appear to be an elephant gun. When it runs out of ammunition, which is unable to be replenished since it was discontinued in 1903, he ends up replacing it with a Daewoo USAS-12 CQ outfitted with an unusually large scope, a drum magazine, and a suppressor to make it look like a sniper rifle, after bribing the gun shop owner into bypassing the mandatory waiting period.
• In the animated series, Tim Curry auditioned for Van Pelt before being cast as Trader Slick .
• Although Van Pelt directly antagonizes Alan, it should be noted that the real villain is the game itself, as it is directly responsible for bringing him and all its other dangers into the real world.

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Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black go wild in first Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle trailer

EW breaks down the sequel's first trailer with Black and director Jake Kasdan

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Johnson, Gillan, Hart, and Black? It’s official: Jumanji’s back.

Sony has shared the first trailer for Jake Kasdan’s Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle , the follow-up to the beloved 1995 Robin Williams movie . More than two decades after Williams’ character Alan Parrish emerged from the jungle in the original film, a new group of kids are stumbling upon the supernatural game, only to get sucked into a familiar world of tropical danger.

But as the trailer reveals, there’s a twist: Instead of centering on the iconic board game, Welcome to the Jungle follows four teenagers in Breakfast Club- style detention — Spencer (Alex Wolff), Fridge (Ser’Darius Blain), Bethany (Madison Iseman), and Martha (Morgan Turner) — as they find an old video game in a school storage room. When they choose their in-game avatars and press start, they find themselves transported into the savage world of Jumanji, trapped in the bodies of the characters they chose.

“We always talk about [ Welcome to the Jungle ] as another Jumanji adventure,” producer Matt Tolmach tells EW. “It is very much the spirit of Jumanji , but with a different group of people and sort of a different idea. But the idea of the game that comes to life is the DNA there.”

The body-swapping concept is a key part of the film and a major departure from the original, as the four teenagers find themselves inhabiting the bodies of their avatars in the game. The nerdy Spencer is now Dwayne Johnson’s Dr. Smolder Bravestone, while football player Fridge now shares the body of the brilliant but petite Franklin “Moose” Finbar, played by Kevin Hart. Martha, a bookish overachiever, inhabits the body of the Lara Croft-like badass Ruby Roundhouse, and the popular Bethany is now Jack Black’s Professor Shelly Oberon.

“It allows this level of candor and examination because the characters are teenagers who are trying to figure out their own person, and in these new people, it complicates that mess,” Kasdan says. “But it also gives them the opportunity to take something from the experience.”

But just as the body-swapping presents a challenge to the characters, it presents a challenge to the actors, too: Johnson plays against type as a sensitive, video-game-loving high schooler, while Black spends the entire film playing a teenage girl.

“There wasn’t exactly an Actors Studio Workshop approach to this for me,” Black says, laughing. “I knew what I thought was funny about it, and I knew what I could do. I guess I subconsciously used all of my memories from high school when I was there — all of my research of high school girls from the 1980s.”

The trailer also gives a brief glimpse of Nick Jonas as Jefferson “Seaplane” McDonough, a cryptic figure who the heroes encounter in the game.

“He’s a mysterious stranger that they meet in the midst of their adventure,” Kasdan explains. “At first, they’re not sure what to make of him, but he becomes a part of their effort to get out.”

The video game setting also allows the story to poke fun at some of the familiar aspects of gaming — like the female character who wears shorts and a tank top to explore the jungle. Gillan’s costume earned criticism when first look photos were released a few months ago, and at the time, Gillan tweeted, “Yes I’m wearing child sized clothes and YES there is a reason! The pay off is worth it, I promise!”

“[The character is] very knowing about what’s happening and calls it out, like, ‘What is it about these games? Why do people look like this and dress like this?’” Tolmach says. “There are so many people who know this world of video games, and it’s really great to be able to have fun with some of the tropes.”

The original Jumanji mostly revolved around the idea of this dangerous, tropical world bleeding into the real world, but Welcome to the Jungle drops its players right into the game’s setting, where Alan Parrish found himself trapped all those years ago. (Black teases that the four main characters will encounter evidence of Alan’s stay in the jungle.) The film’s jungle backdrop meant that the cast and crew spent months dodging mosquitos and filming in some of the most remote areas of Hawaii.

“Nick really embraced the jungle,” Black says. “Like, Nick Jonas would disappear for a few days and just be on a real physical adventure. He’d come back with bumps and scrapes and bruises and a big smile on his face because he’d traversed some impossible mountain scape and came down the other side of the mountain on like a zipline.”

But while Jonas immediately took to the tropics, Black says some of his other costars were a little more wary.

“Kevin has a thing about insects, and he was in a little bit of a hell,” he adds, laughing. “But he braved the storm, and it was very funny whenever he expressed his insectophobia to all of us. He also wore the most powerful DEET known to man. It was such a powerful repellant that I think it burned through a couple layers of skin.”

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle will open Dec. 20.

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• December 20, 2017
• Dwayne Johnson as Spencer; Kevin Hart as Fridge; Jack Black as Bethany; Karen Gillan as Martha; Nick Jonas as Alex; Marc Evan Jackson as Principal Bentley; Bobby Cannavale as John Hardin Van Pelt

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• March 20, 2018
• Jake Kasdan

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Movie Review

When Spencer Gilpin is called into the principal’s office, he has a pretty good idea why: It’s because he helped a good friend.

OK, that sounds altruistic and bighearted. The truth is, he screwed up. He wrote a paper (or two, or three) for a guy who used to be his good friend back when they were both skinny nobodies living down the street from each other. Since then, Anthony “Fridge” Johnson has grown into a football hero worthy of his nickname and Spencer has, well, pretty much stayed the same stringy nobody that he always was. They rarely even speak anymore—except when Fridge needs a bit of scholastic help.

On this particular day, though, Spencer and his frowning former friend aren’t the only ones heading into the detention soup. There’s also a popular, pretty and completely narcissistic girl named Bethany awaiting the punishment axe. She was sent to the principal for putting selfies and in-class phone conversations above her teacher’s more studious recommendations. And sitting next to her is a too-smart-for-gym-class gal named Martha. She’s a bright individual who, by the way, Spencer has had a slight crush on for a while now.

After getting a little tongue lashing, they’re all sent to a small junk-clogged storage room to do a bit of heavy lifting and recycling as part of their collective penance. “You need to come to grips with who you are and who you want to be,” Principal Bentley says to the four of them. And, of course, cleaning up trash is the perfect way to facilitate that directive.

Little do any of them realize, however, that the principal is being somewhat prophetic. Oh, yes he is. For amid the piles of stuff in that closet, Fridge finds what appears to be a very old-school video game console with a cartridge labeled Jumanji jammed into its game slot.

Now, Spencer is a pretty well-versed video game guy. But he’s never heard of this one. Still, he figures it’ll likely beat ripping apart ancient magazines. So the kids plug the game into an old TV, flip the console on and choose their characters.

With a rain of sparks, some bright flashing lights and the thunder-like rumble of … Are those jungle drums? … all four teens are dematerialized and sucked into the little buzzing console.

But that’s not the most amazing thing.

What’s really incredible is the fact that they all find themselves in a deep, dank jungle. Spencer has somehow been transformed into a hulking, smoldering giant of a man: an archeologist named Dr. Bravestone. Fridge? Well he’s now in the short and diminutive body of Moose Finbar, a zoologist and weapons expert. Martha has become a Lara Croft lookalike named Ruby Roundhouse. But oddest of all is that fact that the gorgeous Bethany is now a tubby cartographer named Sheldon Oberon.

And before you can say, “What just happened!” Bethany/Sheldon gets grabbed by a passing hippo, slammed about and gobbled whole. Only to appear again, falling out of the sky, soon after that seeming demise.

Yup, this Jumanji place is going to take some getting used to.

And, it turns out, a little saving, too.

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The teens trapped and transformed inside this video game challenge gradually learn that they must work together, best a villainous bad guy and break a curse affecting the world of Jumanji. And along the way, these disparate adolescents (albeit clothed with decidedly adult avatars) become good friends. And they begin coming to grips with, well, “Who they are and who they want to be.”

Spencer, for example, realizes that his all-controlling fears and phobias are not always rational. Fridge learns some lessons about the value of friendship. Martha concludes that her formerly self-imposed shyness and isolation are quite limiting. And Bethany comes to grips with the fact that her social media selfie-obsessions didn’t really represent what she enjoys most in life. (In fact, at one point Bethany states, “Ever since I lost my phone it feels like my other senses have been heightened.”)

All the teens eventually understand that it takes more than muscles or beauty to make someone into an admirable person: It takes virtues such as trust, compassion and self-sacrifice.

Spiritual Elements

The Jumanji game is imbued with unexplained magic. We first see it as a board game that’s washed up on a beach (a nod to the original Jumanji film from 1996). But then the game magically transforms into a video game and pulls someone magically into its world. Twenty years later it happens again with the story’s heroes.

The video game jungle world the teens play through is all magically controlled as well. In fact, their main quest is to break a curse that beset the land after someone stole a powerful ancient jewel. This jewel gives the thief magical control over the myriad beasts and crawling creatures of the land. We also see bugs and spiders crawling around on him. For instance, a millipede crawls up and into the man’s ear; at another point, he opens his mouth, and a scorpion crawls out.

In addition, each of our heroes is given three “game lives.” Life gauges, represented by tattoos on their arms, decrease in number each time they are killed or lose a life in the game. After each “death” they disappear, and an unharmed version of their avatar regenerates and drops from the sky.

Sexual Content

There’s quite a bit of female skin on display when we meet Martha’s new Lara Croft-like avatar. Even she feels uncomfortable with the exposure and chooses to cover up a bit at one point—wrapping a borrowed jacket around her waist. Of course, Spencer’s muscular Dr. Bravestone avatar gets plenty of notice from the women in the group, too. “D–n, that is a man right there,” Bethany/Sheldon drools. But at least the brawny Bravestone keeps his shirt on.

When it comes to Bethany and her male avatar, though, there are lots of jokes, quips and visual gags tossed out concerning her gender-blurring body swap. The tubby male cartographer goes on and on about the new, uh, male appendage that he/she isn’t used to dealing with. That joke is revisited several times. And he/she also makes numerous gushing comments about the attractive males in their in-game party. When they meet another player named Alex, the guy gives an odd look to the short and stocky Sheldon after the character’s obviously girl-like reactions. Fridge tells Sheldon that the person behind the avatar is actually a very attractive girl. “If you were out there alive, you’d probably hit that,” he insists.

Later, Bethany/Sheldon gives Alex a lingering mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. And after hugging him, other characters make surprised verbal note of Sheldon/Bethany’s clearly aroused (albeit off-camera) physiological response.

As far as Bethany’s real-world persona is concerned, we see her taking selfie shots that strategically expose skin. She states that her boyfriend likes it when she takes pics like that. “It’s the key to our relationship,” she says matter-of-factly. And when she reappears back in the real world, Bethany grabs her own breasts and sighs about how much she’s missed them.

Jokes are made about male genital size. Spencer and Martha kiss in both avatar and real-world form.

Violent Content

Jumanji is staged as an action-adventure game, so there are many thumping, pummeling, shooting and explosive scenes that unfold during our heroes’ jungle trek. A villainous explorer named Van Pelt sends scores of wild beasts after the teens in the game. We see several characters attacked by massive hippos, leaping and slashing jaguars, charging white rhinos and a thundering elephant. Some characters die in these attacks, though the violent deaths are always bloodless, and lives are subsequently regenerated.

The heroes are also set upon by Van Pelt’s motorcycle-riding thugs. These men shoot rifles and missile launchers. Some of them also fall from great heights. Fridge’s character literally blows up at one point.

Spencer and Martha spend several scenes flying into action and pounding various baddies. Martha’s Ruby Roundhouse is quite adept at “dance fighting” as well as leaping into the air and kicking foes in the chest and head. Spencer’s Dr. Bravestone, however, is much more straightforward: He uses duck-and-parry game moves to slam enemies into walls and literally launch them through the ceiling with massive uppercut shots. One man is killed via a scorpion sting to the neck.

Crude or Profane Language

Three or four s-words are spit out, as are a few f-word substitutes, such as “frickin’.” “H—” and “a–” both show up more than a dozen times each. And we hear a few uses of “d–n” and “b–ch.” Jesus’ name is misused once and God’s name is misused some 15 times.

Drug and Alcohol Content

One of Alex’s in-game skills is the ability to mix great margaritas. Spencer and Martha try the blended concoctions, but spit them out. Fridge, however, gladly knocks down several glasses of the stuff, getting a little tipsy in the process.

Other Negative Elements

Spencer’s mother reinforces his personal fears about the world around him. “Remember, the world is a terrifying place,” she tells him. There are a few urination jokes in the mix here, too.

When you’re trying to craft a fun movie-house distraction for the family, it’s probably smart to think beyond the typical film formula and come up with something rollicking, wondrous and imagination-filled. So it makes sense that this pic’s moviemakers decided to harken back to a fantasy romp from the ’90s with a recognizable name and comedic pedigree.

Just sprinkle in a handful of contemporary stars, stir in an updated plot twist, whisk briskly, and you’ve got a nice little matinee pudding with just the right amount of sugar and sprinkles, right?

Well, sorta. I mean, there’s broad, believe-in-yourself fun to be had here, but …

The problem is that while trying to craft something for your typical 13-year-old’s enjoyment, the new Jumanji writing team dumbed things down, and sexed things up, a little too much. The nerd-to-video-game-hero body-swap conceit at the core of things is cute. But it offers a limited pool of ideas and giggles. And the writers go back to that shallow jungle watering hole way too often. That’s especially true with Jack Black’s tubby-guy-who’s-really-a-pretty-girl character: He/she continually sashays about with girlish vim and trades a selfie-taking obsession for an obsession with his/her anatomically male parts. ( Ew , indeed.)

Add in a lot more foul language than you might expect in a movie built for the kids, and you’ve got a fantasy actioner that’s much less, uh, fantastic than it could have been.

After spending more than two decades touring, directing, writing and producing for Christian theater and radio (most recently for Adventures in Odyssey, which he still contributes to), Bob joined the Plugged In staff to help us focus more heavily on video games. He is also one of our primary movie reviewers.

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The people who become unwittingly trapped inside the Jumanji video game.

Spencer Gilpin

Played by: alex wolff , dwayne johnson (bravestone), awkwafina (ming), appearances: jumanji: welcome to the jungle | jumanji: the next level.

• Ambiguously Jewish : On at least two occasions, Spencer breaks out in Yiddish .
• Apologetic Attacker : He warns a mook that he can "punch really, really hard". It is not a Badass Boast but worried in tone.
• Author Catchphrase : In-Universe , he apparently has a habit of using a "spread like wildfire" metaphor in his papers, including the ones he writes for Fridge. This is why they are caught and thrown in detention.
• Badass Biker : The film climax sees him capturing a flamethrower-bike from Van Pelt's mercenaries and using it to save Bethany and keep the jaguars away.
• Brilliant, but Lazy : He used the same wildfire metaphor in all of his essays, even the ones Fridge made him do for him, which is how their teacher found out they were cheating and what landed them in detention.
• Calling Your Attacks : He calls out his moves while fighting Van Pelt's henchmen at the bazaar, likely a nod to his habit of doing this while playing Street Fighter .
• Character Tic : Rubbing his now-bald head in Welcome to the Jungle .
• Cowardly Lion : Despite being the strongest and fastest of the player characters in Welcome to the Jungle , Spencer is still easily frightened and his first reaction to danger is to usually start running. His entire Character Development is learning to be braver than he originally was, becoming more aware and appreciative of the "one life" everyone in Real Life has, while in the sequel, he learns to appreciate what he has in his current life and not in the Escapist Fantasy of Jumanji.
• Cross Player : Lands in the body of jewel thief Ming in his second go-around. Finds it less than ideal, purely on the basis that playing as Ming isn't the same kind of power trip he was used to as Bravestone, although a "Freaky Friday" Flip with his grandfather corrects that.
• Decoy Protagonist : In The Next Level . While in the beginning of the film it seemed like Spencer was the main character, once his Grandpa Eddie stepped in the focus of the film shifted to the latter.
• Endearingly Dorky : His enthusiastic "I'M A NERD!" when Martha tells him she likes nerds totally sells it.
• Genre Savvy : Being a gamer, he seems familiar with most video game tropes, such as being the first to notice that Nigel is just an NPC and can't really respond to them due to having programmed responses and nothing more. Most of the time at least.
• Gory Discretion Shot : His death by a jaguar is only seen briefly, from afar, and without a drop of blood.
• Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow : Spencer has longish hair as a teenager. As Bravestone, he is completely bald (and has trouble adjusting to it).
• Insecure Love Interest : Part of the reason Spencer returns to Jumanji was that he was doubting his relationship with Martha as she seemed to have her college life more together than he did. He gets better and is back with Martha again.
• It's Personal : His instant thought about the final level is that he should do it alone. A death from squirrel scare later, he decides it should be done through teamwork.
• Nerdy Inhaler : The nerdy Spencer uses an inhaler at the beginning of The Next Level while texting his friends his plans to visit his grandfather for the holidays.
• Nerves of Steel : Averted. Despite one of the Bravestone avatar's abilities being 'Fearless', Spencer's nerdy inner self still comes through on most occasions. He loses one of his lives during the finale because he gets startled by a squirrel and falls out of the trees into a pack of jaguars, and Fridge even tells it's really him at the start of the game because he becomes incredibly alarmed simply by an overpassing bird.
• Nom de Mom : As revealed in The Next Level , Gilpin is his maternal grandfather's surname and thus his mother's maiden name, all but confirming that Spencer's father isn't around for whatever reason.
• Twinkle in the Sky . Oddly, it's not listed as one of his strengths.
• Unskilled, but Strong : He's never had any combat training, and his character fights using Good Old Fisticuffs . He's also a massive Lightning Bruiser that can punch through stone.
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? : Spencer is terrified of squirrels.
• Wrestler in All of Us : As Bravestone, he performs the Rock Bottom on a Mook.

Anthony "Fridge" Johnson

Played by: ser'darius blain , kevin hart (mouse), jack black (shelly), karen gillan (ruby).

• Absurd Phobia : Losing a life to cake in Welcome to the Jungle causes him to develop a phobia of cake. It's to the point that in The Next Level , he freaks out upon being offered cake at Jumanji and throws the cake away, and even in the real world, he's too scared of eating cake.
• Accidental Misnaming : Fridge picks Mouse because he misread the character's nickname as "Moose." Fridge: "Moose Finbar"... sounds like a badass.
• Berserk Button : Being called a dumbass. It angers him enough to push Spencer/Bravestone off a cliff, costing him a life.
• The Big Guy : In his real-life self, he is the tallest of the kids due to being a football player. That is why he feels ticked off that his video game avatar is shorter.
• Black Is Bigger in Bed : Much to his relief, Fridge claims that he managed to retain his...you-know-what size despite his avatar being two feet shorter than him.
• Book Dumb : He's struggling academically, to the point he just has Spencer do his papers for him at first. However, much like many real-life examples, he's not stupid and actually has good strategic thinking skills.
• Butt-Monkey : Easily the biggest one of the group by far. Things never seem to go his way in the game, starting with the fact that he gets hurt an awful lot every time he plays. Even worse, he consistently ends up in avatars with few strengths and a great many weaknesses, from Mouse Finbar to Shelly Oberon. In the second film, he somehow ends up worse off once he becomes Shelly, due to his avatar having gained an additional three weaknesses. And of course, there's that one issue with his new avatar he's particularly bothered by: Fridge: I came back and things actually got worse! At least last time I was still black!
• Like all the main characters, he goes through this. In Fridge's case, it's both learning to rely on and appreciate others, and learning how to operate with brains, not brawn (the "one thing he was good at").
• In the sequel, he learns to appreciate the skills his Non-Action Guy avatar, Shelley Oberon, has. It's also noteworthy that he hated how Mouse Finbar was the exact physical antithesis to himself in the first film, but later demonstrated ecstatic relief to be back in Finbar's body.
• His avatars in Jumanji arguably fall victim to the other side of this, with Mouse and Shelley being intellectually capable at the cost of being virtually useless physically.
• Deadpan Snarker : He and Martha both share this role, with Fridge in particular, snarking at everything wrong with the situation.
• Dumbass Has a Point : By the time of the second movie, Fridge is no longer willfully stupid, but he is the one who makes it clear that the current controller/avatar dynamic doesn't work as the group prepare to assault Jurgan's fortress.
• Jerk Jock : He's an indifferent dick in real life, forcing Spencer to do homework for him because he's the closest thing the poor nerd has to a friend. In the game, he dismisses him as an "annoying kid that I’ve been trying to shake since the seventh grade" — then shoves him off a cliff. His entire story arc is about not being this trope anymore.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold : He is a Jerk Jock who forces Spencer to do his homework, looks down on him, and is overall rather arrogant — his response to Spencer calling him a "dumbass" is to literally shove him off a cliff. However, he's still fundamentally a good person and a good friend to Spencer nonetheless, and in Jumanji he pulls through for the others numerous times, rouses Spencer by telling him You Are Better Than You Think You Are , and he saves the others in a Big Damn Heroes moment by riding in on an elephant .
• Large Ham : As Shelly in The Next Level , courtesy of Jack Black. His scene as Ruby too, as Fridge gets overwhelmed with joy in being back in an athletic body for a change.
• Regarding the latter, the reason this even happens is because Fridge lost the gem and the rhinos were guarding it forcing Spencer to use him as a distraction to get it back.
• Man, I Feel Like a Woman : He briefly switches avatars with Martha by accident in the second film. Martha warns him to not grope Ruby Roundhouse's boobs, but it's too late because that was the first thing he did after the switch.
• Never My Fault : During the first movie, Fridge blames Spencer for the group getting sucked into the video and for him failing his homework, which got him kicked off the team. He's ignoring the fact that he was the one who found the gaming system and that had he done his own homework, he possibly wouldn't have gotten kicked off the football team in the first place. Instead, he pushes all the blame for his troubles onto Spencer. Luckily, he grows out of this.
• Only Sane Man : At least about Jumanji itself. He's consistently adamant about just getting home and never touching the game again. In the game, he's just as prone to the others to getting caught up in antics or achievements—he's still a teenager after all.
• Shipper on Deck : A downplayed and frequently exasperated example towards Spencer and Martha. Fridge can be seen silently cringing when Spencer awkwardly tries to talk to Martha in the detention room, and tells the two of them off later in the game for "having a moment" when they currently have other things to worry about.
• Being a football player means he knows how to work with a team and improvise strategies for getting past "defenders", which he puts to good use in the final confrontation of the first game .
• In the second game, he points out how some players are just not good matches for their avatar based on the role the avatar is supposed to serve—Milo is too slow-talking as Finbar and thus doesn't pass on critical information in time, Eddie is too reckless as Bravestone and thus drags the group into unnecessary danger, etc.
• This Is for Emphasis, Bitch! : Utters this line as he enters the scene, sitting astride an elephant. Fridge: ZOOLOGY, BITCH!
• Uncle Tomfoolery : His type of comedy as the Plucky Comic Relief . Before dying by the cake, he asks if he's still black and he is relieved that he kept his "size" when transported into Jumanji.
• We Used to Be Friends : Fridge used to be childhood friends with Spencer, but his growing focus on football put a big gap between the two. The both of them reconcile by the end of the movie and become friends once more.
• Yank the Dog's Chain : After getting stuck as both non-physical characters, he’s thrilled to be switched into Ruby, not even caring at all that he’s playing as a woman. Then his insisting on showing off his new moves quickly gets him put back into Shelley.

Bethany Walker

Played by: madison iseman , jack black (shelly).

• Animorphism : In the second film, she ends up in the avatar of a new playable character named Cyclone, which is a black horse.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine : Bethany wears a midriff-baring shirt, reflecting her beauty influencer personality, in contrast to Martha, the other girl of the group who is nerdy and Book Smart . Her final scene averts this — Bethany wears a more conservative, outdoorsy outfit, showing how the game has taught her to become less appearance-obsessed.
• Break the Haughty : A self-absorbed Dumb Blonde gets stuck in the body of a fat middle-aged man. She gets better.
• Book Dumb : To an extent. While she may have good people judgment skills and finished her quiz early (but got detention for using a phone while in class) in the film, she is somewhat confused about the proper terminology and definition for paleontology and cartography, which the latter's profession is improvised as "map doctor" when she forgot.
• Butt-Monkey : Bethany gets the short end of the stick when it comes to the avatars she ends up as. In the first film, she became a fat middle-aged man and in the second film, she turns into a horse . To her credit, she warms up to the former and takes the latter rather in stride.
• Character Development : the events of Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle turned her from a vapid popular kid into someone quite outdoorsy and thirsting for travel.
• Cross Player : A female character playing a male avatar. Twice; Shelly Oberon is played by Jack Black and Cyclone is a stallion.
• Ditzy Genius : Downplayed. She's not a genius, but she is able to deduct and improvise on the fly and has a good aptitude for schoolwork.
• Dumb Blonde : She's a pretty blonde teenager who is quite shallow and Book Dumb . She has a few Hidden Depths though.
• The Friend Nobody Likes : She gets a lot of flak for her It's All About Me attitude. The only reason she isn't labeled as an Alpha Bitch is that she doesn't seem that popular in the first place. Everyone eventually warms up to her, though.
• While spacey and shallow, Bethany is quite a bit smarter than she appears—in Jumanji, she has a talent for remembering things, like needing to shout "JUMANJI!" at the end, and figures out what "the missing piece" means before everyone else. Even before she gets sucked into the game, her smarts are hinted at by how she finishes a quiz before everyone else.
• She's also good at listening to others and giving advice, as Martha and Alex both comment on.
• She also gave up her last extra life to Alex without a moment of hesitation, showing that despite her It's All About Me tendencies, she is perfectly willing to put her life at risk to save another.
• It's All About Me : Pretty self-centered until Character Development , to the point that when her teacher tells her that she shouldn't use her phone during a quiz because other people are still taking it, she just gives a quizzical look.
• When they first arrive in Jumanji she freaks out when she realizes she doesn't have her cellphone anymore. The others call her out, assuming she just wants to check social media, but Bethany replies that she wants it to try and call for help.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold : While she complains a lot about her predicament, she does do her best to help out the others, especially Martha in terms of boosting her confidence in her body and flirting skills. Being stuck in the body of a middle-aged, obese man (and being separated from her phone) does wonders for bringing out her better side.
• Large Ham : Jack Black is already one of the largest hams working in the industry. Now imagine him acting like a stereotypical teenage girl.
• Likes Older Men : It is all but explicitly stated that Bethany has a crush on Alex after they met in Jumanji, even after they meet in the real world when he's now a father of two.
• Man, I Feel Like a Woman : Gender inverted, as, while there is little explicit sexual subtext to it, Bethany is fascinated by the experience of having a penis due to inhabiting a male avatar and even talks to it once or twice.
• Ms. Fanservice : Downplayed, given that she's still in high school, but she's clearly attractive, to the point that she tries to get out of being in detention due to her good looks . It helps that her outfit shows her midriff .
• Nice Girl : Invoked and discussed, while also who she really is. It's less that Bethany is a jerk on her own, and more that everyone else (and especially Martha) sees her as an archetypical Alpha Bitch , much to Bethany's confusion and against her actual personality. She might be ignorant and self-centered, but she's never actively mean to anyone.
• Phoneaholic Teenager : Of the Instagram variety. She's legitimately amazed at how sociable and considerate she becomes without her phone.
• The Pollyanna : She takes everything in remarkable stride. While she is at first upset to be stuck in a man's body, she starts looking for the upsides to it and keeps a positive mind overall.
• Proud Beauty : To the point where "You can hook up with anyone you want" is a Survival Mantra for her. She once wore a bikini to school and posts a ton of pictures without a hint of self-consciousness. Her response to being stuck in Shelly's body is a Big "NO!" .
• Security Blanket : She's a Phoneaholic Teenager , and it's such a constant presence in her life and day-to-day activities that she genuinely panics when she's without it, at least until she adjusts.
• Took a Level in Kindness : The first movie sees her shed her It's All About Me attitude to become a genuine Nice Girl . In the sequel, she's much sweeter to everyone, and immediately agrees to return to Jumanji with Martha to save Spencer.
• Walking Swimsuit Scene : Apparently she once went to school just wearing a bikini and got sent to detention because of this.
• What You Are in the Dark : When the rest of the group are trapped back in Jumanji, where Bethany could have just ignored everything and left to keep herself safe, she instead sought out Alex—the only other person she knew of with experience in Jumanji—to ask for his help.

Martha Kaply

Played by: morgan turner, karen gillan (ruby), jack black (shelly).

• Character Development : She becomes a lot more confident in herself, as well as losing her judgmental and reclusive attitude.
• Closest Thing We Got : In Next Level Martha basically has to become the group's leader as Spencer is initially lost (and resurfaces in a relatively useless avatar ), Fridge is too focused on trying to overcome Shelly's limits and Eddie and Milo don't really understand the situation.
• Deadpan Snarker : Shares this role with Fridge.
• Heroic Suicide : A very interesting variation. As Ruby, she deliberately invokes her 'venom' weakness in the climax by provoking a venomous snake to bite her. This causes her to lose her second life but also invokes the game's respawning mechanic allowing her to get the Jaguar's Eye to Spence/Bravestone and win the game.
• Holier Than Thou : Has faint shades of this, regarding how she pre-emptively judges her gym teacher and Bethany for being sporty and self-centered, respectively. Bethany calls her on this and goes on to deduce Martha does it because she's afraid other people won't like her, so she decides not to like them first. Martha admits she's right, and after that grows out of it .
• Innocently Insensitive : What got her tossed in detention was her passionate speech about how she wanted to do more than her life than end up as a gym teacher. Martha's expression and apology make it clear she didn't mean it as an insult and just forgot who she was talking to. She still gets in trouble.
• Leitmotif : Big Mountain's cover of Peter Frampton 's "Baby I Love Your Way".
• Nerds Are Sexy : Martha has a mad crush on Spencer for his nerdiness.
• Official Couple : With Spencer. They stop for a while in Next Level because of Spencer's insecurity before they got back together again.
• Pre Ass Kicking One Liner : "You guys like to dance?"
• Redheads Are Uncool : Martha has red hair and is socially awkward.
• Reluctant Fanservice Girl : Martha clearly expresses her distaste for Ruby's outfit.
• Socially Awkward Hero : She's quiet, judgmental, and, by her own admittance, not good at talking to people. Her speech to the gym teacher about what she thinks school is about is clearly impassioned, but also inadvertently insulting. By the sequel, she appears to have overcome this, having an active Instagram account and a wider circle of friends.
• Stepford Snarker : Martha's snarky attitude is partially a defense mechanism for her social awkwardness and loner tendencies, something that Bethany points out.

Alex Vreeke

Played by: mason guccione (teen), colin hanks (adult), nick jonas (seaplane).

• Celebrity Crush : On Cindy Crawford . He'd sure like to get jiggy with her .
• Expy Coexistence : Of Alan Parrish, the protagonist of the original Jumanji film, being a player who has been trapped in Jumanji for years. He even lives in the hideout Alan built during his imprisonment.
• Homeless Hero : The closest thing he has for a home while he is trapped in Jumanji is Alan Parrish's old treehouse. Other than that, he's pretty much living in the jungle by himself. Alex : Alan built this house. I'm just living in it.
• I Owe You My Life : To Bethany, when she saves his life by giving him one of hers. From that point on he becomes quite protective of her, asking Van Pelt to take him instead when she's held hostage and immediately leaping to her defense. He even names his daughter after her.
• "Near and Dear" Baby Naming : Alex winds up naming his daughter after Bethany, who sacrificed one of her lives in Jumanji so that Alex could make it home.
• Older and Wiser : In the sequel, having lived his life for twenty years in the fixed timeline, he is much more levelheaded and calm on his return to Jumanji, doing his part to keep the core team steady and encouraging them (being a father helping him in that part), being the only mature adult in the group who actually understands what is going on. He has also traded out his Totally Radical 90s slang for Dad jokes .
• Shell-Shocked Veteran : He has more than a few vibes of this, talking about how just the thought of the transportation shed freaks him out, acting jittery and muttering "I hate this place" once inside, and blatantly backpedaling away from the thought of piloting.
• Sixth Ranger : Joins the group later in the story. Becomes the 11th-Hour Ranger in the sequel, when Bethany turns to him for help in rescuing the rest of her team when they get sucked into Jumanji again without her. Despite having his reservations, he still does it anyway.
• Totally Radical : He still speaks in 90s slang. This is Played for Drama when this makes the rest of the gang realize that he's the Alex that went missing in the 90s and that he's been stuck in the game for nearly 20 years while he thinks it has only been a few months.
• When he loses two of his lives in a very quick succession, he takes it in strides, rather than being panicked and traumatized as he did upon his first contact with Jumanji .

Eddie Gilpin

Played by: danny devito , dwayne johnson (smolder), awkwafina (ming), appearances: jumanji: the next level.

• Character Development : Was initially a Grumpy Old Man angered by the loss of his highly successful business and his youth, grumpily advising Spencer to enjoy his youth as much as he can since "growing up sucks." After playing Jumanji , he comes to realize through Milo's decision to stay in the game that the fact that he managed to get old at all is in itself a miracle and learns to appreciate the long life he's led.
• Cross Player : Ends up in the body of the female Ming after switching avatars with Spencer.
• Dirty Old Man : Played for Laughs when he-as-Bravestone asks Bravestone's ex-girlfriend to repeat explaining things so she got to kiss him again.
• Drunk with Power : Eddie quickly becomes this upon realizing he has Bravestone's strength. To the point where he beats up an entire army.
• Grumpy Old Man : Unlike Milo, Eddie isn't content with his aging life, repeatedly saying that growing old sucks. Until he Took a Level in Cheerfulness and Kindness after finishing the game.
• Like Father, Like Son : Well, Like Grandfather , Like Grandson. He ends up in the same avatars as Spencer.
• Never My Fault : He never truly takes responsibility for some of his more reckless actions. His only response to everyone giving him dirty looks for getting them all killed by Switchblade is a Defensive "What?" .
• Papa Wolf : When Spencer (as Ming) almost lost another... or rather, his last life to a mandril, Eddie makes good use of Bravestone's strength and heroically saves his grandson.
• Parental Substitute : He seems to be Spencer's only father figure.
• Race Lift : He's a white, elderly man who ends up in the bodies of Samoan and African-American descended Dwayne Johnson and Asian Awkwafina.
• Took a Level in Badass : After spending most of the game being The Load and Lethally Stupid , Eddie picks up his shit together when the group is surrounded by a horde of mandrils on the Rope Bridge and he manages to heroically save Spencer and Milo on two different occasions.
• Unskilled, but Strong : As Bravestone, he's ungodly strong. On the other hand, he's an old man with little grasp on video games or anything in general.

Milo Walker

Played by: danny glover , kevin hart (mouse).

• Animorphism : He switches avatars with Bethany, turning him into a horse. At the end of the movie, he chooses to stay like that due to dying of an unspecified illness in the real world.
• Comically Missing the Point : His difficulty in understanding that Jumanji is the name of the game and not a person is a Running Gag .
• Convenient Terminal Illness : He's got a terminal illness, which is why he chooses to stay in Jumanji.
• Cool Old Guy : Milo is very kind and friendly.
• Know When to Fold 'Em : How he rationalized retiring and selling his and Eddie's diner, understanding that he was getting too old for the business and was better off living the remainder of his life to the fullest. Hence why it basically took being diagnosed with a terminal illness to drive him to try and make amends with Eddie.
• I Choose to Stay : He decides to stay in Jumanji at the end of the film.
• Rambling Old Man Monologue : Tends to do this a lot, complete with long pauses in between his sentences, which is really not helpful in a video game when you have to act quickly and on your feet. This is why he's much better suited for the non-verbal avatar Cyclone. Milo: Did I kill Eddie... by talking too slow... just like he always said I would?!

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Game avatars.

The avatars that those playing the Jumanji video game are able to choose from.

Dr. Xander "Smolder" Bravestone

Played by: dwayne johnson , zachary tzegaegbe (young).

• The Ace : Being the strongest, fastest, and lacking any weaknesses whatsoever, this Avatar is undoubtedly the best in the game.
• Adventure Archaeologist : His whole thing, Bravestone is known the world over for his famous adventures.
• Arch-Enemy : In the context of the game, several characters have enmity with him or vice-versa. The first movie gives us his Evil Former Friend and rival archaeologist Russel Van Pelt. The second movie introduced Jurgen the Brutal, The Conqueror who killed Bravestone's parents when he was a child. And Switchblade, the mob boss who married Bravestone's ex-girlfriend and hates him because he knows his wife still has feelings for him. Switchblade is even characterized as his Weakness, meaning that Bravestone will lose any confrontation he has with the mob boss.
• Glass Cannon : While he's the strongest player avatar among the selection, he can still be defeated by dangerous foes in one hit, much like other characters.
• The Hero : Smolder clearly is supposed to be the Jumanji's main protagonist, evidenced by all his superior stats compared to his companions , having a past with the Big Bad and the NPCs addressing him first and foremost.
• Heroic Build : He has the tall, muscular physique of the Rock , befitting his role as The Hero .
• It's Personal : Van Pelt stares at him like he has known him for years, which is consistent with Nigel's introduction. Switchblade also hates him for trying to take his wife away from him.
• Large Ham : One of his abilities is "Smoldering Intensity," aka striking a pose and very dramatically turning everything he says into a one-liner on a whim.
• Lightning Bruiser : He is stronger AND faster than his teammates and demonstrates quick reflexes during his fight at the bazaar.
• Mr. Fanservice : Played for Laughs . He's a good-looking, extremely muscular man, whose "Smoldering Intensity" ability makes women swoon for him.
• Nerf : In The Next Level , Bravestone gains a single weakness in the form of Switchblade, a Mob Boss who is the current lover of Bravestone's ex. Unfortunately, Eddie becomes stubbornly overconfident in Bravestone's strength, which gives Switchblade an opening to successfully kill the entire group with a single missile .
• Super-Reflexes : In the bazaar fight, he is able to catch a knife in mid-air moments before it could hit Fridge.
• Super-Speed : Best shown during the second level, where he sees Van Pelt's henchmen approaching and yells at the group to run, only to turn around and see they've already got a big head start. He catches up to and overtakes the lot of them with ease.
• Super-Strength : During the bazaar fight, he punches and throws a couple of henchmen into a wall. In the sequel, he takes out 45 opponents without taking a scratch and sends a huge ostrich flying with one hit. Albeit his strength doesn't equal durability , as if something can harm him then it typically can also one-shot him (as he also gets killed with one peck from an ostrich).
• True Companions : In Jumanji's backstory, Dr. Bravestone saved Mouse Finbar from a warlord in the Peruvian jungle, and the two have been inseparable ever since.
• You Killed My Father : According to the game's backstory, Jurgen the Brutal killed Dr. Bravestone's parents when Bravestone was just a little boy.

Franklin "Mouse" Finbar

Played by: kevin hart.

• Alliterative Name : F ranklin F inbar. Though his nickname, "Mouse," subverts it.
• Badass Bookworm : He has an encyclopedic knowledge of all animals, and allows him to perform feats like defanging a Black Mamba, one of the most dangerous animals alive.
• Bag of Holding : To Deus ex Machina levels. His 'Weapons Valet' skill basically translates into the gameplay as "anything the group needs, Mouse is carrying it".
• The Beastmaster : The ultimate expression of his 'Zoology' skill is the ability to tame Jumanji's wildlife and command it, which he uses to commandeer an elephant in the finale of Welcome to the Jungle . The Next Level builds upon this by letting him actually speak to animals.
• Crippling Overspecialization : He has the skills 'zoology' and 'weapons valet' , as well as a whopping three weaknesses; a fatal allergy to cake, and being the slowest and weakest member of the team. In The Next Level , he gains the skill 'Linguistics', but keeps all three weaknesses.
• Enemy Scan : His knowledge in zoology allows him to explain any animal they encounter and how they pose as a threat or methods to subdue them.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power : Zoology turns out to be really useful, as it allows Mouse to defang a Black Mamba after an Enemy Scan and tame an elephant .
• Human Pack Mule : His primary role is to carry around a backpack that contains weapons and items useful to the group. Fridge even lampshades it, calling him "Backpack guy".
• Meaningful Name : Finbar's nickname, "Mouse," is based on his diminutive size and quirky personality. It also comes into play when he has to tame an elephant. "Mouse and elephant."
• The Napoleon : In Kevin Hart form.
• Non-Action Guy : Downplayed. While he's not an action-oriented character like Bravestone and Ruby, his zoology skill does require him to do some kind of action, such as defanging a snake and taming and riding an elephant.
• Speaks Fluent Animal : In The Next Level , his new 'Linguistics' skill includes the ability to verbally communicate with animals.
• True Companions : In Jumanji's backstory, Dr. Bravestone saved Mouse from a warlord in the Peruvian jungle, and the two have been inseparable ever since.
• Weaksauce Weakness : Cake products of any kind cause him to spontaneously explode in-game. This traumatizes Fridge enough that by the end of The Next Level , he swears off cake in the real world entirely.

Ruby Roundhouse

Played by: karen gillan.

• Action Girl : Aside from Smolder, Ruby is the other combat-centric player character.
• Alliterative Name : R uby R oundhouse.
• Bare Midriffs Are Feminine : She's the only female-bodied player character, and the only one with a bared midriff. If the Lara Croft-esque shorts aren't sexy enough, her crop-top yells out the fanserviciness in her outfit.
• Character Catchphrase : You guys like to dance?
• Dance Battler : One of her abilities is Dance Fighting, which translates to beatings scored to Big Mountain's cover of "Baby I Love Your Way" by Peter Frampton .
• Expy : Ruby Roundhouse is one for Lara Croft , a Ms. Fanservice adventurer who kicks all kinds of ass while inexplicably being dressed in a skimpy outfit.
• Fiery Redhead : She is a force to be reckoned with when fighting.
• Ms. Fanservice : A beautiful, athletic woman wearing Lara Croft -esque crop top and shorts. Ironically, Martha has to be coached into properly acting like one since in real life she is a shy girl.
• The Smurfette Principle : As stated above, she's the only female avatar in the game. Averted in The Next Level , where Ming Fleetfoot is added as another female avatar.
• Statuesque Stunner : Comes with being played by Karen Gillan. Out of five avatars, she's the lone female and towers over everyone except Bravestone, and she’s quite attractive.
• Super-Strength : While not to the same degree as Bravestone, she clearly is superhuman in physical ability. In the sequel when Fridge is trying out her body, he outright launches himself into the air when he tries to do a push-up and keeps marveling at how strong the body is. And if her Combat Dancing is active, she can take on a whole room of armed henchmen with little issue.
• Took a Level in Badass : Ruby was already tough the first time Martha played her in the game, but on her second visit Martha discovers that Ruby has gained an additional skill in the form of the ability to use nunchucks.

Professor Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon

Played by: jack black.

• Adventurer Outfit : He wears a scholar's version of the safari outfit, including a pith helmet.
• Awesomeness by Analysis : In the second game he gains expertise in geometry, which is vital to solving a puzzle with moving bridge segments.
• Butt-Monkey : In both films, his character is the first to die to demonstrate the lethality of the world of Jumanji, first when Bethany obliviously approaches a hippo, and second when Fridge explains to Eddie and Milo about his and Martha's previous experience only to get interrupted by a snake.
• Geek Physiques : He's short and chubby, being the brainy Non-Action Guy of the team.
• Gender-Blender Name : His nickname "Shelly" is often a boy or girl's name. In Welcome to the Jungle , this is why Bethany thought Shelly is a female sexy scientist instead of an overweight man.
• Irony : Serves as The Smart Guy of the avatars... yet The Smart Guy of the real world gang, Spencer, is the only one to never control Shelly.
• Nerf : In The Next Level , he gains three new weaknesses — Heat, Sun, and Sand.
• Non-Action Guy : He's a non-fighting avatar who supports the team with his scientific knowledge.
• The Smart Guy : He's supposed to be the brains of the team, with advanced knowledge in cartography, archaeology, and paleontology (as well as geometry in the sequel), making it all the more ironic when he's played by Bethany (and Fridge in the sequel).

Jefferson "Seaplane" McDonough

Played by: nick jonas.

• Ace Pilot : Oh, yes. Alex claims his skills are less than satisfactory, but given the skills he displays in the Vertical Scrolling Shooter section , it's more like the game punishing him for trying to complete the level alone.
• Cool Shades : Alex pulls a pair of aviator's shades out of nowhere during his Let's Get Dangerous! moment.
• Punny Name : Somewhat more subtle than the others; QED Jefferson Airplane .
• Universal Driver's License : He can pilot helicopters, airplanes, and hot air balloons.
• Weaksauce Weakness : He loses a life from a mosquito bite. And mosquitoes are everywhere in the Jumanji game.
• What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway? : Seaplane's two powers are piloting vehicles and making margaritas. Alex comments on how useless margarita making is when it comes to actually beating the game.

Ming Fleetfoot

Played by: awkwafina.

• Classy Cat-Burglar : Her main role.
• Dark Is Not Evil : Played by the good guys and is the first player character to dress in black in contrast to two final bosses playing the inverse .
• Loveable Rogue : One of the game's heroes despite being a criminal.
• Meaningful Name : Her surname, "Fleetfoot," alludes to her talent as a stealthy thief.
• Safecracking : One of her strengths.
• Weaksauce Weakness : Her one weakness is pollen, though oddly enough this never actually becomes an issue beyond Spencer noting it basically makes her a female version of him.

Jurgen the Brutal

Played by: rory mccann.

• All There in the Manual : The Reveal of his avatar nature will be explained in an upcoming Jumanji sequel.
• Always Someone Better : When Smolder first tries to fight Jurgen, he turns out to be far stronger, tougher, and bigger than even Smolder is.
• Bait the Dog : He is properly introduced proposing a toast to his hyenas' trainer, who had died. This seemingly sets him up as a Noble Demon , as if for all his barbaric nature he is still considerate of his followers. But then he reveals that he had personally killed the trainer for betraying him — and that the pieces of meat he is feeding the hyenas are in fact the remains of said trainer. Yeesh.
• Big Bad : Of The Next Level .
• Disney Villain Death : Falls to his death while fighting Spencer as Bravestone on his airship.
• Expy : He's basically a PG version of Sandor Clegane , only much eviler. It helps that Rory McCann uses the same accent that he used for the Hound.
• Knight of Cerebus : The darkest villain in the entire franchise. Jurgen the Brutal is a bloodthirsty warlord who's directly responsible for the death of Bravestone's parents and attempted to plunge Jumanji into a never-ending drought. Worst of all, as revealed during the final battle when Spencer accidentally triggers his stat chart, Jurgen is an avatar rather than an NPC — which means he's well aware of his actions throughout the game.
• Reused Character Design : He looks very similar to how Alan Parrish looked in the first film after being released from the jungle, complete with a beard.
• Super-Toughness : He's strong enough to No-Sell multiple Super-Strength punches to the face from Smolder.
• Weaksauce Weakness : His only weakness is the Jumanji Berry. Simply smearing its juice on his chest is enough to incapacitate him.
• Cool Horse : It is a black horse with a badass name. And as it turns out its skill allows it to transform into a Pegasus .
• Dark Is Not Evil : A black horse on the side of the heroes.
• Flight : The only avatar capable of flight.
• Pegasus : He is revealed to be one at the end of The Next Level .
• Shout-Out : Possibly. He's a jet-black horse named after a wind storm, just like Zorro 's horse Tornado.

Non-Playable Characters

Russell van pelt, played by: bobby cannavale other languages jérémie covillault (european french), appearances: jumanji: welcome to the jungle.

• Adaptational Attractiveness : Played with. This Van Pelt looks a great deal younger than the original one, but he is also creepier due to the Red Right Hand listed below.
• Adaptational Villainy : In the 1995 movie, Van Pelt was an Egomaniac Hunter sent to kill Alan and only him, being bound by the games' rules to not harm his friends because they didn't roll the dice . This Van Pelt has no such reservation with threatening any of the kids to get what he wants. Justified since the rules and circumstances of the game changed drastically and his motivations are radically different in this version of the game.
• Ambition Is Evil : At first he was just a determined archaeologist who wanted to find proof of the Jaguar Shrine. Once he found it and removed the Jaguar's Eye as proof of his discovery, he immediately turned corrupt and power-hungry. After that, he didn't care about the discovery anymore, now all that mattered was keeping the jewel for himself.
• Bad Boss : When one of his lackeys fails to catch the heroes, he executes him by stinging him with a scorpion .
• The Beastmaster : He gained the ability to control animals with his presence.
• Big Bad : Of Welcome to the Jungle .
• Cruel and Unusual Death : When Smolder returns the jewel back to its rightful place, Van Pelt disintegrates into a horde of rats .
• Dark Is Evil : He is the Big Bad , dresses in dark clothing, always seems to be seen in shadow, and has a black vulture as a Non-Human Sidekick .
• Generic Doomsday Villain : He has really no motivations for his actions. He wants the jewel back, but we have no clue what he would do with it. Justified since he's solely created to be a generic threat to inconvenience the heroes.
• The Infested : Van Pelt was cursed so that his body is filled with rats, spiders, millipedes and various dangerous creatures. He seems to have complete control over the creatures, as he uses them to kill any henchman who disappoints him .
• Lovecraftian Superpower : In addition to controlling animals, Van Pelt has the ability to store them inside his body, such as centipedes and scorpions.
• Named by the Adaptation : Downplayed. This time around, he has the first name "Russell".
• Non-Human Sidekick : He has a black vulture used to spy on the heroes and inform him of their location.
• Obviously Evil : Unlike the Van Pelt from the original movie, this take on the character is very visibly the bad guy, between his dressing in dark clothing, having a sinister-looking vulture as a sidekick, and being possessed of a genuinely creepy Red Right Hand .
• Red Right Hand : His left eye looks bright green as a result of being exposed to the Jaguar's Eye, to make his appearance even more sinister than it already is.
• Soft-Spoken Sadist : He never gets above a quiet, hoarse growl, even when holding Shelly at gunpoint or letting out a Little "No" when the title characters return the jewel .
• We Used to Be Friends : According to his backstory at least, he was friends with Smolder before becoming his rival.
• Would Hit a Girl : Played with. He holds a gun to Bethany's head when asking for the heroes to return the jewel, but she is a girl in a male avatar.
• Would Hurt a Child : Played with. Van Pelt has no problem attacking a group of teens, but they're all in adult bodies.
• The Worm That Walks : Downplayed, since he lets several bugs inhabit his body. Then when the jewel is returned and his body is hit by the World-Healing Wave , he just turns into a collapsing mass of bugs and rats.

Nigel Billingsley

Played by: rhys darby.

• Adventurer Archaeologist : He is an experienced jungle field guide who knows a lot about ancient temples and is respectful about the potential misuse of the Jewel of Jumanji.
• Just Eat Gilligan : The in-game story would've probably been over and done with if Nigel just went directly for the Jaguar statue and returned the jewel after swiping it from Van Pelt instead of writing a letter to Dr. Bravestone and having his team do it for him, allowing Van Pelt to mobilize his men and have time to prepare obstacles for the player characters. But then again, we wouldn't have a story now, would we?
• Large Ham : Part of his Mr. Exposition role is talking at the top of his lungs.
• Mr. Exposition : He serves as the field guide to the kids and explains the game's plot to them and what they should do in order to return home.
• Welcome to Corneria : Nigel is an artificial non-playable character and not a real person, therefore his dialogue is very limited to provide exposition to the players and repeat it whenever necessary.

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Jumanji is a 1995 fantasy film directed by Joe Johnston and based on the children's book of the same name written by Chris Van Allsburg. The film stars Robin Williams as Alan Parrish, who returns 26 years later after being banished into a strange land as he and a friend discovered and participated in a magical board game called "Jumanji". His return was triggered when a pair of siblings found the game and proceed to unleash other fantastic elements in the present day. The cast includes Jonathan Hyde , Kirsten Dunst and Bonnie Hunt. Along with the first Jurassic Park , Jumanji was one of the first movies to make extensive use of CGI in a non-fantasy setting. The film would be followed 22 years later in 2017 with the sequel Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and then in 2019 with Jumanji: The Next Level .

The following weapons were used in the film Jumanji :

• 1.1 Taurus Model 66
• 2.1 Winchester 1901 Shotgun
• 2.2 Daewoo USAS-12
• 2.3 Mossberg 500
• 2.4 Franchi SPAS-12
• 3.1 Heckler & Koch HK94A3
• 4.1 Gun Shop

Taurus Model 66

Officer Carl "Soleman" Bentley ( David Alan Grier ) carries a blued Taurus Model 66 revolver.

Winchester 1901 Shotgun

Van Pelt ( Jonathan Hyde , in a dual role) initially comes out of the game with a modified Winchester M1901 Shotgun , but runs out of ammunition, which cannot be replenished since it hasn't been manufactured since 1903. According to a shooting draft of the film's script, this custom shotgun chambers an obsolete "6 gauge" cartridge. The Model 1901 in the film has been modified with custom furniture, a false box magazine and a large tube placed over the barrel in order to make it appear to be a large caliber elephant gun.

Daewoo USAS-12

A Daewoo USAS-12 is used by Van Pelt, who acquires it after convincing the gun shop owner to bypass the mandatory waiting period and paperwork with a bribe. It is outfitted with a B.E. Meyers Dark Invader night-vision scope, drum magazine, and suppressor.

Mossberg 500

There is a Mossberg 500 in Carl's police cruiser. Monkeys chamber a round and fire a round through the roof.

Franchi SPAS-12

Van Pelt walks past a prominently displayed Franchi SPAS-12 in the gun shop.

Submachine Guns

Heckler & koch hk94a3.

A Heckler & Koch HK94A3 is seen being worked on in the gunshop where Van Pelt acquires the USAS-12.

Several firearms are on display in the gun shop visited by Van Pelt.

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Jumanji Africa Safaris is an on-ground tour operator founded by a young, passionate innovative Geography and African history student back in 2009. We are based in Uganda and driven by the love for conservation of the rich African wildlife, culture and heritage. We endeavor to offer competitive prices while maintaining high quality safaris both in design and experience. We also specialize in customized, personal guide-led mid range and luxury itineraries, to Uganda’s most unique and diverse safari destinations. Why choose us? 1. We work with the best customer referenced safari lodges as we believe customer is always king and their views collectively are usually authentic. This is normally done through Trip Advisor and all our accommodation providers have achieved a certificate of excellence and those that haven’t, have at least 4/5 rating on Trip Advisor. 2. We know your security and safety during your stay in Uganda is paramount. Therefore we have partnered with both the best air, road and water transport service providers. Our vehicles are state of the art, fully air conditioned, serviced, inspected and well maintained before each trip. They comprise of Land Cruisers, and mini vans that have been modified with Pop Up roof for excellent game viewing and other upgrades to fit the purpose of smooth overland African Safaris. 3. We secure your payment by working with "Direct Pay Online". Direct Pay online provides a real time, cloud based processing platform, with state of the art technology that supports multiple transaction types with online and offline capabilities. The technology supports all modes of payments, all cards, mobile money, all currencies, mobile apps & card readers. The Direct Pay Online customer care team provides a single point of contact to you. Cards accepted include VISA, MasterCard, and American Express. 4.We response to your quote request within 24 hours of receipt, and timely communication thereafter. Our staff especially the Drivers/Guides are friendly, patient and skilled on how to handle guests with special needs as well as offering professional suggestions. 5. We offer medical evacuations in conjunction with Amref Flying Doctors should you sustain serious life threatening body injury while on safari in Uganda. (Amref Terms and Conditions apply) If you ever dreamed of the African Bush, Jumanji Africa Safaris will make happen

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Former Zimbabwe all-rounder Guy Whittall attacked by leopard

Guy Whittall, who runs a safari business in Humani, was attacked by a leopard but survived as his dog, Chikaram fought off the animal.

Former Zimbabwe all-rounder Guy Whittall was recently attacked by a leopard, suffering wounds on his head and hands which required surgery, but the former cricketer is now in stable condition. Guy, who runs a safari business in Humani, was attacked by a leopard on Tuesday, as per a Facebook post by his wife, Hannah. Guy fought off the leopard with the help of his dog, Chikara.

The former cricketer was later airlifted to Harare for treatment.

This is the second dangerous encounter for Whittall in the Humani reserve. In 2013, Guy found an eight-foot, 165kg Nile crocodile under his bed who had made a way to his bedroom during the night.

Whittall played 46 Tests and 147 ODIs for Zimbabwe, scoring 2207 and 2705 runs respectively between 1993 and 2003. He also has 51 wickets in Tests and 88 in ODIs.

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Ex-Zimbabwe cricketer Guy Whittall survives leopard attack, years after crocodile scare

51-year-old former zimbabwe all-rounder guy whittall underwent emergency operation after he was mauled by a leopard while hunting earlier in the week. the incident comes 11 years after he spotted a 8-foot-long crocodile under his bed..

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• 51-year-old Guy Whitall needed emergency medical attention after he was mauled by a leopard
• Guy Whitall was attacked by a wounded leopard during a hunting expedition
• Guy had found an 8-foot-long crocodile under his bed in 2013

Former Zimbabwe cricketer Guy Whittall underwent emergency surgery after being attacked by a wounded leopard while on a hunting session earlier in the week. The incident occurred in Humani, Zimbabwe's Southeast Lowveld and while Whittall was on his family game reserve, a place where he had previously encountered wild animals.

The attack happened early in the week and resulted in serious injuries for Guy Whittall, who was promptly airlifted to Harare for emergency medical treatment. His wife, Hannah Stooks-Whittall, took to Facebook to share the harrowing news with friends, family, and fans. In her post, she detailed the severity of the situation, revealing that Whittall had lost a significant amount of blood and required urgent care.

Hannah's message on social media was both a notification and a heartfelt expression of gratitude towards the medical staff at Hippo Clinic, who stabilised her husband before he could be transferred to Milton Park Hospital for further treatment. She described the overwhelming support they received: "Guy and I are overwhelmed by the hundreds of messages of well-wishers after Guy's run-in with a wounded leopard earlier today," she wrote. "We are very fortunate that he was stabilized at Hippo Clinic by wonderful staff."

• When two kids find and play a magical board game, they release a man trapped in it for decades - and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.
• Jumanji, one of the most unique--and dangerous--board games ever, falls into the hands of the curious teen, Alan Parrish, in 1969. Mysterious and magical, the game strands the unsuspecting boy in the lush, savage forests of a mythical realm. Nearly three decades later, the game releases him before the awed eyes of the young orphaned siblings, Judy and Peter Shepherd. Now, the wild and incessant beat of the jungle's tribal drums is calling for the now-adult Alan and the other hesitant players, as the one who rolls the dice must never leave undone what the roll has started. Has anyone ever escaped from the game and Jumanji's formidable foes? — Nick Riganas
• Four people begin to play a dangerous board game that has all different kinds of horrors. In order to escape the dangers, they must do everything that they can to finish the board game while trying to survive the danger that hunts them down. — RECB3
• Alan Parrish is constantly bullied by Billy Jessup and his friends after being seen with his crush, Sarah Whittle and his only friend is Carl Bentley, a factory worker at his father's shoe company. Alan is also the son of Sam and Carol Parrish, but he gets into an argument with his father one day after he plans on sending him to a private school. Alan decides to run away from his family, but he plays with a mysterious board game he has found earlier after being beat up by Billy and his friends. Sarah arrives at his home to return his bike and she plays the game with Alan. During the game, Alan ends up inside Jumanji and Sarah flees in terror after a flock of bats chase her. Twenty-six years later, Judy and Peter Shepard move into Parrish mansion with their Aunt Nora. Judy and Peter discover the Jumanji board game in the attic, but Alan is set free by Peter and he realizes that everything has changed since he was absent. In order to finish the game, Alan, Judy, and Peter must enlist Sarah's help in order to end the chaos that has endured. But the four of them must put up with a stampede of animals, giant insects, mischievous monkeys, a hungry lion, dangerous exotic plants, and a big game hunter who wants Alan's head. — dawsonpersi
• In 1969, young Alan Parrish discovers a mysterious board game called Jumanji while hiding from a gang of bullies. When he rolls the dice during his turn, he unwittingly gets sucked into the board game, thus leading everyone to conclude that he has disappeared. 25 years later, Peter and Judy Shephard play the same game and discover a grown up Alan who has been saved from the game's wildlife. Now they must work together to fight the evil forces of the jungle in order to finish the game and save themselves from mass chaos. — Blazer346
• The film begins in 1869 in the town of Brantford, New Hampshire. Two boys are seen breathlessly running with a box, which they proceed to bury in the woods. The film then cuts to a century later in Brantford. A young boy named Alan Parrish is chased by a gang of bullies and seeks refuge in his father's shoe factory. Alan encounters one of his father's employees named Carl, who has created a prototype sneaker which he feels is the future of Parrish Shoes. Alan carelessly places the prototype on a conveyor belt as he is discovered by his father. Sam Parrish chastises his son for being bullied and claims that Alan needs to stand up for himself. As Alan leaves a grinding noise is heard from one of the factory's machines. The conveyor belt upon which Alan placed the prototype sent the shoe into the machine, damaging the machine along with Carl's prototype. Sam demands to know who is responsible for the incident, and Carl takes the blame for Alan. Outside the factory, Alan is accosted by the bullies. One of them demands that Alan stay away from his girlfriend. Alan claims that he and the bully's girlfriend are 'just friends,' but this just leads to them beating up Alan and taking his bike. As Alan recovers, a strange drum beat catches his ear, and he is drawn to a construction site. Wedged in a section of ground is the box the two boys had buried a century before. Alan pulls it out, opens it up, and finds a wooden board game inside named, 'Jumanji.' That evening, Alan's parents are going out to an event. Alan's mother has told his father that there are multiple bullies and Alan's father tells Alan that he is proud of him for standing up to them as he did. However, Alan's face soon falls when his father proclaims they are sending him to a boarding school for boys. Alan grows indignant at being forced into doing something he doesn't want to do and he and his father part ways for the night in anger. Once Alan's parents leave, he attempts to pack a suitcase and run away from home. As Alan is about to walk out the front door, a knock is heard and he opens the door to find Sarah Whittle (the bully's girlfriend), who has come to return Alan's bike. The drum sounds are heard again and lead the two to the Jumanji board game. Alan sets the game up for the two of them to play but Sarah claims she's too old for board games and playfully throws down the dice. After she does so, a piece on the board moves on its own, and strange sounds are heard from the fireplace. Sarah becomes scared and tells Alan to not take his turn. Ignoring her, he rolls the dice and receives the following message: "In the jungle you must wait, until the dice read five or eight." Sarah recoils in horror as Alan is literally sucked into the game, following which scores of large bats swarm down the chimney and out through the fireplace. Sarah runs screaming from the house, slamming the door behind her. Twenty-six years later, Nora Shepherd moves into the now-vacant Parrish mansion with her niece and nephew, Judy and Peter. The children have been entrusted into Nora's care since their parents were killed while on a skiing trip. Judy has developed a penchant for concocting ridiculous lies while Peter has coped by becoming quiet and withdrawn. Judy and Peter explore the house and soon make their way to the attic, where they are spooked by a bat. This brings an exterminator to inspect the house but nothing else turns up. When Judy is shown pictures of various bats, she points out a picture of an African fruit bat. The exterminator says that a girl in the 60's claimed to have seen the same kind of bat. Before he leaves, the exterminator tells the kids a story that he believes the owner of the house murdered his son Alan, dismembered his body and hid the remains in the walls of the mansion. The next day, while Nora is out, Peter and Judy hear the tribal drum sounds, and come across the Jumanji board game in the attic. Opening it up, two game pieces magically lock into place for them. The first roll of the dice by Judy spawns giant mosquitoes, which soon fly out an open window in the attic. Peter rolls snake-eyes, which unleashes a horde of crazed monkeys in the kitchen. It is after this that Judy reads a message on the game board which states that everything will revert to normal once the game is finished. As Peter has rolled 'doubles,' he takes another turn. Peter rolls a '5,' and the two are soon shocked to find a lion in their house. Their shock soon doubles when Alan appears, now a forty-year-old man in jungle garb. Alan corrals the lion in a bedroom before thanking Judy and Peter for freeing him. When Alan asks where his parents are, Judy informs him that it is 1995 and that she, Peter and their Aunt Nora are the new owners of the house. Alan rushes outside, where he encounters Carl in a police cruiser. While Carl demands to know who Alan is, the monkeys from the kitchen hijack Carl's car and drive off in it, with Carl running behind in pursuit. Alan then rushes off, intent to find his family. Alan soon finds the Parrish Shoe Factory has been shuttered. Entering the factory, Alan comes across a homeless man who tells the group that after Alan went missing, Sam used all his time, energy and wealth to find him. When Alan asks to know where the two elder Parish's are, the homeless man directs Alan to the nearby cemetery. After visiting his parents' graves, Alan and the kids return to the mansion, where the kids attempt to get Alan to help them finish the game. However, they soon find that the game has to be played in the order of who is next. As Alan was the second person to roll the dice, followed by Judy and Peter, that means that Sarah has to roll the dice for the game to advance. Unsure where to go, the three go to the house where Sarah lived as a girl only to find psychic living there. They ask the psychic for help finding Sarah, only to find the psychic IS Sarah. After Sarah faints at the sight of Alan, Alan and the kids take her back to the mansion. Upon seeing the game board Sarah freaks out, claiming that what she 'thought' she saw (Alan being sucked into the game) was a hallucination, and that Alan's father had killed him and dismembered his body, hiding it in the walls of the mansion. Alan manages to trick Sarah into taking her turn, which unleashes a number of carnivorous plants. The group then retreats to another part of the house, where Alan takes his turn. Alan's turn summons the game's most deadly aspect--a big-game hunter from the game named Van Pelt, who has been chasing Alan for some time within the game of Jumanji. It is only when Van Pelt runs out of ammunition does he give up, going off to get more. We can tell that Jumanji has created Van Pelt by patterning him after Alan's father, Sam Parrish. He seems only interesting in hunting Alan to death and screams at him for being "a sniveling, yellow coward" for not facing Van Pelt and his gun. Once again, an exaggerated nightmare conjuring of Sam Parrish. The group next goes to the library in the mansion, where Judy's turn results in a massive stampede of animals bursting forth from the bookcase behind them. In the ensuing chaos, a large white pelican grabs the game in its beak and flies off. Alan chases after it, with the group in tow. Alan finds the pelican by a river, catches a fish and tosses it to the bird, causing it to knock the game into the river. Peter manages to retrieve the game and everyone returns to the house. However, Carl appears and takes Alan away. Once Alan is gone, Peter reveals that he has attempted to cheat by attempting to drop the dice so that he would get the number he needed to reach the end. As a result, Peter begins to morph into a monkey. In the police cruiser, Alan finally tells Carl who he is and Carl attempts to get Alan back to Judy, Peter and Sarah. Meanwhile, the three have been found again by Van Pelt (now having acquired a Daewoo USAS-12 (automatic shotgun). The chase leads the group into the heart of the town where the animal stampede almost kills Peter. Van Pelt finds Peter trapped in a crushed car and wrestles the game away from him, then heads for a discount store. Van Pelt intends to trap Sarah and use her as bait along with the game to lure Alan to him. Alan and Carl eventually do find them at the store. Carl's vehicle crashes through the front of the store, burying Van Pelt in an avalanche of paint cans. The group returns to the house, only to find the carnivorous plants have taken over the interior. The next turn causes a monsoon to flood the main floor of the house and the group to be chased by a large crocodile. Everyone heads for the attic, where Sarah takes her turn, and the floor turns to quicksand, almost swallowing Alan. Judy rolls the dice, freezing the floor, saving Alan from being swallowed up by the floor. Peter rolls next and some large spiders suddenly appear. Judy attempts to fight them off, but accidentally finds one of the plants, which shoots her with a poisonous barb. Sarah takes her turn, resulting in an earthquake that splits the Parrish house in two. Alan is freed and falls through the floor, along with the game. Alan manages to recover the game and is about to take his turn when Van Pelt appears. Alan drops the dice. Van Pelt encourages Alan to run, but Alan declares that he won't run anymore and will face his fears. As he says this, the dice finish their roll and Alan's piece reaches the center of the board. Van Pelt asks Alan for his last words. After Alan calls out the name of the game, all the creatures and animals are sucked back into the game (including Van Pelt himself), as Alan and Sarah embrace each other and close their eyes. When they open them again, they find themselves back in the parlor of Alan's house in 1969. A sound is heard nearby as Sam Parrish returns to get a forgotten speech. Alan quickly rushes to hug his father and apologizes for what he said before his father left. Sam apologizes as well and decides not to send him away. He also takes responsibility for Carl's prototype sneaker becoming lodged in the factory machine. After Sam leaves, Alan panics about Judy and Peter. Sarah reminds him that they don't yet exist. The two then take the game, weight it down, and toss it into a nearby river. Sarah then tells Alan that it feels like the memories of their adventure are waning and decides to kiss him for the bravery he showed. The epilogue of the film returns us to the year 1995. Alan and Sarah have married and are expecting their first child. A Christmas party is being held at the Parrish mansion, and Alan is speaking by phone to his father as he and Alan's mother are away on a vacation. Carl is present at the party. Alan and Sarah have also invited Judy and Peter and their parents to the party (though the kids have no idea of the previous adventures). Alan and Sarah are eager to provide Judy and Peter's father with an advertising position with the Parrish Shoe company. However both of the parents feel they should wait to accept until after they take a planned skiing trip in the Canadian Rockies. Alan and Sarah, in unison, shriek, "NO!" The film ends with a pair of French girls walking along a beach, wondering about a strange drum beat they both hear. Buried in the sand several yards in front of them is the Jumanji board game, preparing to claim its next players.

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