Jumanji - Nostalgia Critic 

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I always saw it that the reason they had the same actor playing Van Pelt and Alan's father is because Van Pelt is basically a caricature of how Alan viewed his father; painfully old fashioned and forever hounding him about "manning up" and not being strong enough. It's only after Alan finds the strength to stand up to Van Pelt that he also finds the strength to potentially face his father's anger and tell him that he was the one who put the shoe on tbe conveyer belt.

No joke; my favorite line in the film is "Twenty-six years buried in the deepest darkest jungle, and I still became my father."

Its funny that the sequel involving 18 year olds was more light hearted than the one with kids

Rest in peace, Robin Williams. He gave heart and soul to this movie, and it wouldn't have been the same without him as Alan. Also, it's crazy just how dark this movie is and how deep its message is. Honestly, when Alan realized the truth about his dad, and how much he loved him, I cried. Another reason why this is superior to the new ones.

1:55 Here's a fan theory: it's not yet a board game in the flashback but a pulp adventure novel. Jumanji updates itself to reflect what was popular entertainment at the time. Hence it later becoming a video game.

Hunter Van Pelt: [leveling his gun at Alan] End of the line, Sonny Jim. Game's up. Start running. Alan Parrish: [as Sarah runs into the room] No... Hunter Van Pelt: Aren't you afraid? Alan Parrish: I'm terrified. But my father says you should always face what you're afraid of. I always remember that scene, ever since i saw this as a kid. It stayed with me. Thank you, Robin.

The scene where Robin Williams gets stuck in the floor scared the shit out of me as a kid

Fun Fact: Joe Johnston had reservations over casting Robin Williams because of the actor's reputation for improvisation, fearing that he wouldn't adhere to the script. However, Williams understood that it was "a tightly structured story" and generally filmed the scenes as outlined in the script, but where he was allowed to improvise (usually in scenes with Bonnie Hunt) he would often film duplicate scenes.

I'm from Keene, New Hampshire (the town where this movie was filmed) and we still have the Parrish shoe sign. When Williams passed away, there was a whole sigil made at that location and it was there for over a year.

16:42 It was at this moment that Steven Spielberg suddenly realized, “Damn! THIS is what Hook was missing! I had all the ingredients to have this very same moment of Robin Williams wrestling a giant crocodile, and I somehow missed it!” 🤦‍♂️😅

Fun Fact: The reason why Jonathan Hyde played both Van Pelt and Sam Parrish is because it's an allegory of Alan Parrish's fears of his dad who told him to stand up for yourself and fight like a man back in 1969 when he was at the shoe factory.

Despite a mixed critical rating, I always thought this movie was great

A Music Fact: During the Christmas party scene at the end, the guests gather around the piano and sing "Hark the Herald Angels Sing." it's an homage to the closing scene in It's a Wonderful Life (1946), a fantasy about a protagonist dissatisfied with his life who finds a reality where everything has turned out badly due to his absence, and so learns to appreciate his life more.

I showed this to my girls, age 11 and 9, last year. They loved it. They were scared, thrilled, laughing. They had way bigger reactions to it than to most modern movies they've watched. It came off as much more real to them than I expected, since it's older and the effects are older. But they apparently found it much more convincing than newer movies. Maybe that was partly just the great performances.

Weirdly what I remember most from this movie is 16:34 "FIINE!! TAKE IT!!!" 😄I've quoted Bentley so many times when I've have a bad day lol

The main problem I have with the newer the Rock Jumanji movies is that they don't have the same tone as the original. Robin Williams's character described the Jumanji jungle as the most terrifying place imaginable, like a place found only in your worst nightmares where everything is trying to kill you, but the recent movies made it look like it was just regular Africa. Plus a lot of the classic monsters are missing. The mutated plants, giant spiders, deadly disease mosquitoes, etc.

Aladdin was my intro to Robin Williams as a voice acting, while Jumanji introduced me to his live-action acting

I think there's more to the casting of the Hunter than you may have noticed. Several times, he'll say lines like "Face me like a man, Alan!" The fact that it's the same actor who plays Alan's father gives the movie a kind of subtext where its not just about beating the game, but also about Alan finally facing his father/responsiblity. Maybe its just me, but this how I've always seen it. Also, the scene where the homeless man tells Alan that his disappearence drove his dad just short of crazy (Alan had planned to run away from home before he and Sara started playing the game) gets me everytime. RIP Robin Williams

I still get emotional during the scene when he meets the homeless man and he tells him how his father just stopped caring after losing his son 😢. So many great films from 1993-95 have so much heart to them that it makes a lot of the early 2000’s, particularly 2001 films look unpleasant by comparison. This and Mrs. Doubtfire are two of my favorite Williams performances and this also might be my favorite Bonnie Hunt performance, I love her voice in A Bug’s Life and Cars

It was this movie and Casper that really made me appreciate James Horner as a composer. Both movies have such a haunted quality that I really appreciate. And there's just something wholesome about the father and son relationship between the Parish family that really made appreciate all my dad does for me. It's nostalgic and magical and I don't regret owning the board game based off the movie and owning the trilogy of the franchise.

Are we gonna ignore Kirsten Dunst getting shot on the neck by poisonous barbs from that purple flower? I assume she dies in that timeline before Alan wins the game.

RIP Robin Williams. Hollywood’s funniest actor next to Jim Carrey.

Also James Horner who composed this film did a Brilliant job making Jumanji Feel terrifying yet adventurous. The scene when grown Alan runs through his hometown after his twenty six year entrapment in Jumanji is a Beautiful piece of music.

The scene where young Alan gets sucked into the game really used to freak me out as a kid. Its only recently I noticed that he screams "Sarah! Roll the dice!" as he's being drawn in, which kind of makes me angry that Sarah just ran off when one roll of the Dice could have saved him.

I remember watching Jumanji on VHS when I was a young kid back then. I've watched it a couple of times. I remember Robin Williams, David Alan Grier and Kirsten Dunst in the movie. But I never knew that Laura Bell Bundy as young Sarah and Melissa Clarkson as Alan's mother was in it as well. Plus, I love the ending of the movie where Alan finally stands up to Van Pelt, the game finally ends, Alan and Sarah are back in 1969, Alan apologizes to his father for the incident at the factory, Alan and Sarah throw the game away into the river, fast forward to their present selves celebrating Christmas and seeing Judy and Peter again.

Another Fun Fact: The Sir-Save-A-Lot sequence was shot in Tsawwassen, British Columbia, at what was then the open-air Delta Fair Mall. The store had been Liquidation World before it closed. At the time of filming, the store was vacant, and although the exterior was repaired after the movie was shot, the store never re-opened. The mall has since been redeveloped, with Safeway the anchor tenant until 2016, when Safeway closed and was replaced by Save-On Foods. The Liquidation World in the old mall was along the west perimeter of the new mall, which is now a parking lot.

Rest in peace Robin Williams, you defined many a Childhood.

Jumanji: One of my favorite childhood movies and one of Robin Williams’ best.

I always thought there should be a movie about Alan arriving in Jumanji and learning to survive.

13:24 NC: "Anyone else see...?" Me: All I'm seeing is a perfect opportunity for a "feed me, Seymour" joke that you're failing to take advantage of.

To quote the late great Norm MacDonald and something i'm sure sure Kirsten Dunst might be thinking about is "Being alive is great, you can eat at Denny's, you can wear a hat whenever you want to, it's wonderful."

Some Casting Facts: Tom Hanks was the first choice to play Alan Parrish but declined due to his commitments to Apollo 13 (1995). Colin Hanks appears as an adult Alex Vreeke in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017). also Bruce Willis was considered for the role of Alan Parrish. But due to him shooting Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995), he was unavailable. and Tim Curry had discussions for the part of Van Pelt. He would later voice Trader Slick in Jumanji (1996). and Kim Cattrall, Jamie Lee Curtis, Julia Roberts, Jodie Foster, Sandra Bullock, Madonna, Demi Moore, Michelle Pfeiffer, Meg Ryan, Sharon Stone, Jennifer Tilly, Lea Thompson, Jane Leeves, Joan Cusack, Daryl Hannah, Helen Hunt, Julianne Moore, Heather Locklear, Sharon Lawrence, Kelly Preston, Teri Hatcher, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Jennifer Grey, Rebecca De Mornay and Courtney Thorne-Smith were all considered for the role of Sarah Whittle. while also Tim Allen, Dan Aykroyd, Jeff Bridges, Alec Baldwin, Bruce Campbell, Nicolas Cage, Chevy Chase, Bryan Cranston, Kevin Costner, Billy Crystal, Robert De Niro, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton, Rupert Everett, Richard Dreyfuss, Harrison Ford, Andy Garcia, Richard Gere, Mel Gibson, John Goodman, Steve Guttenberg, Woody Harrelson, Michael Keaton, Kevin Kline, Steve Martin, Bill Murray, Sean Penn, Gary Oldman, Rick Moranis, Dennis Quaid, Kurt Russell, Martin Sheen, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone and John Travolta were considered for Alan Parrish.

Another Fun Fact: Realtor Mrs. Thomas's car is a blue Chrysler LeBaron convertible with 1987-89 interior features, which Alan, Peter, and Judy steal to return to the Parrish mansion. The control panel is modified to have the roof switch next to the A/C controls as Alan fumbles around with the car's interior features. In reality, the Chrysler LeBaron convertibles manufactured for 1987-95 model years had the roof switches located on the center console behind the gear shift when shipped from the factory post-manufacturing.

I’m glad critic pointed out that some of Jumanji feels like a horror movie, I’m sure I wasn’t the only kid who got creeped out by some parts of this movie

I'm always annoyed by people who slam the effects in Jumanji. It is incredibly obvious that they were NEVER meant to be taken as realistic. The animals have a very stylized look that mimics the wooden pieces or drawings in a book. I don't know if this was the original plan or if they just realized that realism wasn't going to be possible for them with the tech an budget they had, but whatever the case, The chimps aren't meant to look real. The pelican is probably easier to see the resemblance in because he's got that big shiny beak, but the issue has never been that the effects were "bad." They were a specific artistic choice. I got this the first time around, in the movie theater when I was 16. I'm not sure why so many people seem to not see the very obvious "animals that look like wooden pieces/drawings" and get hung up on "those animals don't look real." No. They don't. Now try seeing them for what they are rather than what you seem to think they should have been.

Another Fun Fact: David Alan Grier's character (Bentley) is a police officer. In the movie, Bentley gets handcuffed to the police car. In 2021 David Alan Grier played the role of Vern Dunnegan in the series Joe Pickett. His character is a retired game warden (state police officer) and in the last episode of season one he gets handcuffed to the interior of a police vehicle, but this time it's a game warden truck.

This, Matilda, The Neverending Story, Indian in the Cupboard & Harriet the Spy were my entire childhood lol watched them all over and over and over again on VHS

Disclaimer: Bentley does not drop the bomb, he yells "FINE!! TAKE IT!!!" but the edit in the review is perfect! lol

Cant say that I agree here. I LOVE the original Jumanji! It has been one of my favorites ever since I was a kid. I always liked most of the effects (especially compared to back then AND today), the acting was great, the message worked and it got me in the just right kind of "stressed" as a kid. To me this is one the best kids or young adult adventure movies!

I don't know what you're talking about, this movie is amazing. One of my favorites as a kid. I've watched it a ton. And yeah, maybe the CGI doesn't stand up, fair enough, but that baby rhino at the end of the stampede kills me every time. And I was so glad, when the did the next movie, they added an homage to this movie, where you see remnants of Alan's stay in the jungle at the hideout. I don't know, I just always felt like there was something special about this movie.

The scene with Robin Williams running through the town & James Horner’s score plays is my favorite scene.

I remember watching the Jumanji cartoon by Klasky Csupo with Bill Fagerbakke as Alan, where instead of the jungle coming out, the kids get sucked in and only Alan hasn't figured out how to leave. The wildest thing about it is that for a kids' show from the 90s that set up an ongoing plot, this was one of the few to actually get a proper ending.

Were you in a hurry for this review, Doug ? The pace is REALLY fast, and I think you jumped many points and interesting moments of the movie. Good or bad, but interesting anyway. Btw : I love this movie. My favourite live movie as a kid, I still love it.

They put a reference to Alan in the 2017 version, but I don't buy for a second that they were the same jungle, like the 1995 one felt like it was an 1800s British explorer's jungle horror story and the 2017 version is a far cry game.

Another Fun Fact: The building on the Brantford police department logo on Carls car and jacket appears to be the Parrish Shoe Factory, which would make sense considering it's implied that the factory is what built the town and the local economy.

This movie’s reputation seems similar to ones like the Brendan Fraser Mummy, where generally speaking it wasn’t very well liked but there’s a select group of people who see it as a childhood classic

Every time NC says Alan, the raptor from Jurassic Park pops into my head.

The smartest part of the movie which most people don't realize is van pelt is Allan's self reflection of his fear. What he says in the end hits harder because Allan isn't running anymore and is facing and standing up to van pelt who is a psychological representation of his father.

I deeply love this film. Everyone it was on TV I was glued on the screen rewatching it. There’s just something just so fascinating about the idea of the dangers of the board game coming to life. It made Jumanji seem mysterious and scary not knowing what would come out next, along with the brief anecdotes of being in the jungle . The themes of facing your fears and father/son trauma hits harder as an adult. I myself had a rocky relationship with my father growing up, so it was relatable seeing all that anger and resentment over someone you cared so deeply for and didn’t appreciate until it was too late. To to it off you also have James Horner fantastic musical score that adds soo much heart to the film. The music that plays when Alan runs around the town when he gets back is a great example of this. Such a wonderful track.

No Nostalgia Critic, it's not a Hotel Movie. It's a family movie. I love this movie. Good memories of watching it with my mother as a kid. And later on with my sisters. And now with my nephew ^^ It's fun, it's adventerous. And the reason her reaction is so fun is because it's so genuine. That's exactly how my mother reacts when she spots a spider! Disappointed you didn't show the reaction to " _It's me, Alan._ ", that's hilarious too xD

This film is still one of my favorites due to the nostalgia. I only noticed when I was watching it a few months ago, that Van Pelt was his father. It personally added so much more to the movie for me and the message.

I like when Doug reviews comedy classics of the 90s/2000s but at the same tiime it shows so much he is/was not the right demographic for the movie (which is people from 6-15), it was a really good movie and with the budget you really cannot expect better CGI

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Even though Alan never realized that Van Pelt, the hunter meant to make him feel "just like a child," was his father, it's still a great metaphor for the audience. Beyond that, for the twenty-six years Alan spent in Jumanji, learning how to survive on his own and dealing with all of those nightmares he warns Peter about, the one thing that *still* made him cower in fear was his father.

I'll always adore the original Jumanji. Screw the remakes; the original is a classic and always will be!

To me, when it came out. it was ground breaking. Pun intended. It's the movie that's running on cable over and over again. People say it's bad. But it's addicting. Every time it's on you just want to watch till the end, despite watched it countless time. I remember loving the animal running across. The big ass mosquitoes scary me way more than those spiders. And also the scene that Robin Williams character learned how time passed and his parents are dead will never not get me emotional.

I can remember getting scared of the killer flower and vines consuming the police car scenes as a little kid, and it took me a long while for me to rewatch and enjoy the movie better when I was older. I don't know why they scared me so much, but I guess it was because the way they moved was uncanny valley vibes... 0_0

Aha, this was filmed in my hometown Keene NH. My family moved here a couple months after all the shooting was done. The "Parish Shoes" painted sign is still on the wall downtown and for weeks after Robin Williams died there would be copies of the movie and candles set in front of it in honor of his passing.

The actress playing young Sarah is Laura Bell Bundy who would later star in the Broadway Musical adaptation of Legally Blonde where she played Elle Woods

6:50 No, I draw the line at making fun of the lion! 🧐 Apart from maybe the crocodile or the man-eating plant, the lion was the best effect of the movie!

I legit thought this was an old video. I smiled so hard like "im in the mood for this". caught that 1 hour sign right before going in full screen and almost lost my mind. I love this damn guy with the glasses.

15:30 (ish) You show part of the store home alone style shenanigans with Van Pelt and DIDN'T show the hilarious high-pitched screaming while getting shot across the store in a canoe bit?! That part gets me every time 😂

This was one of the first movies my dad got me to watch as a kid. I can remember it so vividly since I saw it so many times.

I have a speculation on Jumanji. It started as an initiation ritual that begins with a spell designed to adapt to the individual, similar to the dark side tree in Star Wars Episode V. Overtime it had to adapt which is how it became a board game, and eventually a video game modernising itself again and again. Also, I recommend the cartoon series if you ahven't watched it. It get's dark.

19:11 Does this mean we'll finally be getting a review of SUPERMAN III? Please?🤞

They found Jumanji underneath a game called Kimbo, for those who couldn't read it as it went by really fast.

13:02 One of my favorite little moments in the movie! 😁

Jumanji will always have a very special place in my heart. A whole chunk of it was filmed in my hometown. (Keene, NH) It was the biggest thing to happen there at the time, for sure. The Parish Shoes sign is still painted on the brick building in town! My mom got to be one of the extras running away in the stampede. Just one of those little blonde haired blurs on the screen, but she's there! lol God, I love Robin Williams. He's one of those that still really hurts to think about losing. RIP

One Last Couple of Facts: In the scene where realtor Mrs. Thomas is being loaded onto the ambulance, notice the different in footwear between shots. When she's being taken out of her car, she had on green lace-up boots, but is instead wearing black high-heeled shoes when being loaded onto the ambulance. This is likely due to actress Gillian Barber complaining that she wasn't comfortable wearing the boots and asked the movie's costume department to consider better options for footwear. David Alan Grier and Bonnie Hunt would later star in Return to Me (2000), David Alan Grier previously appeared in Tales from the Hood (1995), which he ironically portrayed Carl the abusive stepfather the same year he did this movie, Trailer narrated by Hal Douglas, Bradley Pierce provided the voice of Miles 'Tails' Prower, sidekick of Sonic the Hedgehog in Sonic the Hedgehog (1993) which is based on a video game, The probability of rolling a 5 or an 8 is 1/4 or 25%, When Judy and Peter find the Jumanji board game in the attic, it is next to another board game: Password, which was based on a TV show, Password (1961). Password was played by two teams of two people: one person had a mystery word and the other person had to guess what it was, with only a limited number single-word clues to assist, Van Pelt's appearance is very similar to that of Grandpa Potts, from "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.", Gary Joseph Thorup, who played the bully Billy Jessup, had only one other acting credit throughout his life. He appeared on Wannabe (1995), in which he ironically plays a bullying victim, Alan Parrish makes a joke about the board game "Clue". The game itself was adapted into a film Clue (1985) starring Tim Curry, who would later play Trader Slick in Jumanji (1996), Robin Williams and Bradley Pierce both starred in Disney movies that released in adjacent years. Pierce played Chip in Beauty and the Beast (1991) and Williams played Genie in Aladdin (1992) and Robin Williams was 10 years older than Bonnie Hunt (although their characters were children together). Adam Hann-Byrd (Young Alan) is a year younger than Laura Bell Bundy (Young Sarah). also The music heard on the radio while Van Pelt is in the gun shop (the Mexican national anthem in the U.S. release) is from a Berliner Gramophone disc record performed by John Philip Sousa's Band, recorded April 7, 1898. and When Judy and Peter find the game in the attic, there are several other board games stacked around and on top of it: the oldest is Monopoly, introduced in 1935. The others are Clue (1949), Careers (1955), Kimbo (1960), Password (1962) and Probe (1964).

This is one of those episodes where Doug’s trying way too hard to find critical things to say just for the sake of the video. Sorry but this is just a great, fun movie that 99% of the population considers a classic. The characters are well-written and the story is fun, coherent and loaded with just the right amount of emotion, adventure and laughter. Deal with it Doug! 😂

I have a nostalgic place in my heart for this film. Watching this with my family. This was the first time I'd ever heard my dad laugh

I actually liked that scene between Peter and Alan. These are just my feelings on it, but I like to imagine that Alan lived in fear most of his life in a scary, dark jungle, avoiding Van Pelt like the plague. So to show Alan trying to be a stern father figure to Peter (because that's the only fatherly type he'd known before he was sucked into the game), but ultimately showing empathy for Peter's emotions, says a lot about Alan's character. And then when Peter reveals that it's really his newly grown tail that's bothering him, I remember the entire movie theater audience chuckling at that bit, so it was a nice comedic moment to tie in at the end of the softer part of the movie.

I felt like this was a great movie when it came out, but I was also on the Robin Williams fan train at the time, too. As a child born in 1981, I only had some vague familiarity with Mork & Mindy which kinda preceded my time but also had some rerun spillovers for me to know about it and find him funny. I remember he was in Dead Poets Society and Awakenings, which as a 9-year old I thought were important movies. Then we had Hook, Aladdin (and I guess Fern Gully), Toys & Mrs Doubtfire. When Jumanji came out I was all-in, and TBF Robin does bring the most to the table, but this is adventure Robin,and not comedy Robin, so depending on which kind of Robin mood you're in, this may or may not hit the spot. Still, I liked this in 1995 and I still like this version today - I think it's a solid 'family' film.

I’ve come to see this movie as being a film that is really about a boy becoming an adult and learning how to deal with life’s hardships. Think about it. Alan found the game when he was just ten years old and was having trouble handling a group of bullies of which his father told him he had to face as his dad Sam, knew that he wasn’t always going to be able to run to him for comfort. And it was only after that did Alan find the game. It was like the game knew that Alan needed to learn that lesson. And after Alan’s return, he was made to face huge changes and challenges including the fact that his parents had died not knowing what had happened to him, but still loving him. And the fact that the game was trying to help Alan learn that lesson is even more evident with the character of Van Pelt. Van Pelt has some of the most interesting lines in regards to Alan especially during their final encounter especially with the line “You’re finally acting like a man.” It’s like the game is verbalizing what it needs to say through Van Pelt and choose to model him after Sam Parish in order to help Alan. -side note- have heard theories about Van Pelt secretly being Sam. Wouldn’t be surprised if this were true in an earlier screenplay version.

(puts on spectacles) We are led to believe that Alan Parish learned many harsh lessons while trapped in the jungles of Jumanji...but none were probably more cruel than being hunted by an adversary wearing his father's face. In this sadistic twist on the classic "The Most Dangerous Game", Alan was not only running from the subconscious manifestation of the fear & anxiety he felt towards his father...he was fleeing from his teachings; that the world is sometimes cruel, and you must take a stand if you wish to endure it. A father casts a long shadow to a son. This wisdom of his father came from a place of love; but Alan interpreted this as disappointment & shame. But in Alan's isolation, being so far from family...he yearned for his father's love nonetheless; and had come to understand too late what his father truly meant. When Alan tried to emulate his father's teachings towards Peter; it came from a place of trauma...he DID learn his father's lesson; and he wanted to share that with Peter. ...but it's because that Peter had lost his parents without being able to reconcile things left unsaid; that Alan realized too late that they were the same: boys forced to become men through pain, and heartache, and loss. I like that the "teachings" of the father still had merit...but also that the father figures realized that compassion had it's place, too.

Boy this movie was a lot of fun when I first watched it on DVD a few years ago. Surprisingly, (if I said already said it before) I watched Zathura first before discovering Jumanji. Back then, my love for both of them was really for the board games themselves and lead me to actually owning the home versions. But heck, today I actually own two versions of the Jumanji games. Now a days, I really care about the story it's telling and I definitely praise this for making it come to life. And of course our dear Robin Williams will always be missed but never forgotten.

I was 8 when this film came out and a cousin and I absolutely loved it. We talked about Jumanji all the time. We were also really big animal lovers and since I was young up to now, always wanted to go to Africa. I think we were around the perfect age for that movie. I've always looked back fondly on it, and I even remember in elementary school, the librarian asked my opinion on how to decorate the library Jumanji style bc it was a big movie kids liked at the time. I felt very proud. This movie also helped solidify my love for Robin Williams. ❤May he rest in peace.

Jumanji was 1 of the 2 Robin Williams movies I grew up with, along with Aladdin. While his role wasn't as comedic as the Genie, Williams did an amazing job, & really showed his range of acting. May he rest in piece, & always remembered. Also, I can't be the only person who went almost 30 years of occasional watches of this movie, & never realized that Peter was played by Chip from Beauty and the Beast.

Most of Jumanji was filmed near my hometown! They still have a mural of Parrish Shoes on a downtown building, where people sometimes come to pay their respects to Robin Williams

This was filmed in my home state New Hampshire! There's still a Parrish Shoe mural on one of the walls in down town Keene NH, I remember people brought flowers there when Robin Williams died.

I remember enjoying the animated series as a kid. It was interesting how they changed the rules of the game where instead of things coming out of the game and the pieces move on the board, you get sucked into the world of Jumanji which is the real game, and to win you have to solve the riddle set for you in the center of the board ( as well as survive) or be trapped in there forever. The kids feel they will truly win if they rescue Allan (who never got to read his riddle) which they try to do every episode. I did feel a bit dissapointed with the newer movies as the world of Jumanji wasn't as dark & twisted as depicted in the cartoon.

I never realized this was received poorly until now lol my family won the DVD in a contest when I was a kid and my brother and I watched it constantly. To this day, its the first movie I think of when I think of Robin Williams and my favorite of his films. Even hearing the music in this after he died was enough to make me cry.

I have only a vague memory of seeing a part of this movie as a kid. All I can remember is two kids looking at a board game and a lion roar coming from it. And I remember being super scared by it. When I finally got around to watching it as an adult, there was definitely a lot more than I remembered, but there was still some of that creepy feeling that I remembered. Just the drum beats coming from the game are straight up panic inducing. However, I was a bit disappointed by the Home Alone slapstick. Otherwise, a very solid adaptation of an awesome and slightly creepy kid's book. The sequel is fun, but the first one is a true work of art.

An underrated 90s gem starring Robin Williams and one of the best children's book movies from the same author of The Polar Express!

This isn't just a "good movie" this is a perfect movie. Or at least as close as I can ever expect a movie to be perfect. It's kinda sad that Hollywood just cannot make movies like this any more, this perfect blend of comedy, action, horror and drama. Robin WIlliams is perfect as a kid who didn't really grow up, and Bonnie Hunt is such a perfect foil. The almost fruedian themes of Van Pelt being played by the same actor as Alan's father is just such a fantastic turn, the escalation and dynamic development of the stakes is just brilliant. Screenwriters and directors need to take a long hard look at this, realize the truly unique talent they had which was able to work into something truly unique.

I like how the CGI looks really fake (always has) because it just adds to the fantasy for me - really drives home that Jumanji isn't a real jungle, but is a fantasy land of uncanny valley horrors. Makes it more fun. Idea for another show: Ever see the Jumanji cartoon? There was a cartoon series of this. I used to love it. It completely ignores the ending of the film and features Alan as trapped in the jungle over a riddle he was never able to solve and had forgotten. I believe that Alan was voiced by the same voice who did Patrick Star (but is a much more intelligent character, it's just.. you can hear that voice). The kids could go back and forth between the real world and Jumanji once they solved their turns, but Alan was trapped and everyone was on a mission to try to find out how to get him out. The cartoon was pretty hardcore for the '90s, too. Van Pelt was vicious and shots of the interior of his home were full of animal trophies and if you look carefully, blink and you'll miss it... he had kid-heads on his wall.

This movie scared the shit out of me. The giant plant that almost eats the kid, the huge spiders that just show up to freak everyone out--they had no right to destroy my fragile prepubescent sleep schedule.

For New Years Eve 2020, my partner and I watched this movie and timed it so Robin Williams said “Jumanji” at the end of the movie at midnight to go back and set the year right. It didn’t work, but it was worth a try.

I still have it. A blank VHS. It's a pirated copy with a single voice translation. A voice familiar to everyone from my country who grew up in the 90s. Last year I was wondering if my VCR still worked and played it. Best rainy evening I've had in a long time.

I actually find a lot of nuisance to this film the older I've gotten (being born in 1994). The game for example, it's a lot like the puzzle box of Hellraiser. So simple and innocent looking but releases a hell from with. The puzzle box however claims those looking for it's hidden secrets where as the game board will take ANY roll as intended, making it more dangerous and 'evil' in my eyes. There is also the fact the rules can't be read without turning the board. That seems random but again, I find it intentional to the games mission. Everyone reads the introduction as it facing them right away. The rules however are on the opposite side and upside down, making people less inclined to see them and read them before playing. A cleaver way to trap unsuspecting kids into it's hold. And finally, there is the fact our hunter is played by Alan's father actor. In Peter Pan, it was always custom for the same actor to play Mr. Darling (father) and Captain Hook. I again think it's intentional that Alan spent his life running from the image of his father despite growing up in a literal deadly jungle. He can wrestle a crocodile without hesitant or face off with a lion but a man with a gun still makes him run in terror or freeze. It's only at the end he stands up to him, like a man. I find that pretty cleaver writing to show how Alan realized he does need to stand up for himself and face his greatest fear, his own father. Afterwards, he has no issue as a child again talking to his father and telling him what he wants. Perhaps I'm grasping but I find all this subtext rather cleaver and a theme of mental trauma as nearly every character suffers from it. Peter doesn't talk. Judy is a compulsive liar (even trying to lie to Alan at the graveyard, showing it might just be second nature now), Alan has trauma and either fights or runs. Sarah has trauma, sees a therapist and tries to rationalize everything in order to process it. Even Judy and Peters aunt is listening to self help tapes in her car as we can hear "remember, situations are never outside of your control". All in all, it's a gem of a movie in my humble eyes and one I've never outgrown. Only found more and more appreciation for

Family favorite film right here. One of the parts that terrified us the most was when Alan first gets sucked into the game. I knew I'd become old when I overheard my students talking about the new Jumanji films and had no idea about this one when I asked them about it.😢

Fun fact the town center was filmed in Keene NH and the logo for Parrish shoes is still there when robin williams passed a away the town put a candle lit vigil for him at the location

Me as a kid watching Alien, Egzorcist and other horror movies: Nad, time for a nap. Me as a kid watching Jumanji: What if there’s a lion ine the shadow?

Seeing this for the first time in over *20 years,* I notice how sad I felt when I saw the grave stone of the parents. When I was a kid I didn't think too much about it, but now it left an impact.

I watched this last year and when Robin Williams yelled "I'M BACK!" I got chills. God I miss him. RIP.

7:22 I feel it's pretty obvious that Jumanji has utter control of the game, including all of the people involved. All comvient coincidences can basically be excused as Jumanji's will.

In Puerto Rico they play this movie every year on channel 4.

This one's an all-time classic in my book. It's also It's a Wonderful Life: It starts out in the hero’s childhood, and he’s brought to a timeline where his absence has digressed his hometown. When the timeline corrects, his lip is bleeding, and his story ties up at a Christmas party also attended by his wife where “Hark the Harold Angels Sing” is played.

I've gotta say, you are one of the few people who's ads I watch all the way through.