History Film / JumanjiWelcomeToTheJungle

** When Bethany respawns after being eaten alive by a hippo, she mistakenly calls it a rhino before Fridge corrects her. The group have to deal with a rhino stampede after stealing the helicopter from the transportation shed.

* HeroesWantRedheads: Spencer doesn't realize Martha has a crush on him until Fridge outright tells him, and then it's revealed Spencer is into Martha too.

** Averted for when Alex and Spencer are shown playing video games, and they're actual video games appropriate to the time period. Alex is playing ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' in 1996, and Spencer is playing ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' in 2017, and they're using Playstation controllers to play (this movie ''was'' made by Sony, after all). The console that Alex pops the Jumanji cartridge into isn't any real console, but this is likely intention in the name of BlandNameProduct; the console's appearance still matches the aesthetics of numerous early '80s consoles, such as wood grain paneling and large controller ports.

** Spencer plays ''Street Fighter V'' on a Platform/PlayStation4 and his room is covered with posters for games like ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'' and ''VideoGame/TheLastGuardian'', both of which are Playstation exclusives. Ruby Roundhouse's {{Leitmotif}} is also played on a Sony boombox. Alex Vreeke is also playing a [=Playstation=] 1 in the 1996 prologue. Have we mentioned this movie was made by [[Creator/SonyPictures Sony]] yet?

* CompanyCrossReferences: Several references to Sony products appear throughout the film. For example, Spencer plays ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' on a UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and has posters of ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'' and ''VideoGame/TheLastGuardian'' in his room, both of which are [=PlayStation=] exclusives. Bethany's phone is also Sony-branded, probably an Xperia.

* MorphicResonance: The game console form Jumanji takes is not too dissimilar from an old UsefulNotes/Atari2600 with wood-paneling and a large gemstone attached to the top of the machine. The game's original form was a wooden board game with that same gemstone embedded in the center of the board.

** Spencer plays ''Street Fighter V'' on a UsefulNotes/PlayStation4 and his room is covered with posters for games like ''VideoGame/Uncharted4AThiefsEnd'' and ''VideoGame/TheLastGuardian'', both of which are Playstation exclusives. Ruby Roundhouse's {{Leitmotif}} is also played on a Sony boombox. Alex Vreeke is also playing a [=Playstation=] 1 in the 1996 prologue. Have we mentioned this movie was made by [[Creator/SonyPictures Sony]] yet?

* TheBreakfastPlot: The four main characters, and how they are brought together, are very reminiscent of ''Film/TheBreakfastClub''. Spencer is a nerd, Fridge is a JerkJock, Bethany is a PhoneaholicTeenager with traces of the AlphaBitch, and Martha is a ShrinkingViolet. They all knew ''of'' each other before, but only Spencer and Fridge knew each other personally, and they all end up meeting doing the same detention. They're then forced to work together, first in the detention and then in Jumanji, if they are to get out of the game alive. ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' is further referenced with the principal telling the four that they should think about who they are and who they want to be, much like Vernon does, and tells them that if they don't finish removing the magazine staples for their detention in one day, they have to come back on Saturday (the day ''Film/TheBreakfastClub'' takes place on).

* ShamelessFanserviceGirl: Bethany tells Martha she once wore a bikini to school. [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome It got her sent to the principal's office]].

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** The offenses that got the four teens detention in the first place [[TruthInTelevision are considered punish-worthy in real-life schools]]:
*** Bethany gets detention for video-chatting on her phone ''during a quiz'' in class. Phones are banned in classrooms because they tend to be very distracting in school environments (and also because they are an easy way to cheat); the video-chat was clearly disturbing the focus of the other students, and her teacher points out that just because ''Bethany'' was finished with the quiz, it didn't mean that she could act like the others weren't there.
*** Martha gets detention for [[ThatCameOutWrong accidentally insulting Coach Webb]] and refusing to participate in gym class. In the former case, rudeness towards teachers, even when accidental, isn't tolerated in schools. In the latter case, regardless of whether or not it's your least-favorite subject, refusing to participate and skipping out on a required class has consequences.
*** Spencer and Fridge get detention for cheating when Fridge's teacher (who was Spencer's teacher the previous year) notices how the two essays utilized the same metaphor, and realizes Spencer has been doing Fridge's homework for him, then reports it to the principal. Schools tend to take cheating ''very'' seriously; Fridge gets booted off the football team, and it's likely that the only reason Spencer didn't get into even more trouble was that he had a good record at that point and the principal [[ReasonableAuthorityFigure isn't that strict of a guy]]. Spencer even lampshades this, telling Fridge they're lucky not to be ''expelled''.
** Being stuck as a character of the opposite sex Bethany does not know how to pee while in a male body and needs Fridge and Spencer to explain it to her.
** Bethany tells Martha that she once wore a bikini to school, and was sent to the principal's office for it.
** Spencer and Martha attempt a BigDamnKiss, [[spoiler:but since the two are very socially awkward introverts, their inexperience really shows through the most unpleasant kiss to ever involve Creator/DwayneJohnson and Creator/KarenGillan]].
** Spencer and Martha try the margaritas Alex makes, giddy over being technically old enough to consume alcohol in-game, and they immediately do a SpitTake. Margaritas are highly bitter even with the sugar and salt, and are an acquired taste.
** Fridge gets plastered after drinking several margaritas made by Alex, forgetting that he now weighs half of what he did in the real world.
** Bethany gives up her second life in order to revive Alex. Her teammates treat this as a big shock because they consider her to be so self-absorbed, but when you think about it, it's really not a shock — being kind of a jerk doesn't mean you're in favor of effectively ''murdering'' someone by inaction. [[EveryoneHasStandards Most people would react similarly in that situation]].
** Martha tries to do the SupermodelStrut Bethany taught her — which involves long, loping strides — while walking downhill. Rather than looking sexy by any means, she mostly ends up stumbling and tripping over her own feet on the uneven terrain.
** Martha's attempts to distract the NPC guards by flirting with them also fails, since they only have a single pre-programmed response and are incapable of reacting to what she's doing or responding in any other way.
** Bethany and Alex develop feelings for each other, especially after Alex saves the team and Bethany saves him. [[spoiler:By the time they meet in the real world, due to Alex returning to 1996, he's two decades older than her. Also, he got married and has children. Bethany sadly accepts this, though she's heartened that Alex named his daughter after her because she saved his life.]]

* ThatCameOutWrong: Martha says this when she gets in an argument with her gym teacher about how pointless gym class is. At the end of the argument, she says she doesn’t to waste her life as a gym teacher, before [[OhCrap she remembers who she is talking to]]. The next we see her is in the principal's office waiting with the other kids who got detention.

* ThatCameOutWrong: Martha says this when she gets in an argument with her gym teacher about how pointless gym class is. At the end of the argument, she says "Who wants to spend their time acting like a gym teacher?" before [[OhCrap she remembers who she is talking to]]. The next we see her is in the principal's office waiting with the other kids who got detention.

* CallBack: The elephant token in the snake basket is Alan's game token from the first movie, as Alan Parrish himself said:
-->'''Alan Parrish:''' The elephant was mine. You're playing the game I started in 1969. I'm gonna have to play.

* CallBack:
** The elephant token in the snake basket is Alan's game token from the first movie, as Alan Parrish himself said:
--->'''Alan Parrish:''' The elephant was mine. You're playing the game I started in 1969. I'm gonna have to play.

** Spencer and Fridge too. They knew each other since the seventh grade, but then Fridge started using Spencer for his own ends because he felt he couldn't do his own homework, resulting in the two drifting apart (two the point that, in the game, each one costs the life of the other once). Unlike with Bravestone and Van Pelt, though, their friendship is rekindled through the CharacterDevelopment of both of them.

** Spencer and Fridge too. They knew each other since the seventh grade, but then Fridge started using Spencer for his own ends because he felt he couldn't do his own homework, resulting in the two drifting apart (two the point that, in the game, each one costs the life of the other once). UNlike with Bravestone and Van Pelt, though, their friendship is rekindled through the CharacterDevelopment of both of them.

** Alex has two. He first dismisses Jumanji's board game form so he can continue playing ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'' in his room by himself, while claiming no one plays board games any more. He later saves the others at the bazaar and efortlessly guides them through the traps in the sewers.

** Alex has two. He first dismisses Jumanji's board game form so he can continue playing ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'', claiming no one plays board games any more. He later saves the others at the bazaar and efortlessly guides them through the traps in the sewers.
** Spencer is introduced playing ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' in his room, [[CallingYourAttacks narrating every attack he makes]], finishing off Fridge's homework, awkwardly asking Fridge if he wants to hang out that weekend and being startled by a squirrel by the Vreeke house. He's as a hardcore gamer who's [[IntelligenceEqualsIsolation intelligent but lonely]], easily startled and a bit of a doormat (at first).

** Fridge has Spencer do his homework for him, tells his mother that Spencer has been tutoring him to get his grades up, mocks him for wearing a raincoat when it's not raining, and refuses Spencer's offer to hang out that weekend. Despite the fact he has known Spencer since the seventh grade, they used to be friends but now Fridge basically uses Spencer for his own ends because he feels football is the only thing he's good at (as he himself says later in the movie). He's an arrogant JerkJock who is secretly insecure about his intelligence.
** Martha is first seen refusing to participate in gym class before listing the reasons why she thinks it's pointless (getting Spencer's admiration in the process) and sarcastically calls Bethany out for not helping the others during detention. She's a judgemental loner who isn't afraid to say what's on her mind despite (by her own admission) not being good at talking to others.

** Jumanji itself also gets one. When Alex dismisses its original board game format so he can carry on playing his video game, it transforms itself into a video game so that Alex will play it before sucking him into it, establishing how enticing and dangerous it is.

** Jumanji itself also gets one. When Alex dismisses its original board game format so he can play his video game, it transforms itself into a video game so that Alex will play it.

** Spencer is introduced playing ''VideoGame/StreetFighterV'' in his room, [[CallingYourAttacks narrating every attack he makes]], finishing off Fridge's homework and being startled by a squirrel by the Vreeke house - establishing him as a hardcore gamer who's intelligent, easily startled and a bit of a doormat (at first).
** Bethany stages a waking up selfie for her Instagram page, makes a video call during a quiz in class (after finishing it), complains about having no reception during detention and refuses to help the others because "she's too pretty" - she's a vain PhoneaholicTeenager with SkewedPriorities, but is also more intelligent than she first appears.
** Fridge has Spencer do his homework for him, tells his mother that Spencer has been tutoring him to get his grades up, mocks him for wearing a raincoat when it's not raining, and refuses Spencer's offer to hang out that weekend. Despite the fact he has known Spencer since the seventh grade, they used to be friends but now Fridge basically uses Spencer for his own ends because he feels football is the only thing he's good at (as he himself says later in the movie). He's an arrogant JerkJock who is secretly insecure, but still a good guy (as Spencer had to become friends with him for a reason).
** Martha is first seen refusing to participate in gym class before listing the reasons why she thinks it's pointless (getting Spencer's admiration in the process) and sarcastically calls Bethany out for not helping the others during detention. She's a judgemental loner who isn't afraid to say what's on her mind.