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What's better than flying a helicopter over a ravine of Albino rhinos?
- An In-Universe example with Spencer when he witnesses Martha explain with pure audacity why she doesn't want to participate in gym. (It lands her in detention, but Spencer is simply blown away by it.)
- A mild one for Bethany, but still awesome nonetheless. The reason she got into detention in the first place is that she used her phone during a quiz. Why? Because she already finished it, long before everyone else in the class did, a subtle clue that she's a lot smarter than she seems.
- Even after Fridge/Moose pushed him off a cliff during a fight, Spencer/Bravestone proves to be the bigger man (both literally and figuratively) by barely holding the former precariously over a cliff, then pulling them back in. Why? Because he recognizes that wasting each other's lives isn't going to help them.
- This scene
, which has Bethany astutely call out the idea that Martha and several audience members had of what separates popular kids from everyone else. Maybe they live in their own cliques but they didn't build the walls alone, and Bethany points out that living behind walls, especially of your own making, isn't healthy. - Fridge de-fanging a snake.
- Spencer punching enemies into the sky at the market. Actually, Spencer fighting the enemies at all, especially while Calling His Attacks.
- At one point he casually catches a knife inches from Fridge's face.
- One of the guys he hurls through a wall also crashes through a second wall behind the first one.
- Martha killing all the hangar guards once a radio playing dance music turns on. "Killer of Men" indeed.
- Thanks to Spencer's Rousing Speech, Alex finds the courage to fly the helicopter.
- Alex's familiarity with the secret passage full of traps.
- Spencer fixing a helicopter. In flight. With his bare hands.
- Bethany/Shelly transferring her second life to save Alex/Seaplane.
- Fridge/Moose using his special ability as a Zoologist to tame a rampaging elephant. He even lampshades how his other nickname ("Mouse") means he can intimidate the elephant into listening to him.
- When Spencer refuses to give in to Van Pelt's ransom and give the Eye... Because he doesn't have the Eye: Fridge does!
- It needs to be said how awesome this is: Fridge, as Mouse, has been pretty much the Butt-Monkey all film. He’s been pushed off cliffs, carried on Spencer’s back, trampled by Rhinos, and even been blown up by cake. Yet the others trusted him enough to give him the Eye for safekeeping, and he rewards that trust by taming one of the wild animals that have been threatening them all game, and literally riding it into battle.
- After being taken hostage, Bethany uses the distraction from Fridge's arrival on elephant to bite Van Pelt's hand to get him to drop his gun and free herself. She and Alex manage to attack him as well before he goes after the jewel.
- Alex offers himself in place of Bethany, despite knowing full well he has only one life left (the one Bethany transferred to him) as it is. A far cry from the scared and unsure demeanor he had before the transportation shed.
- How Spencer and Martha manage to get the Jaguar's Eye into the large jaguar statue.
- Martha letting venomous snakes kill her in order to respawn high in the sky, with the Jaguar's Eye, out of Van Pelt's reach. That took guts, especially that she was the last person to lose her second life.
- Spencer racing up the jaguar statue on a motorcycle looted from enemies at the absolute fastest as he can, fastening a rope to the top of the statue and meeting Martha as she's falling back down, she passes him the jewel for him to put back into the statue.
- Also, Fridge is the one who comes up with the plan to get to the statue. How does he do it? By using his knowledge of football to get the group to split up and go through the jungle and distract the jaguars as well as take out Van Pelt's goons so they can finish the game.
- The gang's triumphant yell of "JU-MAN-JIIIII!" to finish the game.
- When the Jaguar's Eye is returned, there are glowing paths in the shape of the original board game's layout. An awesome call-back to Jumanji's original form. Also, the way Van Pelt lets out a Big "NO!" before he dissolves into a swarm of vermin is an awesome Call-Back to how the original Van Pelt met his Game Over.
- Bethany suggesting to a friend of hers that they could go nature-hiking. Most teenage girls of her status would be afraid to suggest something outside their comfort zone, for fear it would ruin their social life. But after her experiences in Jumanji, Bethany practically talks about it without batting an eyelash.
- Spencer living up to Martha's advice to live in real life the same way he lives in the game, by giving her a Big Damn Kiss outside the front of school. Fridge even jokes to Bethany that Spencer is finally manager to smoulder like Bravestone.
- After returning from Jumanji, and when they hear its drums, the group refuse its call in the form of dropping a bowling ball on top of it. Some kids might try to bury it or throw it in the river or the ocean, and those predecessors were pretty awesome for at least trying to get rid of Jumanji. Spencer and his friends just did it with style. The Way "Welcome to the Jungle" plays is a cross between Book Ends and Triumphant Reprise.
