![]() When Van Pelt's forces attack, Spencer attempts to fight them off, but they are soon confronted by Van Pelt himself, only just escaping when another player uses a smoke grenade as a distraction and leads them to a secret passage. Fortunately, before they are attacked, they discover their next clue hidden in a basket containing a snake, which the team are able to acquire by pooling their skills and coming together, allowing Spencer to catch the snake while Fridge defangs it. In the bazaar, Fridge loses one of his lives when he eats cake - previously identified as one of his character's weaknesses - and explodes, drawing the attention of Van Pelt's minions. While traveling to the bazaar where they will receive their next clue, an argument between Spencer and Fridge over Fridge's perception of Spencer's role in this problem results in Fridge pushing Spencer off a cliff, costing him one of his lives. Examining a series of line tattoos on their forearms, which originally consisted of three bars where Martha and Bethany now only have two, Spencer realizes that these bars indicate the number of lives they have in the game, guessing that they will die for good, both in the game, and in the real world as well, once they lose all three lives. After emerging from the river, Martha realizes that she has been shot, but returns to the group immediately after her avatar explodes. They are subsequently attacked by Van Pelt's men on motorbikes, but manage to escape by fleeing through the trees and jumping off a cliff into a river. With those instructions given, the group are dropped off outside a forest, where it is revealed that Bethany alone can read the map Nigel gave them, the map directing them to the next stage of their quest. ![]() In order to complete the game, the players must return the gem to the jaguar statue and call out "Jumanji". The letter explains that Nigel was part of an expedition by explorer John Hardin Van Pelt ( Bobby Cannavale) to claim the legendary gem, the "Jaguar's Eye", removal of the gem from the large jaguar statue granting Van Pelt control over the animals of Jumanji. Fleeing from a stampede of hippos, the group encounter Nigel ( Rhys Darby), whose repetitive responses help Spencer identify him as an NPC (non-player character) who tells them that they have come to Jumanji (in the context of the game) in response to a letter Nigel wrote to Spencer's avatar. Almost immediately, Bethany is suddenly eaten by a hippopotamus that emerges from the river, but she swiftly reappears after falling out of the sky. ![]() The four freak out as they realize they are in the game. Shelly Oberon ( Jack Black), a cartographer that Bethany mistook for a woman because the description read "curvy genius" (and she becomes horrified upon seeing her reflection). Martha becomes Ruby Roundhouse ( Karen Gillan), "killer of men". Fridge arrives into the game as Franklin "Moose" Finbar ( Kevin Hart), an expert zoologist, but Fridge is upset that his avatar is a foot shorter than he normally is. Smolder Bravestone ( Dwayne Johnson), a muscular archaeologist. Finding themselves in a jungle, all four are shaken to realize that they have become the avatars they chose for the game. ![]() They are unable to access one of the five-player options, a pilot, but once all four others have been selected, the game draws them all inside it. For detention, they are charged by Principal Bentley ( Marc Evan Jackson) with removing the staples from discarded magazines in an old storage area, but Spencer discovers the console containing the Jumanji game and convinces the others to play it with him. They are joined by Bethany Walker ( Madison Iseman), a beautiful girl who was caught talking on her phone during a quiz, and Martha Kaply ( Morgan Turner), a socially awkward girl who objected to being made to participate in gym class. Twenty years later, high school student Spencer Gilpin ( Alex Wolff) is sent to detention for helping his former best friend, Anthony "Fridge" Johnson ( Ser'Darius Blain), with his homework by writing Fridge's essays for him. Overnight, the game changes so that the box's contents are now a video game cartridge, but when Alex puts it in his console and turns it on, he vanishes. In 1996, teenager Alex Vreeke ( Mason Guccione) receives the original (and cursed) Jumanji board game after his father finds it while jogging on a beach, but puts it aside, dismissively noting that nobody plays board games anymore, instead playing a video game involving motorcycles.
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