Robin Williams starring in Jumanji (TriStar Pictures)

"Jumanji" is a movie directed by Joe Johnston, starring the greatest comedic performer of all time -- Robin Williams.

"Jumanji" is a movie that depicts four players who try to beat a malicious game that’s out to destroy anyone who plays it. The plot begins with young Alan Parrish (Adam Hann-Byrd) finding a “board” game that he brings home to play. His father Sam Parrish (Jonathan Hyde) decides that Alan is ready to attend Cliffside school for boys, which Alan is not thrilled about.

Alan decides to run away. Just before doing so, his friend Sarah Whittle (Laura Bell Bundy) pays him a visit. The two play the board game and he rolls the dice. Because Alan rolls an eight, he is immediately sucked into the game with no way out unless the other player rolls a five or an eight. Unfortunately for him, Sarah becomes terrified when he disappears and runs away -- without rolling the dice.  

Years later, Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter Shepherd (Bradley Pierce) are now living in the house where the Parrish family once did. One day, they begin to play the game that robbed Alan of his childhood. Peter rolls an eight and Alan is freed -- but the game is far from over. 

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They need a fourth player to finish the game and defeat it, once and for all. That fourth player is Sarah Whittle, who initially doesn't recognize Alan. When Alan goes to Sarah’s front porch and softly whispers the words: “Twenty-six years ago, you started playing a game with a little boy down the street... a game with drums.” Instantly, she remembers.  

Ultimately, the group goes through a number of challenges before beating the game. They are able to send everything that ever came out of that game back into it, including Van Pelt -- the soldier attempting to kill Alan throughout the entire movie.

Jumanji is a game that should never be played, but "Jumanji" is a movie that can be watched on multiple occasions.

The game uses a rapid, drumbeat sound to lure players in. Every time the dice is rolled and any other numbers but five and eight are obtained, the game sends deadly mosquitos, vicious monkeys, killer lions and other unpleasant surprises to our world. If Jumanji doesn’t suck a player into its world like it did with Alan, it will bring Jumanji to the player. These players aren’t only fighting for their freedom, but also for the fate of the world.

All of these creatures that have come out of the jungle (known as Jumanji), are out there in the real world, putting civilians in danger. Jumanji is almost like another dimension that wants to impose its will and rules onto this other world by causing chaos.

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Lastly, these creatures and characters that came out of Jumanji know that they are from this other dimension and proof of that comes around the 53-minute mark, when Van Pelt had Sarah and Julie at gunpoint and says to Sarah, “You didn’t roll the dice... Alan did.” Van Pelt knows there is a Jumanji and that Alan is his target, as he is the guy who rolled an eight.

Also, many may be wondering: "Why didn’t this game suck anyone else in like it did with Alan?" Well. for one, the game knows that if it were to suck in Peter, Julie or Sarah into the board game, the other players would just keep on playing as they are committed to finishing the game but more importantly, protecting each other. There’s commitment now, which wasn’t there before. The game knows that. Furthermore, in a hypothetical scenario, if it were to force all four players into the game, no one would be left to finish playing it. This twisted game needs the originals to keep playing. The game thinks, and it knows.

The ending of the film is somewhat cruel. Despite the journey and affection that Alan and Sarah felt for and went through with Peter and Julie, they become forever separated. Once the game was defeated, time is turned back to 1969. Alan is back to when he was only a 13-year-old boy. Jumanji presented an alternate reality, which had been yanked back almost completely. Even though time had been reversed, Alan and Sarah still remember Julie and Peter and ultimately save them from having to play that sadistic game.

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While "Jumanji" does consist of a somewhat dark theme, it does have some of the funniest lines and scenes I have ever seen. For instance, at the beginning of the film. Alan asks Carl Bentley about what his shoes represented and Carl's response to his question is, “What is it? Man, this is the future." Classic! Or further throughout the movie when Alan warns Peter about the hell that Jumanji really is by saying, “I’ve seen things you’ve only seen in your nightmares, things you can’t even imagine, things that you can’t even see, then something screams, then you hear them eat, and you hope to God that you’re not dessert." It’s not so much what he says, but his intensity and the look he had on his face that makes it great. I love Robin Williams. 

Judy (Kirsten Dunst), Peter (Bradeley Pierce), Sarah Whittle (Bonnie Hunt) Alan Parrish (Robin Williams) awaiting the stampede (TriStar Pictures)

The funniest scene comes in around the 50-minute mark, when Alan is driving Carl's car while Carl is handcuffed to the door. They approach the discount store when, all of a sudden, the brakes go out and they crash into the store. What leads up to the crash is what makes this scene one of the all-time funniest.

Carl Bentley: Hit the breaks, now hit the breaks!

Alan Parrish: I’m hitting the breaks!

Carl Bentley: Hit the breaks!

Alan Parrish: I hit the breaks!

Carl Bentley: Hit the breaks!

Carl Bentley/Alan Parrish: AHHHHH!!!!!!!

Robin Williams will always be remembered. He is the greatest performer, comedian, actor and voiceover commentator of all time. His memory lives on.

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