The group encounter the game's non-player character guide Nigel Billingsly, who provides them with the game's narrative and their characters' backstories.
Spencer theorizes that if they lose all three, they will die in real life. While coming to terms with their situation, the group find three marks on their arms denoting lives.
Xander "Smolder" Bravestone Fridge as diminutive zoologist Franklin "Mouse" Finbar Martha as martial arts expert Ruby Roundhouse and Bethany as male cartographer and paleontologist Professor Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon. Upon starting the game, they are sucked into Jumanji, landing in a jungle as their chosen characters – Spencer as muscular explorer and archaeologist Dr. Fridge discovers Alex's discarded video game system, which he and Spencer decide to play and encourage the girls to join them. Twenty years later, in 2016, four Brantford High School students – rebellious Martha Kaply, shallow Bethany Walker, awkward Spencer Gilpin, and athlete Anthony "Fridge" Johnson – are sent by Principal Bentley to clean the school's basement for detention – Bethany for talking on her phone during a quiz, Martha for saying the life of a gym teacher is not important in life, and Spencer and Fridge for the former writing the latter's essay assignment for him as it was considered cheating. His disappearance results in his father becoming despondent and their home falling into disrepair.
Opting to play the game, he is suddenly sucked inside upon choosing a character. Uninterested, Alex sets it aside, only to find it transformed into a video game cartridge later that night. In 1996, Brantford, New Hampshire, teenager Alex Vreeke receives Jumanji, which was previously disposed of by Alan Parrish and Sarah Whittle in 1969, from his father who discovered it at the coast while jogging. The sequel, Jumanji: The Next Level, was released in December 2019.
The movie grossed over $962 million worldwide, becoming the fifth-highest-grossing film of 2017. The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for its humor and performances. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle premiered at the Grand Rex in Paris on December 5, 2017, and was theatrically released in the United States on December 20 by Sony Pictures Releasing under its Columbia Pictures label. Principal photography began in Honolulu in September 2016 and ended in Atlanta in December, with the film containing notable references to the first film as a tribute to its lead actor Robin Williams.
They find themselves trapped in the game as a set of adult avatars, seeking to complete a quest alongside another player who has been trapped since 1996. The story focuses on a group of teenagers who come across Jumanji-now transformed into a video game-twenty-one years after the events of the 1995 film. It is the third installment of the Jumanji franchise, after Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), and it is a direct sequel to Jumanji (1995), which was based on the 1981 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle is a 2017 American fantasy adventure comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan, co-written by Chris McKenna, Erik Sommers, Scott Rosenberg, and Jeff Pinkner, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Jack Black, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan, Nick Jonas, and Bobby Cannavale.