Talk:Jumanji/Archive 1

Archive 1

Jumanji (film)

When Peter saves the game from the river and after he receives congratulations, Alan Parish (Robin Williams) looked very unhappy. Why?

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—Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.210.129.21 (talk) 13:00, 30 September 2007 (UTC)

I would just like to suggest that the film plot should focus on the actual story rather than trivia.--King of the Dancehall 06:13, 19 March 2006 (UTC)

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Its been years since i've seen it, but was the cartoon on UPN by Klasky Csupo?

Taglines

• Roll The Dice And Unleash The Excitement!
• It's A Jungle In There.

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I've got the DVD on tonight, I'll have a go. But I better not stop part way through, eh? ;-) --Uncle Ed 00:49, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

This page says that Jumanji was written in 1982, but the page about the book dates it as 1981. I don't know which is correct, but I thought I'd point out the inconsistency. --Sigafoos —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 01:02, August 23, 2007 (UTC).

Error in Write-Up

Concerning this line near the end of the summary:

    'Jim (who has been hired by Alan and Sarah to work on the house) and Martha.'

When Jim has been hired to work in marketing at the shoe factory. When he and Martha mention their upcoming ski trip in the Canadian Rockies, the Parrishes respond that he should start to work right away because they want him to "get to work on the new line" of shoes.

(Saw the movie again on cable tonight.) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.202.37.231 (talk) 00:09, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Saying that the plot summary too long

I like the lengthy plot summaries. I don't know any place to get a good plot summary of movies. The plot summaries on imdb are only a few sentences whereas the detailed ones on wikipedia include a great deal of helpful information. Make them all detailed, I say. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 206.248.133.125 (talk) 18:39, 4 December 2007 (UTC)

You're entitled to your opinion, but Wikipedia policy disagrees with you: see WP:PLOT. Personally I think it's way, way too long. It should just be a summary, and not attempt to describe every scene. Pawnkingthree (talk) 15:43, 18 March 2008 (UTC)

I personally think that some parts of the summary are incomplete. A lot of story from the early parts of the movie seem to be left out or unaccounted. For example:

     'Alan and Samuel make up and Alan confesses to leaving the shoe in the shredder'

Who the hell is Samuel? He's not mentioned until the end of the movie. 72.208.111.158 (talk) —Preceding comment was added at 03:55, 4 February 2008 (UTC)

I AGREE ITS AN ABSOLUTE DISGRACE —Preceding unsigned comment added by 77.97.201.73 (talk) 21:34, 9 August 2008 (UTC)

remembering

do the two kids at the end of the movie remember anything, or somehow recognize alan and his wife? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.231.161.66 (talk) 01:21, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Diplomats in shoe factory

In one scene Judy mentions that their parents died while "negotiating peace in Israel" which sounds like they would be in some sort of diplomatic role. What would persuade a couple of diplomats to take a job at a shoe factory? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.140.57.16 (talk) 19:08, 12 September 2009 (UTC)

If you watch from the start the aunt says that Judy makes up stories about her parents and that the father was in advertising.94.196.42.3 (talk) 19:25, 14 March 2010 (UTC)

Requested move

The following discussion is an archived discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. No further edits should be made to this section.

The result of the move request was: Move Jumanji (film) → Jumanji, and Jumanji → Jumanji (short story). Jafeluv (talk) 16:09, 11 December 2011 (UTC)

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• Jumanji (film) → Jumanji
• Jumanji → Jumanji (book)

– It is clear from the page view statistics, that the film is the primary topic. Page view statistics from 2010: film 358351, book 117557 and tv series 48722. Armbrust ^{Talk to me about my edits}_review 17:47, 4 December 2011 (UTC)

• Support The film, in my opinion, is much more notable than the book.--JOJ ^Hutton 23:07, 4 December 2011 (UTC)
• Support. Agree the film is more notable and the page view stats reflect that. Jenks24 (talk) 07:56, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
  • But per WP:NCB it should be Jumanji (short story), not Jumanji (book) (which should probably be a redirect. Jenks24 (talk) 13:09, 11 December 2011 (UTC)
• Support, in line with WP:COMMONNAME &c. The film is what most readers will be looking for. bobrayner (talk) 08:03, 5 December 2011 (UTC)
• Support per WP:COMMONNAME. Darth Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 16:40, 9 December 2011 (UTC)

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Shooting Locations

There's a fourth location not listed. West Swanzey, NH is the home of the cemetary the Parishes were supposedly buried in. -annonymous 11/3/2012 12:50 AM EST — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.71.217.246 (talk) 04:50, 3 November 2012 (UTC)

Insanity

Everyone involved in any aspect of the production of this film is truly insane. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.136.147.109 (talk) 21:12, 17 November 2012 (UTC)

French version - end scene

Does anyone know how the final scene of the film was handled in the French language version? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 90.204.252.15 (talk) 12:38, 25 April 2013 (UTC)

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Bradley Pierce

Is there any reason why Bradley Pierce is not listed with the main cast (instead relegated to the "also includes" paragraph)? He's arguably one of the 4 leads of the film and plays a larger role than Bebe Neuwirth and David Alan Grier who are listed in the main cast section.108.46.147.132 (talk) 15:26, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

He's not listed because we are going off the poster's billing block. Non-billed cast members are to be in prose. Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 16:52, 19 March 2016 (UTC)

comedy?

How is this movie a comedy? It shows elements of comedy, but is that enough to put it in the intro?--Taeyebaar (talk) 00:00, 1 June 2016 (UTC)

"Legacy" section

Shouldn't most of the information in the "Legacy" section be moved into the Jumanji (franchise) page? Charlotte Allison (Morriswa) (talk) 21:34, 28 December 2017 (UTC)

@Morriswa: I would agree that it could be moved to the franchise page, but the information would have to be expanded. As-is the comments are pretty trivial.--DisneyMetalhead (talk) 17:05, 7 March 2020 (UTC)

Moved from my talk page

Legacy section

Just the same question I asked to one who undid my changes to Jumanji before you did the same: What source of legacy confirmation while scene similarity have to be as? Uploaded to wikipedia episode of corresponding series??? No any info posted anywhere at the internet about that. Only evidence is series episode itself. Can you point where to read about such one confirmation posting to Wikipedia please? And what view it have to have? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.238.102.82 (talk) 13:20, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

That's a little hard to follow, but I think I get the gist. We need reliable third party sources to show notability when including comments and info. There was none for the item you added - and as you pointed out none for others either. I added a source for one claim, and removed the other. If you think it's worthy of inclusion - find sources to back up the claim. Chaheel Riens (talk) 13:42, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

I think that's a great film worth being spotted when replicated anywhere. But still there's no any 'classic' sources as URL references exists. Will comparable screenshots from both films uploaded to wiki and posted to the Jumanji section be enough 'source' to become an evidence of scene similarity? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.238.102.82 (talk) 14:11, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Probably not. If there are no sources to support your viewpoint, then it's not notable. You can't upload images from films just to try and corroborate your opinion - at the very least they would fail NFCC free image criteria. Also in this instance, WP:TRIVIA is in effect. Please continue this over at the article talk page, thanks. Chaheel Riens (talk) 16:59, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Moved from my talk page. Chaheel Riens (talk) 17:02, 27 July 2020 (UTC)

Ending scene

As indicated in this article from Screen Rant and the opening sequence of Welcome to the Jungle, Alex's father finds it on the beach nearby while jogging, a clear reference to Jumanji's fate at the end of the first film. While we usually go by what's depicted in the film, secondary sources are allowed in the plot section as per WP:FILMPLOT.

Any ideas on how we can deal with the final sentence in the plot summary? Lord Sjones23 (talk - contributions) 12:34, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

It's not an issue of whether a source is appropriate; it's whether the sequel should be mentioned at all. I don't think it should. The note is already misleading - it says "As depicted in the film's 2017 sequel", implying some connection that didn't exist when this film was made. It's also depicted in the sequel, i.e. the sequel picks up where this left off, but it doesn't impact this film's plot in any way, and linking to the sequel in this manner is unnecessary - any tie-ins to this film should be fine to mostly cover in the sequel's article. --Fru1tbat (talk) 17:35, 7 February 2021 (UTC)

The note needs to be removed as inappropriate because when this movie came out there was no second movie. I don't know why other Wikipedia article which follows suit... I mean should we add tie-ins for books too? - Knowledgekid87 (talk) 17:41, 7 February 2021 (UTC)