When Sarah, Judy and Peter are in the store, where the riot is going on, they spot the Jumanji Board Game sitting on the till counter. To the right of the till is a very large "Sand and Water Activity Table" box. In one shot the box it facing so you can see the upper part/top of the box. It then cuts, and the box has mysteriously rotated 180°, so that you can now see the lower part/bottom of the box! In the same shots, there is a trolley by the till, with some items and a box in it. Cut back to the trolley and there's now two boxes in it! It then cuts, and the box is back to it's original position, and the box in the trolley disappears! If you look more closely, the entire shelf unit behind the counter is completely different!!! See more...
The music playing when Van Pelt enters the store to buy a new rifle and ammo is no less than the Mexican national anthem, and it was- by the way- eliminated from the film soundtrack when this movie played in Mexico. See more...
Directed by Joe Johnston, starring Bonnie Hunt, Bradley Pierce, Jonathan Hyde, Kirsten Dunst, Robin Williams (add more)
Genres: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Thriller
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When Alan has a shave and says that he's never done it before, his face is covered in cuts. A few seconds later, his face is shown completely clear again. [Alan has four to five small nicks that he has put toilet paper on. As he leads Judy and Peter into the kitchen you see him pulling the toilet paper off his face. Tiny shaving cuts are barely visible after they stop bleeding; Alan was in the bathroom long enough for the cuts to dry.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
When the hunter traps the young girl and Sarah at the store and holds them at gun point, the young girl cracks a smile. Would you be smiling? [Character decision, not a movie mistake. She knows that Alan is Van Pelt's target; in fact, Van Pelt completely ignored Judy, Peter and Sarah when he first emerged at the house. Perhaps she's smiling because she knows she's not going to get shot.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
During the flood, the cop and the woman go up to the door. The cop draws his gun; just then the water rushes out at them. This much water would have probably caused him to lose his grip on the gun, and the last thing he'd be thinking about is putting it back, yet as he's floating down the street, his gun is back in the holster. [We don't see Carl drop the gun; we'll have to assume he held on to it and replaced it in the holster. With everything happening around him, holding onto the gun was probably one of his primary concerns.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
When Robin Williams and the cop are in the police car, they crash through the store (that the other three are in) because the brakes are cut. A few minutes later, the cop drives by the lady and stops without any problem. (You do see the cop pour some fluid into the car, but it would not affect the brakes, because you can actually see the hole in the brake line when they are trying to stop for the first time.) [After the crash they cut to another scene, then back to Carl filling the brake fluid. He must have repaired the line off-camera or the brakes would not work. He knew he was leaking brake fluid; he would not attempt to drive the car unless it was fixed.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
When Aunt Nora calls the house and Judy picks up the phone, the phone is very sitting neatly for something that would have been knocked askew since a great herd of elephants, rhinos and zebras just came running through the house. [We don't see it fall or get hit, so we'll have to assume it survived the stampede intact. If we saw it fall and then re-appear on the table without intervention it would be a movie mistake.]
Corrected by BocaDavie
When Alan arrives home with the Jumanji game, he starts to examine it in his lounge, then his Mother enters, and he slides the board game under the sofa. Then after he talks to his Mum, the camera cuts back to the game sitting under the sofa, yet now it is facing the other way, i.e has rotated 180°. You can clearly see this, because the board game has "JUMANJI" written on it, and the writing faces different directions in these two different shots. [The game is in the same position under the sofa until Alan goes to get it after he decides to run away.]
During the scene when Alan is confronting the lion, there's a shot showing him throwing his knife into the floor, with the camera tracking the path of the knife. If you step-frame through this shot, you'll notice that the knife isn't really thrown. There are a couple frames where you can see both the blade of the knife that the actor is holding and the handle of a duplicate knife that's already embedded into the floor. [The requirement to use freeze frame invalidates this posting.]
In the third to last scene we watch young Alan and Sarah carrying a wooden box tied up by rope that contains the Jumanji game. They throw it off a bridge into a river in their hometown. But in the final scene we see that the board game alone is lying in the sand on a beach side in Spain. So the board game managed to break out of the box it was in, and travel all the way to spain. Highly improbable. [The entire movie is pretty much improbable. The rope could have rotted away. Fishes or wave action could have opened the box. People still throw bottle with messages inside into the oceans to see where they end up. Improbable doesn't always equal impossible.]
Corrected by Rlvlk
In the scene where Robin Williams handcuffs the cop to his police car, he handcuffs him to the window frame of the driver's side door. When they go to drive to the store to confront the hunter, Williams closes the driver's side door with no problem but you can see the handcuff around the window frame. That door would not have closed. [There is a gap between window frames and the car body, sealed by rubber mouldings. It's possible for a narrow object, like a handcuff, to allow the door to close because it compresses the rubber, it does not have to bend the frame at all.]
In the scene where Robin Williams tells Sarah that she needs a 12 to win, she rolls a 3. The next time she rolls, Robin tells her she needs a 7 to win. [The rules aren't that clear about the game. Maybe on her first roll, she moved 3 spaces, and after the consequences of that roll, the remaining spaces she needs to win have changed. Like snakes and ladders.at one point you may need 12 to win, but if hitting a snake or ladder, your remaining spaces after will be affected.]
In the scene where the mosquitoes are seen for the first time, and Kirsten Dunst hits one throught the attic window with a tennis raquet, you can see the shards of glass that the (computer-generated) mosquito knocked out of the window falling down the inside of the wall, which doesn't make sense - if the mosquito was going outwards, surely the glass would too? [Only the glass that the mosquito actually touched would go out; the rest of the glass that splintered and broke would simply fall down.]
Corrected by Phixius
Not everything in Jumanji goes back into the game at the end. We see the vines don't get sucked in, and neither do the spiders, bats, mosquitoes, alligator, or lion. [They do go back into the game, even though it's not shown. Because Alan and Sarah are back in 1969 at the end of the movie and Alan's house is normal, so the spiders, lion, etc. did go back.]
When Judy and Peter are waiting for the bus before school, they are standing next to the staircase. Peter has a piece of toast with jelly in his hand, when they hear the drums they run up the stairs, Peter still has the toast. After they reach the top the toast has disappeared. And there is no jelly on his fingers when he checks out the game, as there would be when a child runs upstairs with toast and jelly. [First, it is not impossible that he could have quickly snarfed down the piece of toast as they were going up the stairs. Second, it's not a mistake that he has no jelly on his fingers. He isn't that young and doesn't have to be a messy eater.]
While Alan is in the bathroom washing and tidying himself up, there is a shot of the lion in the bedroom. The lion yawns, without showing his tongue. Lions always stick out, or at least expose their tongues when they yawn. [But this is hardly a real lion; it is a special "Jumanji" lion that appeared from within a board game, and who is to say it is going act in exactly the same way as a "real" lion.]
In the scene where Van Pelt sticks his hand out of the pile of paint cans you can see a can roll and bounce off of his extended fingers. A can of something that heavy would stop, not bounce off. [Stores often use empty paint cans for display because they are lighter and less likely to cause injury and that can could've been one. ]
This was the first time CGI was used to create animals. The CGI artists said the most difficult part was making the lion's mane look realistic. ["Jurrasic Park", which came out two years before "Jumanji", and started filming some five years before it, used CGI to create many of the dinosaurs. Though they are extinct, they are still considered animals.]
When Alan tells Sarah who he really is we see her faint. Look closely as she falls over. You can see her hair and earrings don't move around as she faints. CGI? [Look at the shot closely, the woman says, "Alan" right before falling over. While it's possible that the effects folks could have done a cross-dissolve from the real woman, there is no reason to do that for such a simple shot. She was not falling very fast at the beginning of the shot, so it's entirely possible that her hair and earrings would not move.]
When Alan gets beat up, his black eye appears immediatly. In real life, this doesn't happen. [Although normally it doesn't happen it very well can. I have seen two cases where someone has gotten hit in the eye and the black eye appears instantly.]
During the monsoon, no water ever escapes through the house's doors. Water never leaks underneath the doors, or through the locks. [Given the entire concept of the movie, this is no more of a mistake than anything else that happens.]
The young Alan (Adam Hann-Bird) has brown eyes. The older Alan (Robin Williams) has blue eyes. [Not true. Both have bluish green eyes.]
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