Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle Movie Facts, Easter Eggs and hidden details
11 of the most interesting Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle easter eggs you didn't know about. Handpicked and verified, these little-known hidden details can be obscure enough most people will miss. These behind the scene easter eggs and hidden messages will give you another view of Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle movie message.
Four teenagers are sucked into a magical video game, and the only way they can escape is to work together to finish the game.
Genre
Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Director
Jake Kasdan
Stars
Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black, Karen Gillan
IMDB score
6.9
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle Movie Trivia
The Rock plays the video game character Dr. Smolder Bravestone. When he discovers his strength is smoldering, he looks into the distance. If you have subtitles on, it clarifies what he is doing.
Jumanji: Welcome To The Jungle movie hidden details
The guards' vests are just animal faces.
The 'missing piece' is signified by an elephant...which was the same animal as Robin Williams character's piece in the original Jumanji
Paid tribute to Robin Williams' character, Alan Parrish, by showing us the treehouse he built in the jungle. The treehouse's new owner, Alex Vreeke/Jefferson 'Seaplane' McDonough, was also named after the street Alan lived on.
The shack Alex lives in was built by Alan Parrish, Robin Williams' character in the original Jumanji.
" character Seaplane McDonough has been trapped inside the game since 1996. He references Will Smith's song, "Gettin' Jiggy wit it," but this is impossible as the album wasn't released until Nov 1997 and the song until Jan 1998.
If you pause this scene at just the right moment, you can see a crew member standing left of frame.
Interesting that Jack Black's first acting job features him with a safari hat in an jungle themed video game commercial for Pitfall! (1983), similar to his role in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), also set in a jungle themed video game.
At the end of the movie, the view of the forest has a path very similar to that of the original board game.
In the opening few scenes a character is playing a popular Playstation game in the movie timeline, "Twisted Metal."
The vehicles inside the transportation shed The Polaris Slingshot was introduced in 2014, The Jeep is a JK (pictured) started production in 2006. The game "designed" itself in 1996 and would have had no knowledge of these vehicles at that time.