<P> They find themselves in a jungle, each now in the forms of their game avatars . Spencer is a tough, muscular explorer and archaeologist named Dr. Smolder Bravestone; Fridge is a diminutive zoologist named Franklin "Mouse" Finbar, whom he had selected upon misreading the name as "Moose" (it later causes tension as Fridge's character is designed as a valet for Spencer's); Bethany is an overweight male cartographer and intellectual named Professor Sheldon "Shelly" Oberon, whose nickname she mistook for a woman's; and Martha is a gorgeous commando and martial arts expert named Ruby Roundhouse . They soon realize that they each have three lives, and Spencer speculates that if they lose all three, they die for real . Each of them also has special skills and weaknesses . </P> <P> They learn the game's story from Nigel, an NPC guide: power - corrupted Professor Russel Van Pelt stole the "Jaguar's Eye", a magical jewel, cursing the land of Jumanji . Nigel escaped from Van Pelt with the jewel, and the players must now return it to its proper place in the eye socket of an enormous jaguar statue and call out "Jumanji" (possibly the only remnant of Jumanji's board game origins) to lift the curse . Before departing, Nigel warns them that Van Pelt will stop at nothing to retrieve the jewel, which gives him control over Jumanji's animals . The group begins to tackle the game's increasingly difficult "levels", losing lives periodically as they do so . When the group is cornered by Van Pelt's men at a bazaar, they are rescued by Alex, the missing fifth player, whose avatar is a pilot named Jefferson "Seaplane" McDonough . Having taken shelter in a jungle house built by Alan Parrish, Alex believes that he has only been gone for three months, and is distressed to learn of his twenty years of absence . The newcomers vow to help him return home . Working together, the group breaks into a transportation shed, commandeering a helicopter to fly to the jaguar statue and return the jewel, but Fridge accidentally drops the jewel into a herd of white rhinoceros . Spencer sacrifices one of Fridge's lives by pushing him out of the helicopter as a distraction, and manages to secure the jewel . Upon landing, Alex loses his last life when a mosquito bites him, but Bethany performs CPR and saves him by transferring one of her lives to him . </P> <P> Arriving at the statue, the players find themselves facing a pack of jaguars on one side and Van Pelt's forces on the other . Using their resources and teamwork, the players outmaneuver their opposition while Spencer and Martha race to the statue . Van Pelt confronts Martha, trapped in a pit of venomous snakes, and demands the jewel, but she sacrifices one of her lives to respawn strategically to get the jewel to Spencer . With all players on their last life, they end the game (with Van Pelt disintegrating into a crowd of rats), and return to the real world (courtesy of shaking hands with Nigel, who gives them fond farewells), though Alex does not appear with them . On their way to the Vreeke household (formerly the dilapidated home of Alex's father, "Old Man" Vreeke), they discover it to be restored and decorated for a Christmas family gathering . An adult Alex arrives, having returned to where he left off in 1996 and changing the course of history . He is now married with children and named his eldest daughter after Bethany out of gratitude for saving his life . He also introduces the four to his infant son Andy . </P> <P> Spencer and Fridge reconcile, Bethany evolves to care for others than herself and makes plans for a summer backpacking adventure, Martha and Spencer become romantically involved (the end of the film sees them sharing a kiss), and the teens are now friends after their experiences in the game . The four hear Jumanji's drumbeats and take the game behind the school where Fridge destroys it with a bowling ball they found in detention to prevent anyone from playing it again . </P>

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