Jumanji/YMMV

• Alternative Character Interpretation: About Van Pelt. Is he perhaps a sociopath Complete Monster who hunts human beings just for pure sadism, or maybe he's a Noble Demon who just follows the game's rules and could also be redeemable if he had the chance?
  • The jungle is too hot for leather pants, stop that.
• Complete Monster: Van Pelt in the TV show, who wants to kill Alan just BECAUSE and, unlike his film counterpart, is not Affably Evil and has no qualms whatsoever with shooting people who have nothing to do with his own conflict (he mentions in the second episode that he shot his own house maid.)
• Ear Worm: The drums of Jumanji - literally.
• Memetic Mutation: "WHAT YEAR IS IT?!"
• Painful Rhyme: Most (all?) of the Jumanji rhymes fall into this category. ("Every month at the quarter moon, there'll be a monsoon in your lagoon.")
• Special Effect Failure: In a scene that shouldn't even have required special effects. When Van Pelt hands over the gold coins mentioned in Screw the Rules, I Have Money, his arm and the coins falling has a very strange after-image look to it, as if they're made of sand.
  • Considering this happens a few times with Van Pelt having occasionally blurry movements, and the animals, even puppets, also have the same type of blur at times, this could have been done on purpose. A nod to the fact that they aren't real and don't belong in our would to begin with. YMMV, of course, as to whether it's a legit explanation.
  • Then theres the spiders toward the end of the film. The budget to the film was dangerously close to going over so they had to cut back and relied on puppets for the scene. Its incredibly obvious once they appear, especially since they move in a very jerky, wooden way (Picture that way a child makes dolls move, moving it forward while bouncing it up and down to simulate walking.)
    • Never stops them from being any less terrifying.