WEBVTT - Episode 87: Jumanji 0:00:09.640 --> 0:00:12.680 Welcome to another edition of Nerdificent. I'm one half of 0:00:12.720 --> 0:00:15.840 your host, Danny Fernandez, sitting across from me as always 0:00:16.200 --> 0:00:21.279 Iffy Way Way first last, Now it's time to blast. No. 0:00:21.440 --> 0:00:23.400 I think you said that there are other isn't there 0:00:23.440 --> 0:00:26.600 like one other if you wa way or something, there 0:00:26.600 --> 0:00:29.600 there are other Iffy's, there are other Iffiau days. But 0:00:29.840 --> 0:00:32.560 I am the if you want a way, there's close. 0:00:32.600 --> 0:00:35.720 There's a there's an if even within my family. But 0:00:35.840 --> 0:00:39.960 he's not a Waddy Way. So back off, Iffy. Do 0:00:40.000 --> 0:00:43.879 you remember? Okay, So I said Iffy this thing because 0:00:44.479 --> 0:00:49.040 my long standing joke is that there's another Danny Fernandez 0:00:49.040 --> 0:00:51.840 spelled the same d A n I. It's a guy 0:00:52.040 --> 0:00:56.440 in Spain. He's a part of a boy band, and 0:00:56.480 --> 0:00:58.560 so it's just funny to me. I'm like, just give 0:00:58.600 --> 0:01:01.040 me because that was always you know, this is politically 0:01:01.040 --> 0:01:03.200 incorrect now, but like back then, that was like, oh, 0:01:03.240 --> 0:01:05.720 that's the girl way to spell Danny, and so I 0:01:05.760 --> 0:01:09.240 was able to like differentiate in some way. But I 0:01:09.280 --> 0:01:11.160 was looking up I had to do a press release 0:01:11.200 --> 0:01:13.160 for something, so I was looking up photos and so 0:01:13.200 --> 0:01:15.880 I googled Danny Fern, Like my name Danny Fernandez and 0:01:15.920 --> 0:01:18.840 I scrolled all the way back Danny Fernandez Ralph because 0:01:18.840 --> 0:01:20.440 it was like a press release, like one of the 0:01:20.440 --> 0:01:25.040 record ralph Ones, and this guy was involved in the 0:01:25.080 --> 0:01:27.839 first record Ralph. He was like, I think he did 0:01:27.920 --> 0:01:32.039 some of the Spanish music for the when it went 0:01:32.080 --> 0:01:34.800 over there, when it was translated. I was like, what, 0:01:35.200 --> 0:01:38.560 so this Danny Fernandez was involved in Ralph before me? 0:01:38.760 --> 0:01:43.120 Can I not escape this man? What the heck? No, 0:01:43.400 --> 0:01:47.720 that's my franchise. And it was like, no, this man 0:01:47.880 --> 0:01:52.200 was involved in it two years before me. It is painful. 0:01:52.280 --> 0:01:54.760 Danny fern it. One day we will meet. One day 0:01:54.800 --> 0:01:56.680 he and I will put a put apart. I think 0:01:56.680 --> 0:01:59.680 he blocked me. It's just like we'll meet and we 0:01:59.720 --> 0:02:03.240 won't be rivals. There's another Danny. It's spelled d A 0:02:03.400 --> 0:02:05.800 n n Y though. Um. I think he's a magician 0:02:05.920 --> 0:02:08.760 and he does. He is on Netflix and I'm like, oh, 0:02:08.960 --> 0:02:11.880 I'm popping up there too. I got something happened on 0:02:11.880 --> 0:02:15.720 Netflix too. I'm gonna pop up. We'll see Danny Fernandez. 0:02:16.680 --> 0:02:19.520 If what are you geeking out about? Oh? Man, I 0:02:19.560 --> 0:02:22.480 think what I'm thinking about is that Black Widow trailer. 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:24.760 You know, I'm curious to see what happens with this. 0:02:25.720 --> 0:02:28.600 I mean, you know, we we know her fate and 0:02:28.720 --> 0:02:31.840 in game, so I don't know it's going to be 0:02:31.919 --> 0:02:35.120 interesting because will they stick to their to their guns 0:02:35.520 --> 0:02:39.360 and uh and like ended or is this movie going 0:02:39.400 --> 0:02:42.640 to end in some type of like oh actually she 0:02:45.480 --> 0:02:49.160 you know, we'll see. I wouldn't be surprised, but honestly, 0:02:51.000 --> 0:02:54.720 what I found fascinating, which also dropped today, so we're 0:02:54.720 --> 0:02:57.360 recording this to Tuesday before when you hear this is 0:02:57.400 --> 0:03:01.520 the James Bond posters, which is funny because someone tweeted 0:03:01.560 --> 0:03:03.800 and said, this is why when the James Bond posters, 0:03:03.840 --> 0:03:08.920 which look real good, when they dropped, someone tweeted and said, 0:03:08.960 --> 0:03:11.079 this is why we got the Black Widow trailer six 0:03:11.120 --> 0:03:13.200 hours early because it was like they were trying to 0:03:13.280 --> 0:03:20.440 offset Uh whoo, yeah those posters. I cannot wait again. 0:03:20.880 --> 0:03:25.200 We had an amazing History of James Bond episode with 0:03:25.639 --> 0:03:29.720 Mark Bernard in yeah um and then Lashawna Lynch as 0:03:29.840 --> 0:03:34.880 know me, which she tweeted out her poster taking over 0:03:34.920 --> 0:03:39.520 the double oh seven Moniker. Very excited about it. I 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:42.480 know it's super exciting. And I will say another thing 0:03:42.480 --> 0:03:47.560 I'm speaking about is uh Ma herschel Ali posted that 0:03:47.600 --> 0:03:50.960 he's going to be in season two of Ramy, so 0:03:51.040 --> 0:03:53.320 I'm excited to see what that's all about. I love 0:03:53.360 --> 0:03:55.760 Mi Herschela. I stay in him. So now I gotta 0:03:55.800 --> 0:03:57.800 go watch the first season so I can be ready 0:03:57.800 --> 0:04:02.320 for you didn't watch the first season because that's our form. Look, 0:04:02.400 --> 0:04:04.640 I know it's hard because we're all like working in TV, 0:04:04.760 --> 0:04:07.960 and it's hard sometimes to keep up with everybody's stuff. 0:04:08.680 --> 0:04:12.800 But go watch Rammy. That is our friend and and 0:04:12.840 --> 0:04:16.960 I'm excited for the second season two. Yeah, speaking of 0:04:17.440 --> 0:04:21.760 two's and sequels, there's a sequel of a movie of 0:04:21.800 --> 0:04:25.400 a reboot of a movie, and that's what we're here 0:04:25.400 --> 0:04:32.440 talking about today. Today we're talking about Jumane. Yeah. So yeah, 0:04:32.480 --> 0:04:35.279 as you know when you're listening to this in a 0:04:35.320 --> 0:04:38.280 few days, the sequel to the reboot, which actually was 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:42.800 really entertaining. I think no one expected much of it 0:04:42.839 --> 0:04:45.919 because it had the recipe for not being that great 0:04:45.960 --> 0:04:48.280 of it being a reboot, and then it has like 0:04:48.320 --> 0:04:51.600 the Hottest Stars, which was Kevin Hard and the Rock 0:04:51.760 --> 0:04:53.760 and Jack Black, so people are like, oh man, but 0:04:53.800 --> 0:04:57.520 they actually turned out to be a surprise hit. And 0:04:57.560 --> 0:05:00.320 now they're bringing another one. My favorite is a Jack 0:05:00.360 --> 0:05:03.880 Black character like that is my favorite, just seeing him 0:05:03.920 --> 0:05:07.240 be like guys like just all in his like valley 0:05:07.240 --> 0:05:10.080 girl voice, and he's doing such a good job because 0:05:10.120 --> 0:05:12.480 you can really feel the personality of who he's playing 0:05:12.480 --> 0:05:17.760 with each one. So I'm really excited to check that out. Yeah. So, um, 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:20.839 this is something I didn't know when we were researching 0:05:20.920 --> 0:05:24.920 for this. But it actually came from a children's book. Yeah, 0:05:24.920 --> 0:05:27.360 that's that's what I was gonna say, Dumanji. I only 0:05:27.440 --> 0:05:30.839 knew it from the movie the first movie. Yeah, but 0:05:30.920 --> 0:05:34.279 it was actually a children's book which was written by 0:05:34.520 --> 0:05:38.280 Chris Van Alsberg, who also wrote Polar Express, which, by 0:05:38.279 --> 0:05:41.240 the way, yes I had that book with the bell 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.880 came with like a little bell. But what was creepy 0:05:45.080 --> 0:05:49.080 is Tom Hanks' portrayal. I'm sorry, Like it just weirds 0:05:49.120 --> 0:05:51.279 me out. Like I love that man and everything, But 0:05:51.360 --> 0:05:53.880 I don't know why the animation in that movie. Maybe 0:05:53.920 --> 0:05:56.320 it was the time I was growing up weirds me out. No, 0:05:56.440 --> 0:05:59.159 it's it just the I think it was the animation. 0:05:59.200 --> 0:06:02.160 I think lot of people reference it when they talk 0:06:02.200 --> 0:06:06.240 about Uncanny Uncanny Valley because it's just so close to 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:08.719 real yet still c g I that it just kind 0:06:08.720 --> 0:06:10.840 of freaks your brain. No, Oh my gosh, I'm looking 0:06:10.880 --> 0:06:13.920 at pictures of it. Wait if we look look look 0:06:13.960 --> 0:06:18.680 at this man. Yeah, I don't like it's nightmare fuel. Yeah, 0:06:19.120 --> 0:06:25.400 look at him. Yeah I don't. It's like anyways. Um, 0:06:25.560 --> 0:06:27.360 I love you, Tom Hanks, I love you. Oh did 0:06:27.360 --> 0:06:29.039 he do mo cap? Of course he did. He did 0:06:29.160 --> 0:06:32.440 motion capture. I didn't know that. Look at this, See 0:06:32.440 --> 0:06:34.840 he has the whole cap on in the suit and everything. 0:06:35.240 --> 0:06:38.080 I didn't realize they did that for his character. It's 0:06:38.120 --> 0:06:41.160 just like a it's a beloved film, and that's all 0:06:41.200 --> 0:06:46.400 I'm gonna say. Okay, so so uh yeah, it came 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:50.719 out in nineteen one. Jumanji is actually the Zulu word 0:06:50.760 --> 0:06:54.200 for many effects. So in the book, Peter and Judy 0:06:54.240 --> 0:06:56.880 are brother and sister who find themselves board one afternoon. 0:06:56.920 --> 0:06:59.200 The board game they pick up gives a much more 0:06:59.240 --> 0:07:02.320 trouble than they bargain for. It's a picture book. The 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:05.919 narrative actually isn't in depth obviously as much as the 0:07:05.920 --> 0:07:08.760 film for the television show. Uh. And then, when asked 0:07:08.760 --> 0:07:11.760 how he got the idea for the book, Van Olsberg said, 0:07:11.800 --> 0:07:13.960 when I was little boy, and I would play games 0:07:13.960 --> 0:07:16.840 like Monopoly. They seemed kind of exciting, but when I 0:07:16.880 --> 0:07:19.600 was done with the game, all I had was fake money. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:21.880 So I thought that it would be fun and exciting 0:07:22.000 --> 0:07:24.280 if there was such a thing as a game board 0:07:24.280 --> 0:07:26.600 where whenever you landed on a square and it said 0:07:26.640 --> 0:07:30.040 something was going to happen, then it would really happen. Yeah, 0:07:30.240 --> 0:07:32.680 I know. And this book was so good that it 0:07:32.720 --> 0:07:36.480 won a Caldecott, which was an award given annually by 0:07:36.480 --> 0:07:39.840 the Association for Library Service to Children, and it was 0:07:39.880 --> 0:07:42.160 a division of the American It's a division of the 0:07:42.200 --> 0:07:46.880 American Library Association to UH to the most distinguished American 0:07:46.920 --> 0:07:51.040 picture book UH for children, and he won that in 0:07:52.120 --> 0:07:55.800 two The art, which was also by Van Elsberg, was 0:07:55.840 --> 0:07:59.760 in a surrealist style, often playing with like perspective. Wait, 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:04.120 I totally did have this book. No, I bet you did. 0:08:04.120 --> 0:08:06.000 To hang on, look, I'm going to show you, and 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:10.160 I guarantee you we'll look at it. Do you recognize this? No, 0:08:10.280 --> 0:08:13.160 I don't recognize that. Wait. I mean, well, it's not 0:08:13.280 --> 0:08:15.560 it's not even necessarily because I didn't have it. Just 0:08:15.640 --> 0:08:19.040 my dad, my Nigerian dad, was very slow on American 0:08:19.080 --> 0:08:22.320 media like everything, Like like I didn't. I didn't get 0:08:22.440 --> 0:08:25.800 fancy like books like that. Okay, I mean I probably 0:08:25.800 --> 0:08:27.840 got it from the library or something, but I totally 0:08:27.920 --> 0:08:29.760 had this book and the right it was very much 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:31.400 a picture Okay, so the picture book is kind of 0:08:31.440 --> 0:08:35.920 what I'm looking at is like black and white, very stylized, 0:08:35.960 --> 0:08:40.880 like contemporary looking artwork. Uh but wow, I did. I 0:08:40.920 --> 0:08:42.280 guess let me know, if you had the book, if 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:44.360 you had the Jumanji book at home and you're listening 0:08:44.400 --> 0:08:46.440 to this, I thought I didn't, But now that I'm 0:08:46.440 --> 0:08:48.760 looking at these pictures, I totally did. I recognize this 0:08:48.880 --> 0:08:53.320 cover and these kids. Uh So the movie then came 0:08:53.320 --> 0:08:57.160 out in it took a lot of liberties with the text, 0:08:57.200 --> 0:08:59.120 as it kind of needed to. There wasn't too much 0:08:59.120 --> 0:09:01.720 to work from than like scenes of monkeys in their 0:09:01.760 --> 0:09:05.280 living room and like rhinos going through their house. The 0:09:05.280 --> 0:09:08.520 original film was actually written by Jonathan Hensley, who did 0:09:08.600 --> 0:09:15.720 Armagannon and Punisher oh four, a totally different moving than Humanji. Yeah, 0:09:15.760 --> 0:09:18.880 but also like I'm always fascinated to find fans of 0:09:18.880 --> 0:09:22.000 that Punisher like a lot of people like it actually, 0:09:22.200 --> 0:09:24.000 oh yeah, a lot of people like it. I thought 0:09:24.000 --> 0:09:25.680 you were going to say you always find it fascinating 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:28.160 when people do such different things, and then I was 0:09:28.200 --> 0:09:31.840 going to mention how the same person wrote both the 0:09:31.880 --> 0:09:37.480 Hangover part two did Chernobyl and then did Joker. I 0:09:37.480 --> 0:09:40.520 always think I always bring up how um the Russo 0:09:40.640 --> 0:09:43.360 brothers did my favorite guilty pleasure, which is you mean 0:09:43.440 --> 0:09:48.440 dupri Solter. We have a comedy background, which you see 0:09:48.440 --> 0:09:51.480 a lot of, like with whatever his name is, uh 0:09:51.800 --> 0:09:55.520 Tony start calling that guy squid word ye. Jim Strain 0:09:55.600 --> 0:09:58.880 also worked on it, and Greg Taylor, who wrote Harriet 0:09:59.000 --> 0:10:02.679 the Spy still holds up too. Oh yeah, yeah, I was. 0:10:02.960 --> 0:10:04.680 It was on like I was in a hotel knows 0:10:04.760 --> 0:10:06.240 On and I was watching. I was like, oh, this 0:10:06.360 --> 0:10:10.080 still slaps. Did you see that scene where the person 0:10:10.320 --> 0:10:12.400 they tweeted it they were like, Harriet did not have 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:14.880 to go in on her like that with that girl 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:19.199 where she was like it was like your family doesn't 0:10:19.280 --> 0:10:22.839 love you or whatever. It was okay, um. So he's 0:10:22.840 --> 0:10:25.079 stuck in this board game for nearly thirty years. He's 0:10:25.120 --> 0:10:28.040 led out of the game when his Robin William as 0:10:28.080 --> 0:10:30.040 Alan Parish. So he's stuck in a board game for 0:10:30.080 --> 0:10:31.920 nearly thirty years, He's led out of the game when 0:10:31.920 --> 0:10:36.679 a new family moved in. Uh, Kirsten Dunts and her 0:10:36.720 --> 0:10:40.480 brother to his old house and the kids continue to 0:10:40.480 --> 0:10:43.240 play where the original crew is left off. Also Bonnie Hunt, 0:10:43.679 --> 0:10:47.760 remember Bonnie Hunt was in it. The movie earned Wow 0:10:48.200 --> 0:10:51.160 sixty two point eight million dollars worldwide. I Fell I 0:10:51.240 --> 0:10:53.520 was pretty big at the time, became the tenth highest 0:10:53.559 --> 0:10:56.199 grossing film of the year. In an interview with The 0:10:56.200 --> 0:10:59.640 New York Times, director Joe Johnston, who did Honey I 0:10:59.679 --> 0:11:02.440 Shrunk the Kids, stated that the studio, which was Sony, 0:11:02.520 --> 0:11:04.160 said they would make the film if we could get 0:11:04.240 --> 0:11:07.079 Robin to do it. He had passed on the original script. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:08.800 A bunch of a stayed up all night doing a 0:11:08.840 --> 0:11:11.880 cut and paste job and changed a lot around, and 0:11:11.960 --> 0:11:14.640 Robin liked it enough to say yes. I'm so curious 0:11:14.679 --> 0:11:17.720 to what he didn't like about the original script. I 0:11:17.720 --> 0:11:20.680 wonder if it was two kids like because Jumanji. The 0:11:20.679 --> 0:11:24.120 film is actually very dark and it deals with grief 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:30.840 and loss and PTSD uh, and it's actually really heavy, 0:11:31.160 --> 0:11:33.760 like it's scary now when you think about it. Yeah, 0:11:33.760 --> 0:11:36.120 it is truly heavy. You have this guy who like 0:11:37.679 --> 0:11:42.040 essentially was trapped in a game for thirty years. He 0:11:42.160 --> 0:11:45.000 was a kid when it happened, and now he's like 0:11:45.080 --> 0:11:47.760 thirty years in the future and he like meets his crush. 0:11:47.840 --> 0:11:52.600 It's it's wild. They never really truly uh. I would 0:11:52.640 --> 0:11:56.080 love the like after Jumanji when they're teaching this kid 0:11:56.320 --> 0:11:59.679 everything he should know now as a thirty year old. Well, my, 0:12:00.040 --> 0:12:03.400 well they do uh they do, you know, get to 0:12:03.520 --> 0:12:06.000 in the end end up together and then they go 0:12:06.120 --> 0:12:11.720 and um, Judy and her brother's Judy and her brother. Uh, 0:12:11.960 --> 0:12:14.320 they like go to their Christmas party and their parents 0:12:14.320 --> 0:12:16.040 are like, oh, we're going to go skiing and they're like, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:20.839 don't go because that's how they lost their parents. Um. So. 0:12:20.880 --> 0:12:23.360 He also said every Monday night Robin went to a 0:12:23.400 --> 0:12:25.640 comedy club in Vancouver and did an hour and a 0:12:25.679 --> 0:12:28.480 half of improv with the locals, then another hour and 0:12:28.480 --> 0:12:31.000 a half of solo stand up. God, that's a lot 0:12:31.400 --> 0:12:34.400 three hours of burning off x esteem. He was glorious, 0:12:34.400 --> 0:12:37.960 said Jonathan Hyde. That was the actor that played Alan's father, 0:12:38.240 --> 0:12:41.120 Yes and the Big Game Hunter. Yes, he played both 0:12:41.160 --> 0:12:44.839 the villain and his dad. A very captain, a very 0:12:44.920 --> 0:12:49.640 hook yeah thing um and yeah it's it's so interesting 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.040 reading about like Robin doing improv and comedy, because that 0:12:53.120 --> 0:12:56.080 was the one train I missed, and I truly that's 0:12:56.120 --> 0:12:59.120 the one I have very few regrets in my life. 0:12:59.440 --> 0:13:02.480 One of my guess regrets is, I guess at uc B, 0:13:02.760 --> 0:13:05.480 Robin and Williams used to go to the jams and 0:13:05.520 --> 0:13:07.920 he would just go up and perform, and so people 0:13:08.000 --> 0:13:10.120 used to be able to perform. So there are people 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:12.880 at UCB now to this day who got to perform 0:13:13.000 --> 0:13:15.160 improv with them. And I was like, man, if I 0:13:15.200 --> 0:13:17.280 just would have started a little earlier, because it was 0:13:17.360 --> 0:13:21.240 only like not too long ago, like not too long 0:13:21.280 --> 0:13:27.840 after I started. But anyway, back to Jumanji, Uh, Bradley Pierce, 0:13:27.840 --> 0:13:30.080 who was Chip and Beauty and the beasts who played 0:13:30.120 --> 0:13:33.360 Peter recalled the gifts that William gave to the cast. 0:13:33.480 --> 0:13:36.160 So Robin he would give the cast, I guess, hard 0:13:36.160 --> 0:13:38.800 bound copies of the script as rap gifts, and then 0:13:38.840 --> 0:13:41.160 he would sign them. He wrote something like you were 0:13:41.160 --> 0:13:42.920 a great monkey boy and a pleasure to work with. 0:13:43.000 --> 0:13:44.960 You have a bright future ahead. And he was very 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.640 much an inspiration, not as a performer but as a person. 0:13:48.559 --> 0:13:51.040 I love hearing stories like that because like, that's who 0:13:51.480 --> 0:13:54.200 the type of person I always uh want to be. 0:13:54.440 --> 0:13:58.080 Like on set, there was on the Now it's out, 0:13:58.120 --> 0:13:59.959 I can talk about it in a wizard school draw 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:03.160 ap out. Um, anyone who actually like went through and 0:14:03.200 --> 0:14:07.360 washed and played it. It's on Echo is it h 0:14:07.600 --> 0:14:10.480 Hello Echo dot com? Or you can download the app. 0:14:10.840 --> 0:14:14.000 But there was the actor who plays like the creepy 0:14:14.080 --> 0:14:16.440 dude at the bar with me. He came and he 0:14:16.480 --> 0:14:18.400 had gifts for everyone, and I was like, I've never 0:14:18.480 --> 0:14:21.840 done that. I gotta do that. I gotta bring little 0:14:21.840 --> 0:14:25.120 gifts when I get really stressed on set. My my, 0:14:25.360 --> 0:14:27.840 what I always tell myself is you have the ability 0:14:27.920 --> 0:14:30.400 to make people feel good, Like I do know that 0:14:30.480 --> 0:14:33.160 about myself. And it's like, how can I make someone 0:14:33.160 --> 0:14:36.240 feel good today, like someone that's working on set or 0:14:36.320 --> 0:14:38.760 crew person like whatever. How can I make someone laugh 0:14:38.880 --> 0:14:46.000 or feel acknowledged? Yeah? So the effects eight most of 0:14:46.040 --> 0:14:49.480 the film fifty million dollar budget, which now when you 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:53.240 watch it kind of holds up a little. Yeah, but 0:14:53.320 --> 0:14:56.760 you're like, Okay, it's a product of its time, but 0:14:56.880 --> 0:15:00.440 most of the movie still looks good. Ish. Um. While 0:15:00.440 --> 0:15:03.280 the film was a financial success, many critics worried that 0:15:03.320 --> 0:15:05.240 the picture would be too scary for children. I mean, 0:15:05.320 --> 0:15:07.920 honest to God, it probably is middle school and up. 0:15:07.960 --> 0:15:10.760 I wonder maybe fifth grade. I think if I couldn't 0:15:10.760 --> 0:15:14.240 show it to my niece who's four or anywhere around 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.280 that age, I think it would be way too scary. 0:15:17.520 --> 0:15:21.520 I mean you literally have a like a hunter like 0:15:21.600 --> 0:15:26.600 hunting you down with his rifle. Roger Ebert said Jumanji 0:15:26.720 --> 0:15:30.000 is being promoted as a jolly holiday season of entertainment 0:15:30.520 --> 0:15:32.760 with ads that show Robin Williams with a twinkle in 0:15:32.880 --> 0:15:35.560 his I the movie itself is likely to send younger 0:15:35.640 --> 0:15:38.720 children fleeing from the theater or hiding in their parents arms. 0:15:38.760 --> 0:15:40.600 Those who do sit all the way through it are 0:15:40.680 --> 0:15:42.960 likely to toss in turn with nightmares inspired by his 0:15:43.080 --> 0:15:45.680 frightening images. And he's not entirely wrong. Yeah, he's not 0:15:45.800 --> 0:15:48.680 entirely wrong, but I wouldn't go all too I feel 0:15:48.680 --> 0:15:52.520 like a little sauce on that. It's definitely not a holiday. 0:15:52.840 --> 0:15:55.720 I mean, there's the Santa clause. I remember what was 0:15:55.840 --> 0:15:59.160 terrifying for me and my young age with that elephant 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:02.400 scene at the Stampede and they hied in the car 0:16:02.440 --> 0:16:04.920 and like they're being crushed in a car like that 0:16:05.040 --> 0:16:07.840 was a really intense scene. I think for me it 0:16:08.000 --> 0:16:11.800 was the spider, like the huge spider. Also the like 0:16:11.960 --> 0:16:16.320 boy getting the tail, like turning into a monkey. Um, 0:16:16.640 --> 0:16:22.240 the wasps actually the like hornets. Remember this all, um, 0:16:22.280 --> 0:16:24.960 So we are going to take a really quick break 0:16:25.200 --> 0:16:28.560 and then we'll hop back more into Jumanji in the 0:16:28.560 --> 0:16:31.040 future of Jumanji. But first we wanted to talk to 0:16:31.080 --> 0:16:35.160 you a little bit about away bags, which I have 0:16:35.320 --> 0:16:38.360 one and if he has one. 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It's designed to 0:18:44.560 --> 0:18:47.399 last a lifetime, so if your suitcase breaks, they have 0:18:47.480 --> 0:18:49.800 customer service team that will arrange it to be fixed 0:18:49.920 --> 0:18:53.919 or replaced. And they also offer free shipping and returns 0:18:53.960 --> 0:18:59.040 on any orders in the contiguous US, Europe, Canada and Australia. 0:18:59.359 --> 0:19:01.399 You know, get your way back so you can get away. 0:19:01.640 --> 0:19:07.600 And we are back talking about Shumanji. It's great, and 0:19:07.680 --> 0:19:10.040 we pretty much we're talking about the earlier movie with 0:19:10.440 --> 0:19:14.920 uh uh Robin Williams and it was it was a hit. 0:19:15.760 --> 0:19:18.879 There was. It also led to a TV series that 0:19:18.960 --> 0:19:24.360 had three seasons between and I remember that it ran 0:19:24.440 --> 0:19:26.840 for three seasons at Aerto on up N and they 0:19:26.880 --> 0:19:30.439 had forty episodes, but it excluded the kids like super 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:34.359 Cool Aunt and the kids were sucked back in the 0:19:34.400 --> 0:19:36.399 game and they had to help out and find the 0:19:36.440 --> 0:19:40.000 clues you need to escape and you can actually stream 0:19:40.000 --> 0:19:42.920 it on Hulu, right what yeah, Oh I want to 0:19:42.960 --> 0:19:46.320 go watch it. Oh yeah, Well another thing is that 0:19:46.480 --> 0:19:48.359 I don't know. I guess I always thought the board 0:19:48.359 --> 0:19:51.639 game just existed, but it didn't. Milton Bradley of course, 0:19:52.160 --> 0:19:55.200 was like, saw this and saw dollar signs, and so 0:19:55.240 --> 0:19:57.000 they came out with the board game after the film 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.960 was released because it was so popular. It featured many 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:03.080 of the main plot points in the film. Uh, And 0:20:03.440 --> 0:20:05.320 I think you can still get it now. It looks 0:20:05.359 --> 0:20:08.359 like it it's worth a hundred bucks though. Okay, the 0:20:08.400 --> 0:20:11.760 game board from the original film sold for over sixty 0:20:11.800 --> 0:20:13.960 thou Now that is something if I had a ton 0:20:14.000 --> 0:20:15.680 of money, I kind of would want because do you 0:20:15.680 --> 0:20:18.399 remember the one in the movie. It like had that 0:20:18.480 --> 0:20:22.800 big um glass dome in the middle and it like 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:25.080 kind of showed when they would roll the die. Also, 0:20:25.119 --> 0:20:27.840 the die was cool. The board itself, like in the 0:20:27.880 --> 0:20:31.520 actual movie, was wooden. It was in great like engraved. 0:20:32.600 --> 0:20:35.400 It was super cool. So that was worth sixty dollars. 0:20:35.680 --> 0:20:38.040 But I think the board game, which I don't know 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:39.399 if they still have out now, but it looks like 0:20:39.440 --> 0:20:42.600 you can get one from the nineties. That's like about 0:20:42.640 --> 0:20:47.159 a hundred bucks. Bandai Namco Entertainment, Europe, Outright Games and 0:20:47.200 --> 0:20:49.720 fun Solve had teamed up with Sony Pictures to make 0:20:49.720 --> 0:20:52.960 a video game based on the latest Jumanji movies. So 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.200 it just came out. So that's a that's a fresh 0:20:55.200 --> 0:20:57.119 one if y'all want to hit it up. And then 0:20:57.600 --> 0:21:01.159 what's cool is that the success of the gineral Jumanji 0:21:01.320 --> 0:21:05.000 is what led to the film adaptation of the Polar Express. 0:21:05.080 --> 0:21:09.920 So Chris van Alsberg's Jumanji being adapt adapted into this 0:21:09.960 --> 0:21:11.560 film that did so well, then he was able to 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:14.280 adapt other works of his pretty neat, you know what. 0:21:14.359 --> 0:21:19.400 This is so fascinating. So Jumanji and and Sony are 0:21:19.480 --> 0:21:22.760 now facing off twice in the box office against the 0:21:22.800 --> 0:21:25.919 Star Wars film. So the Last Jedi in Seen and 0:21:25.960 --> 0:21:28.560 The Rise of Skywalker will premier the week following the 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:31.600 third installment of Jumanji. I find that really fascinating that, 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:34.920 like they keep butting up against each other. Pretty sure 0:21:34.920 --> 0:21:39.239 I can tell which one is gonna win. But you know, 0:21:39.640 --> 0:21:43.520 it's also cool to see the rock um oh man um. 0:21:43.560 --> 0:21:45.959 But yeah, speaking of the rock one, So we were 0:21:46.000 --> 0:21:49.160 talking about the classic Jumanji and all that, but there 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:52.679 was a reboot, and like I said, you know people 0:21:52.800 --> 0:21:56.280 people weren't ready, but they were. Would you call this 0:21:56.400 --> 0:22:01.159 a reboot? Um, because Alan Parish exists in this he 0:22:01.480 --> 0:22:06.800 is right, yes, yeah, yeah, it's technically yeah, it's almost 0:22:06.880 --> 0:22:09.760 like a sequel. Yeah, because it's not even like it's 0:22:10.320 --> 0:22:13.960