![]() ![]() The final scene takes place at a local diner. It’s when the other teens realize Spencer is once again inside Jumanji that they make the choice to try and rescue him.īut after the day is won and the end credits begin to roll, there’s one more surprise. One of the early surprises is that Spencer kept the remnants of the game, even after the four teenagers all but destroyed it with a bowling ball at the end of Welcome to the Jungle. ![]() (Hart, in particular, is extremely adept in his impersonation.) But while the character identities have changed, The Next Level is fully contained to the video game itself. ![]() While it was funny enough to have Johnson as a nerdy character and Hart as a high school jock in Welcome to the Jungle, they have a lot of fun as the irascible DeVito and wizened Glover. ![]() The Next Level finds a lot of humor in having Johnson and Hart play characters who are so wildly different from their own personas. Those would be Spencer’s grouchy granddad Eddie (Danny DeVito) and his old ex-business partner Milo (Danny Glover), respectively, who are inadvertently sucked into the game when Spencer’s friends try to find their missing buddy. In a twist, the avatars Smolder Bravestone (Dwayne Johnson) and Mouse Finbar (Kevin Hart) have entirely new owners. Football player Fridge (Ser’Darius Blain) is now occupying the body of cartographer Shelly Oberon (Jack Black). The previously awkward but now more confident Martha (Morgan Turner) is still Ruby Roundhouse ( Karen Gillan). The gawky Spencer (Alex Wolff) arrives as a new character, pickpocket Ming Fleetfoot (Awkwafina). Though the quartet of teenagers who were first sucked into the video game version of Jumanji have returned in The Next Level, their personal foibles make it so they arrive in the game in much different packages than before. ![]()
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