NOKW - Jumanji

Here comes the next chapter in our "I'm Okay With, I'm Not Okay With" series (if you don't know what this is, click here for all of the past posts):

Movie:  Jumanji

Basic Plot:  A kid finds a board game and when he and a friend play it, they find out that it is much more than just a simple game.  Monkeys, rhinos, deadly plants, and a big-game hunter all descend upon a small town and havoc reigns until the game is over.  Whoa, that actually sounded legitimate.

I'm Okay With:  The fact that Sam Parrish (Robin Williams' dad) fired the only black guy in his factory for barely damaging one of his machines.  The fact that that black guy quit on his dream of making sneakers so easily when he is idea would have been worth millions.  The fact that Judy and Peter's aunt seems to be wealthy enough to afford that mansion but other than talking on her phone a lot, we are never clear how she could afford it.  The fact that the National Guard isn't called in when the town is overrun by stampeding elephants and plants that can destroy cars.  The fact that a pelican is able to pick up and fly with that bulky board game with such ease.  The fact that when Robin Williams and Sarah finish the game and go back in time to when it started, they would be completely different people with some truly traumatic emotional scars and it would be amazing if either of them is ever able to go to school again, let alone get out of bed.

I'm Not Okay With:  The fact that Robin Williams's character is stuck inside of the Jumanji jungle for 26 years without anyone but a guy that is trying to kill him for company and when he is finally released, he is relatively normal.  Bullshit.  I'm fairly confident that no one could be as sane as he was when he came out of that jungle after 26 years, let alone one.  Not only would he be completely insane, but he was kid when he went in there, so all those awkward teenage years where he was supposed to learn social skills didn't happen, so he should also be impossible to talk to.  Sure, he did run away as soon as he got out, but he also came back, took a shower, probably a dump on a real toilet, and then went right back to playing Jumanji.  If I was him, not only would I be crazy as shit, but I also would never go near that game again.  I would know what was in that jungle and I would know that it would start showing up in real life and I wouldn't want anything to do with it, but Robin Williams was "Cool, let's start playing again".  I am not okay with that.

"When someone looks like that, you know they are 'eat their own feces' crazy."