2. Um, What About The Fact That Alan & Sarah Are Adults Trapped In Children's Bodies? - Jumanji (1995)
Jumanji is a movie about the power of board games, and how getting one out of the closet now and again is a good, wholesome way to spend a couple of hours. It's also about a roaring stampede which erupts from within said board game - one which attempts to trample a man, a woman and two young children. The movie begins, though, in, like the '60s, where Alan (Robin Williams) is sucked into the game and trapped there for near-on thirty years. He is eventually released in the '90s, learns to shave his beard, a spends much of his time freaking out about society's technological advancements. The central premise of
Jumanji is that the cursed board game has to be completed to stop a relentless chain of terrifying events from occurring, which is what the main characters proceed to do. Alan joins two children and his former childhood sweetheart, Sarah, in playing Jumanji, and when it's done, Alan and Sarah are whisked back in time and granted their childhood again, whilst the kids go back to not being born yet. Woo! But that's... so bizarre. Because Alan and Sarah
keep their memories. Which means that Alan is actually, like, a 45-year-old man in a child's body. By the time he grows up to be a man, he'll be, like, eighty or something in his brain. And for Sarah, who
already lived her life... well, she has to do it
all over again. Anything good that happened to her over the course of her 30 years is completely disregarded. She has to literally start again from scratch with the memories of her old life still in her brain. If these two managed to get through life again without getting committed or going insane, they deserve some serious props. What a horrible, terrifying situation.