10 Movie Endings With Disturbing Implications You Totally Missed

Jumanji ends with Alan (Robin Williams), who has spent 26 years trapped inside the titular board game, finally completing the game and being sent back to 1969, along with his love interest and fellow player Sarah (Bonnie Hunt), to effectively relive the time he "lost" while stuck in Jumanji.

We then cut back to the new 1995 timeline, where Alan and Sarah are married and expecting their first child, and they once again meet Judy (Kirsten Dunst) and Peter (Bradley Pierce), the children they played Jumani with in the original 1995.

The kicker, of course, is that Alan and Sarah retain at least a significant portion of their memories from those torrid 26 years, where Alan was stuck in Jumanji and Sarah was left deeply traumatised by Alan's disappearance into the game.

Effectively, when they went back to being children in 1969, they had the mental capacity of forty-something adults, which would be existentially terrifying for many reasons, not least that you would outpace all your peers in emotional intelligence but also not be taken seriously by adults.

Then there's the fact they had to re-live almost 30 years of life, which while perhaps a relief for Alan might not be so for Sarah, who may have been a lot less keen to relive even a happier version of her younger life.

Though a veneer of happiness is presented by this ending, it's extremely difficult to believe that there isn't some serious trauma beneath the surface, trauma which even the most well-trained psychologist isn't really equipped to deal with. After all, who would ever believe them?