Jumanji Movies in Order

Release order, which is also the story order: Jumanji (1995), then Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017), then Jumanji: The Next Level (2019), then Jumanji: Open World on December 25, 2026. Each film is set after the one before it, so there is no timeline to rearrange and no chronological version worth building. Zathura (2005) is optional; if you want it, watch it after the 1995 film.

Four carry the Jumanji name: the 1995 original, Welcome to the Jungle (2017), The Next Level (2019), and Jumanji: Open World, due December 25, 2026. You will also see Open World called the fifth film, including on Wikipedia, because that count folds in Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005), which is a related film that never uses the Jumanji title. There was also a Jumanji cartoon, 40 episodes across three seasons from September 1996 to March 1999, but it is a separate continuity and not part of the film story.

It is connected, and both labels fit. Welcome to the Jungle opens in 1996 in Brantford, the same town as the 1995 film, where a man finds the Jumanji board on the coast; it is the same game Alan Parrish and Sarah Whittle got rid of at the end of the original. He gives it to his son Alex Vreeke, who only cares about video games, so overnight the board reinvents itself as a game cartridge. Alex plays it and vanishes, and twenty-one years later the four detention kids find him still inside, convinced only a couple of months have passed. Deeper in the jungle they shelter in a treehouse the film establishes was built by Alan Parrish, Robin Williams's character, which is the film's tribute to him. So it reboots the format, swapping board for console and the players into muscle-bound avatars, but it is a direct sequel in the same continuity. No 1995 actor appears in Welcome to the Jungle, partly because Robin Williams died in 2014, so the link lives in the plot rather than in returning faces; one does come back in the next film, where Bebe Neuwirth reprises Aunt Nora Shepherd.

No. Welcome to the Jungle sets up its own rules from scratch and none of its leads have any connection to the 1995 cast, so you can start there and follow everything. What you lose is the payoff: the game washing up on the coast, the treehouse, and the whole idea of a person living inside Jumanji for decades all land harder if you have watched Robin Williams do it first. The original runs 104 minutes, the shortest of the Jumanji films.

Zathura, and the 1995 original if you only want the modern run. Zathura is optional by design, and Welcome to the Jungle sets out its own rules from scratch, so starting there works; you just lose the callbacks. The skips that hurt are inside the modern run. Do not watch The Next Level without Welcome to the Jungle first: it is the same four teenagers two years later, and much of the comedy depends on knowing which avatar normally belongs to whom before the game starts scrambling them. And do not skip The Next Level before Open World, because Open World pays off The Next Level's mid-credits scene, in which a repairman restarts the broken console and Jumanji creatures spill out into the real world.

They are split across services, which is the annoying part. In the US as of August 2026, the 1995 original is on Netflix, and so is Zathura. The two Dwayne Johnson films are not: Welcome to the Jungle is free with ads on The Roku Channel and also on YouTube TV, while The Next Level is on fuboTV, YouTube TV and FXNow. All four released films, Zathura included, can be rented or bought from Amazon Video, Apple TV and Fandango at Home if you want them in one place tonight. Jumanji: Open World is theaters only from December 25, 2026. Streaming rights rotate and differ by country, so check your own region before planning a marathon.

Yes. Jumanji: Open World opens on December 25, 2026, with Jake Kasdan directing again and Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan back as Bravestone, Finbar, Oberon and Ruby Roundhouse; Danny DeVito, Nick Jonas and Alex Wolff return as well. Sony revealed the title at CinemaCon in April 2026 and put the first trailer out publicly on July 28, 2026. The reversal this time is that the game breaks out of its console and Jumanji arrives in the real world, which is closer to how the 1995 film worked.

Not yet, but the ending is scheduled. Three films are out and the fourth, Jumanji: Open World, arrives on December 25, 2026. It is being billed as the final installment, and the July 2026 trailer coverage described it as the last outing for the Dwayne Johnson cast; nothing beyond it has been announced. Everything around the films stopped a while ago: the animated series ended in 1999, and the most recent tie-in game, Jumanji: Wild Adventures, came out in 2023.

It depends on whether you go by the books or the films. On the page, yes: the 2002 Zathura picture book is a sequel to Chris Van Allsburg's 1981 Jumanji book, and it opens with two brothers finding the Jumanji board in a park and a second game, Zathura, tucked underneath it. The 2005 film leaves that link out, and director Jon Favreau pushed back on calling it a sequel, though Sony marketed it as the same universe and Jack Black, who stars in the modern Jumanji films, has called it the second installment. Watch it if you liked the 1995 original and want more of the same author. Skip it and you will miss nothing in the Dwayne Johnson films.