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In Columbia Pictures’ heart-racing sci-fi adventure Zathura, two squabbling brothers are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game they discovered in the basement of theirold house. On their fantastic journey, they are joined by a stranded astronaut and must survive meteor showers, hostile lizard-like aliens, a rocket-propelled robot run amok and an intergalactic spaceship battle. Unless they finish the game and reach the planet Zathura, they could be trapped in outer space forever.Zathura, a smart and stylish kid’s adventure, launches into action when Danny (Jonah Bobo) twists the key of a dusty science fiction game–a game that unleashes a localized meteor shower and wrenches Danny’s house into orbit around a distant ringed planet, bringing Danny’s brother Walter (Josh Hutcherson, Kicking and Screaming) and sister Lisa (Kristen Stewart, Panic Room) along. Soon a defective robot, a rangy astronaut (Dax Shepard, Without a Paddle), and an alien spaceship enter the picture. Only by completing the game can the kids return their house to its proper space-time coordinates, but the game board falls into the hands of some nasty, carnivorous lizards. Zathura has some obligatory emotional conflict and resolution between the two brothers, but that’s pretty much beside the point; what makes Zathura a delight is the wonderful design, the skillful escalation of disasters, and the adroit direction of Jon Favreau (Elf), who is quickly becoming the go-to guy for mass-market movies with wit and timing. Some situations may be too intense for younger kids; Favreau ratchets up the suspense at a few points. Based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg (Jumanji). Also featuring Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption). –Bret Fetzer
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April 25, 2010
#1
In response to Timothy D. Erenberger “timerenberger” (Iowa, USA) statement ‘ Well unless you have been living under a rock for the past year or so etc etc ‘ I must hold my hand up because I have just Crawled out from Under a Rock.
In the UK the Film has not even been released so while Americans can Buy the DVD in a few weeks time if you Search
http://www.amazon.co.uk you will not find any Information on Zathura at all.
Although not applicable to Zathura I have seen British Films filmed in Britain but the DVD version has only been released to America and it can take up to two Years before the Studio allows the ‘ Rest of The World ‘ to see it.
The European Union has a higher GDP { Gross domestic product } than America and the EU is ranked First in the World by the World Bank but for some strange reason American Studios still believe that the American market is larger.
In the vain hope that someone will read this please appreciate that the World is a Large Place
April 25, 2010
#2
This is another toss up movie you think is it good or is it bad. Overall I thought the movie was pretty good but not a good movie or close to being great but it’s a good family film. The kids will love the movie I say the film is good for ages 9-15. The film is ok for the older audience but they will lose intere becouse the film drags on and on and on. The special effects are good and the acting is ok. Overall kids will like it adults will be entertained a little bit but not alot to make it a good film.
April 25, 2010
#3
I bought this movie for my children and they WILL NOT be watching it! It is sad that a movie that should be fun for kids uses foul languauge. In the first 5 minutes of the movie the younger child calls his brother a d*ck. I am so glad I previewed this before letting my 4 & 6 year olds watch it. Then the older boy uses b*itch when talking about the robot. I know it has a PG rating but is the language really neccessary!!!
April 25, 2010
#4
I’m sure the 13-and-unders might find this exciting and riveting, but from an adult perspective… this is nothing more than the atrocious Jumanji Revisited. It’s not as BAD as Jumanji, the special effects are much better in this one (not saying much), and it’s not as ANNOYING either, thanks to the absence of Robin Williams hogging all the screen time and stepping on everyone else’s lines… but if you’ve sat and suffered thru THAT mess, there’s no need to sit and suffer through this, it’s the same setup, the same plot (now set in outer space instead of a jungle), and the same ending. Why was this even made?
April 25, 2010
#5
I had no idea that Chris Van Allsburg had written Zathura. When I saw the trailer for Zathura and heard “from the world of Jumanji” being advertised, I figured it was just the movie studio trying to reap more money out of Chris Van Allsburg’s Jumanji. When I got to the theatre, I was plesantly suprised to see that it was actually based on a book that Chris Van Allsburg had written.
The movie started out with overly done bickering brothers who seemed to be bickering for a bit too long by the time the game of Zathura was found in the basement. In this beginning part of the movie, I was very suprised at two words that were written to come out of a 10 year old’s mouth. It was unexpected and unnecessary.
The bickering brothers began playing Zathura and realized that they were in outer space after meteors destroy their living room after the first move of the game. They go and open the door and see that they are floating through an asteroid belt somewhere in outer space, but yet they could breath perfectly, and there was normal earth gravity for the majority of the movie, unless you spit off of the porch, and then the spit would float away. Each move of the board brought something new, whether it be a malfunctioning robot voiced by Frank Oz (voice of Yoda, Miss Piggy), picking up a stranded astronaught that has been drifting through space for the past 15 years after first playing Zathura, or being attacked by Zorgons. Speaking of Zorgons, was it just me, or were Zorgons a tribute to a few different movies? When searching the house, the Zorgons reminded me a whole lot of the raptors from the Jurassic Park movies. Their ships looked like ships from classic sci-fi movies, but without really thinking about it, it dawned on me that they look a WHOLE lot like the Natalus from 20,000 leagues under the sea, and then in the Zorgon ship itself, there was the tribute to Citizen Kane. It wasn’t exactly Rosebud, but close enough. I see I’m not the only amazon reviewer that spotted that, but I have a feeling that most people completely missed that.
Overall, the movie didn’t have an original enough story. It was just Jumanji all over again, only this time in space and with a much smaller (and less famous) cast. The language and intense scenes did seem way too much for a PG movie as well. It could have easily been rated PG-13 in my opinion…