Two young brothers are drawn into an intergalactic adventure when their house is hurled through the depths of space by the magical board game they are playing.
Danny and Walter are two brothers who barely get along even while driving their parents to distraction as their older sister tries to ignore them. Despite their squabbling, the brothers manage cooperate enough to play an old mechanical board game named Zathura. However, after their first move, they find that the game has apparently flung them, their sister and their entire house into outer space. Furthermore, the brothers surmise the only way to return home is to finish the game. However with almost every move, new dangers arise as the siblings find themselves learning to cooperate in ways they never expected as they realize what they mean to each other.
I had read and heard a lot of good things about this film. I was confused by the comparisons to Jumanji and then the commercials boasting it as &quot;original.&quot; How can a sequel be original? Isn&#39;t the definition of a sequel, in fact, a story that is a continuation of an earlier chapter?<br/><br/>In the case of Zathura, the term &quot;original&quot; applies. Zathura is not a sequel at all. It does however share a common type of plot motivation. Here, like Jumanji, the game is the thing from which all emanates. They both have a spooky mis en scene. They both offer lessons of life. Zathura just does it a bit better than the first.<br/><br/>The kids are great, though they do tend to get a bit too real at times for a family movie. I liked the sister quite a bit. The music is also very inspired. I was surprised to see that it was not Williams. I was sure it had been.<br/><br/>All in all the film was quite good. I don&#39;t know that I would put it in the same league as ET, but it&#39;s certainly better than anything I&#39;ve seen for families in a long time. I predict a sleeper hit.
I guess it&#39;s not fair to call this a rip off, since Jumanji is a Van Alsburg book, but the similarities are so much that Zathura has that against it from the get go. The effects, substance and acting are adequate but that isn&#39;t what&#39;s wrong here. It&#39;s that the concept was already done, and this movie really doesn&#39;t add anything to it. The ending is terribly predictable if you&#39;ve seen or read jumanji, and the &quot;twist&quot; is fairly obvious given Jumanji as well.<br/><br/>Kids, seeing as though they don&#39;t care about fresh plots, will like this film. It&#39;s not slow, it&#39;s got plenty of eye candy. It&#39;s not dull, it&#39;s easy to identify with, and there isn&#39;t much complexity.<br/><br/>Adults, well, it&#39;s not as bad as many alternatives, but you won&#39;t be enthused. There is nothing to interest you, save maybe the very beginning when we begin to establish the sibling rivalry.<br/><br/>6/10, see Chicken Little first
Director Jon Favreau, who dipped profitably into family entertainment with 2003's "Elf," effectively recreates the illustrative universe of a good children's book, but he's stuck with a story that noisily grinds its gears.
Both Jumanji and Zathura are based on novels by Chris Van Allsburg; in the book version of Zathura, the Zathura board game is found inside Jumanji, but an astronaut living inside Zathura claims to have created Jumanji.<br/><br/>Zathura director Jon Favreau discouraged the notion that the film is a sequel to the earlier film Jumanji, having not particularly liked that film. Both he and Chris Van Allsburg stated that Zathura is very different from Jumanji. No characters from Jumanji appear in Zathura.<br/><br/>However, reviewers disagreed, saying the films were very similar, one dismissing Zathura as &quot;Jumanji in space without Robin Williams.&quot; Due to the usage of an aerosol as a blowtorch two scenes of the British version were cut in order to get a PG rating from the BBFC. In both cases shorter alternate material is used.
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