Part of the "March Movie Madness" challenge.

It's Jumanji in space! Weeeeee!
What a cute little flick, all entertaining and fun.
A good film to end this challenge with.

Favreau takes the book and crafts into this ridiculous fun movie with so much heart. I felt like a 12 year old watching it.

"Meteorites. Take evasive action."

This movie transports me back to my childhood. Zathura is great space adventure and I enjoyed from beginning to end, it's entertaining and funny. I really liked Jumanji when I was a kid, fantasy adventure movie about a supernatural board game. This one is next level. Jumanji in space with a lot of cool stuff. The kid actors go great together, and Tim Robbins was also good in a very small part. Special effects are also impressive.
Zathura as a family movie it is truly excellent, and one of best family movies for sure.

So the pitch meeting for this one was basically, "Hey, how can we just copy Jumanji, but have even less plot?" There's barely a story here. Brothers fight, then a list of stuff happens as they pull cards, then a happy ending. Lack of imagination, an entire cast of unlikeable characters, and some sub-par effects (those creature puppets were horrible) make this a film we won't be watching again anytime soon, if ever.

Tagline:A New Adventure From the World of Jumanji

Dang... that's a lame tagline. If you liked Jumanji, you'll like Zathura: more out of that stable, this time in space. It's light (very light) humor, with some moralism about brotherly love thrown in. Visually is't done amazingly well. Either they spend an amazing amount on CGI, or CGI is becoming fairly cheap. Better then I would expect in a simple family movie like this. All in all it's a nice popcorn movie for the whole family.

enjoyable scifi Jumanji starring him who would be in Hunger Games and her whats in that there Twilight (frozen for most of the movie, thankfully).

Okay I will just get the obvious out of the way. This is Jumanji in space. It's the same idea of kids playing a board game out in real life. It's also like Jumanji in that it is good too. The cgi is good in this movie. It's believable looking and much better then Jumanji. Kristen Stewart is in this but she's not in it much till the end and her acting is mildly passable so she doesn't ruin the movie. The other actors are good in this. There is a twist near the end which I won't spoil but it makes no darn sense. If anyone who has seen it can help explain it please do cause it makes no sense. Maybe it's like the Terminator thing with Recce being John's father and your just not supposed to think to hard about it. This was a good, enjoyable family movie. Worth a watch.

The similarities between this and Jumanji are there for everyone to see. Both stories were written by the same person. There is however no direct link between the two films. If you liked Jumanji, you will almost certainly like Zathura. I did!

Part of the "March Movie Madness" challenge.

It's Jumanji in space! Weeeeee!
What a cute little flick, all entertaining and fun.
A good film to end this challenge with.

Cute movie, it's like Jumanji in space.

This review reportedly contains spoilers. I can handle the truth.

6.6/10..