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Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) | User Rating
(29 votes) | Critic Rating
(14 reviews) |
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Directed by
Jon Favreau Written by
Chris Van Allsburg, David Koepp Cast
Jonah Bobo, Josh Hutcherson, Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart, Tim Robbins [more]
Release Date
• USA: Nov 11, 2005
• UK: 3 Feb 2006
DVD Release Date
• R1: Feb 14, 2006
Budget USD 65,000,000
BoxOffice: $28.0M
Official Website:
Zathura: A Space Adventure Website
MPAA Rating
Rated PG for fantasy action and peril, and some language.
Running Time
1 hour, 53 minutes
Country USA
Production Companies
Columbia Pictures Corporation, Radar Films, Teitler Film
Studio Sony Pictures Entertainment
More info on IMDb.com
Other Titles
• Zathura
• Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005)
• Jumanji 2
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Zathura: A Space Adventure Reviews |
Unlike Jumanji, Zathura is a complete movie-going experience. And it's suitable for the entire family (although young children may be frightened by the Zorgons, who are scary-looking). The simplicity of the plot is a strength and weakness, but Favreau's sure-handed direction does a good job of obscuring how little meat exists on the bones of the story. Zathura is welcome late-year fun for all ages - a pleasant contrast to the nauseating dreck that normally masquerades as family-friendly science fiction. [read review] 
--James Berardinelli (ReelViews)
In the end, Zathura is such a mess that the backstory it spends time developing is completely ignored. The film is so consumed with throwing whatever it can at these boys that they're never afforded a believable chance to reconcile their relationship. Kids may not care, but adults who believe Zathura will teach kids a lesson on working together should pass on this space trash. [read review] 
--David Levine (FilmCritic.com)
ZATHURA far from being a wondrous flight of fancy is grounded by its flirtation with tedium. Younger kids might enjoy the whiz-bang special effects, but there’s only so much alien attacks and shooting stars can cover, and for most of us, it’s just not enough. [read review] 
--Andrea Chase (Killer Movie Reviews)
The theme of children having parent-free adventures has always been a favorite for young viewers....."Zathura" plays into this desire astonishingly well, giving young boys exactly what they want to see: giant robots, an astronaut, dinosaur-looking monsters, and an inattentive babysitter. Ask any 8-year-old and he'll tell you those are four of his favorite things. [read review] B
--Eric D. Snider (EricDSnider.com)
I guarantee that if you picked a couple of pre-teens at random and asked them to make up a story involving a couple of kids in a house floating through space, what they would come up with would be far more interesting than anything seen in the film. “Zathura” is like one of those elaborate toys that you stay up all night on Christmas Eve putting together, only to find that the kids are having more fun playing with the box that it came in. [read review]
--Peter Sobczynski (eFilmCritic.com)
“Zathura” has pure adventure, a heart that doesn’t force itself, and visuals that will fuel the dreams of children everywhere for years to come...I hope that Jon Favreau doesn’t find his family film years merely a necessary stepping stone to a larger directing career. If “Zathura” is any indication, he seems to be one of the only filmmakers around who understands that obnoxious and crude are not always mandatory elements in a children’s film. [read review] 
--Brian Orndorf (eFilmCritic.com)
This is simply supposed to be a mindless journey that two kids go on for “fun,” and they don’t learn anything along the way. If this sounds like fun to you, be my guest, but I found Zathura to be mostly pointless. [read review] C
--Lee Tistaert (Lee's Movie Info)
And though “Zathura” may not be quite the second coming of “Jumanji” that it would like to be, it does stand by itself as a pretty nifty way to kill a Saturday afternoon with the kids. [read review] 
--Tom Ciorciari (eFilmCritic.com)
Overall, Zathura was a good film but it could have be a much better film but kids will like the film and parents will like as well just not the bad words they say in this film. [read review] 
Zathura lacks the undercurrents of archetypal menace and genuine emotion that informed The Polar Express. But it works gloriously as space opera. [read review]
--Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times)
"Zathura" is the least of the three movies because it abandons us with two of the most intolerable children to make it onto a movie screen. [read review] 
--Wesley Morris (Boston Globe)
For a kid-aimed PG-rated fantasy you could do worse than Zathura: A Space Adventure. Now there's a ringing endorsement. You could do worse [read review]
--Lew Irwin (ShowBizData.com)
If I were still 12 years old, "Zathura" would be my new favorite movie, and even at 12, I had very good taste in movies. [read review] 
--Scott Weinberg (eFilmCritic.com)
All in all, this is a movie that everyone can enjoy. [read review] 8/10
--Tony Medley (TonyMedley.com)
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