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Don't listen to the Hype. It's awful

Boring, over-political, tech fuzed mess

Funny, strange, confrontational and subversive, this is one of the most interesting experiences you'll have at the cinema this year.

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Following the storyline of the fast-paced "Jumanji" (1995), ten years after, we get this "Zathura, a Space Adventure". And it is impossible to not make comparisons. Two movies A very real game. And some characters forced to play to survive. If in the Robin Williams' film a whole jungle came out of the board, in this adaptation of the story of the same author who inspired "Jumanji", mixing with "The Goonies" (1985), we go to outer space, with all the meteorites, cryogenic cameras, lost astronauts and alien bugs that this entails.But unlike his older sister, successive runs are happening without much noise, without getting in almost no time to hook the viewer or make him feel some empathy towards the characters. Another weak point of this new incursion in too real games, the characters. While in "Jumanji" we had two adults who put some adventure and seriousness to the game, here the two young protagonists are limited to running, shouting, fighting, and in certain final moments to give us a moralistic mania about the relationship between two brothers.The right special effects to be a movie for children. The vision of space following the trail of any science fiction movie, achieved without further ado. The intervention of Tim Robbins, wasted, but of course, that could be expected. It seems that he is there to do a favor for the director, or for his children to see him in a film intended for all audiences.In short, this new version that we wanted to sell taking advantage of the charm that had "Jumanji" in its time, is a failed attempt to resuscitate the myth that this was, a simple entertainment only suitable for children. They will enjoy it.

Walter is a know-it-all ten-year-old to his brother and it bothers me how badly he mistreats his brother. The two brothers fighting can get irritating.Danny is 6 years old, using a curse word and acts way more mature than a 6 year old. He constantly whines and refuses to play the game so that he can go home, which makes the story more boring and forgettable.There is also curse words used from 14-year-old Kristen Stewart, who also wears skimpy clothes, lazes about, and doesn't care about anything but her date. There are also hints of sexuality between her and the astronaut, (who turns out to actually be her brother).These three main characters are stupid and selfish. I know, there are some kids out there who act like these characters but that doesn't excuse my opinion that they are stereotypical. The writer is in control of the screenplay, they can succeed in making the characters more unique and likable. Though, there is some cleverness to this movie, the characters still make the movie a bit harder to watch.I don't really mind something like Jumanji, but this is way too much like Jumanji but in space with aliens and robots. At least create a plot twist.There is not a whole lot of suspense or destruction to it. It's kind of written like a bad fanfic by some 11-year-old kid. The kids set things right and make it back home where everything is somehow back to normal?The kids did an OK job at portraying fearful faces, Kristen Stewart is OK as the girl with a crush on the astronaut, the other characters perform natural performances. However, it may have been the directors' fault that the three kids had fake performances.There are some positives to it, there is quite a lot of action to it, breathtaking music and some slapstick humor. I still like the movie even though there's nothing new to be found here. It was fun and I might like to re-watch it again.

Look, I had no idea this film existed until last year. I sat down expecting a fun sci-fi action movie. What I got was stupidity.The movie is centered around a board game called Zathura. When people play Zathura, however, the game comes to life, and the players have to survive. BUT this is a movie targeted at kids. So all sense of danger and common sense are thrown out of the game in favor of keeping the kids glued to the screen. The first thing in the game is that a card pops out of the board and says "Meteor Shower: Take Cover". Then small fireballs rain from above in literally every spot in the house... every spot but where our main characters are. It's so predictable what's going to happen it comes off as lazy. Why not throw in danger? Because that would scare the kids? Well, maybe they should be scared for once!After that, they try to leave the house, only to realize they are now in space. ... wait... there's the small matter of BREATHING IN SPACE in this movie. Seriously, the characters can all just breathe in space now. And I checked; these are humans. And the movie takes place in 2005, so... PLOT HOLE COUNT: 1Lots of boring stuff happens next, but the notable thing is when another character is introduced. This character is supposed to be a plot twist, but this next thing just spoiled it, albeit subtly. One character wishes for something, and the new character says he shouldn't have done that, because he was playing the game too, he had a brother too, and he was so fed up with him he wished him away. Then he was stuck in space forever. Now we know that this guy is the brother that just made the wish, only... the brother's wish was for a football. Wait, wouldn't that make the guy fade from existence? PLOT HOLE COUNT: 2Well there's a lot more I could cover, but none of it is good. Plot holes, paradoxes, heck, there's even a part in the beginning where one of the brothers asks his father to play Super Smash Bros, even though he's holding a set of PlayStation controllers.If you've got some time to kill and some kids to entertain, avoid this movie and put on a decent kids movie. Like The Lion King. Or Finding Nemo. Or literally any other movie other than this.

ZATHURA: A SPACE ADVENTURE is nothing more than an outer space version of JUMANJI, with aliens and space stuff replacing jungle creatures. It's a film singularly devoid of imagination, despite the outlandish premise, and I can honestly said I had more fun with an ultra-low budget film like THE DAY TIME ENDED (in which a family's home is attacked by stop motion aliens) than this mega budget offering.The director behind this fare is Jon Favreau, who makes a typically soulless production that focuses on special effects over decent scripting or performances (anyone who's seen the first two IRON MAN films will be familiar with his work). A couple of annoying kids (including the eminently hateable Josh Hutcherson) play a board game that makes their house travel into the depths of outer space, where they embark on the usual CGI augmented adventures, i.e. lots of stuff is destroyed or blown up.Kristen Stewart (TWILIGHT) is cast as the older sister and, somewhat bizarrely, as the film's eye candy, parading around in skimpy underwear throughout, even though she would have only been 14 when this was filmed. Say what you will about the sexualisation of young actresses in Hollywood...A tired Tim Robbins takes the role of 'token Hollywood actor', but the emphasis is on the CGI throughout. Most of it isn't bad at all, but the structure of the narrative is such that the film's action is severely limited in scope and much of the running time has to rest on the shoulders of the two young actors, who just don't cut the mustard.