Bearing no small resemblance to The Wizard Of Oz, Zathura is a really imaginative kid's film that can be enjoyed by adults also. There's also a nice moral lesson in there about family and the value of cherishing one's blood relations.
I'm sure that every kid in the audience identified with Josh Hutcherson and Jonah Bobo the eternally quarreling brothers. Even a year at that age makes a lot of difference in outlook and how fast one is growing up. That's what's happened to these two as they fight just as me and my siblings did back in the day. They drive divorced father Tim Robbins a bit bonkers. They also don't do any good for their older sister Kristen Stewart still years away from her encounters with the undead.
The younger one, Jonah Bobo, finds an old board game called Zathura: A Space Adventure. Once they start playing the house they live in becomes a space vehicle. It doesn't just go over the border, but out into the galaxy where the boys encounter all kinds of adventure and discover they need and love each other more than they realize. Young Ms. Stewart who was catching a few winks waiting for her date to pick her up also is caught in the madness and quite frankly she's of little help to her siblings.
Zathura contains some nice imaginative special effects not the least of which are a robot that needs reprogramming and some hideous creatures called Zorgons who eat all kinds of flesh all over the galaxy.
But first and foremost Zathura is a nice family film that I can't recommend highly enough for young audiences.
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