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Zathura (2005)

Zathura
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2005
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In Columbia Pictures' heart-racing sci-fi adventure Zathura, two squabbling brothers are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game they discovered in the basement of their old house. On their fantastic journey, they are joined by a stranded astronaut and must survive meteor showers, hostile lizard-like aliens, a rocket-propelled robot run amok and an intergalactic spaceship battle. Unless they finish the game and reach the planet Zathura, they could be trapped in outer space forever.


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© 2005 Columbia Pictures Industries, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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CRITIC REVIEWS
Lew Irwin
RATED 4 STARS


It may not have received the promotional push that Chicken Little did, but Sony's Zathura: A Space Adventure, from Jon Favreau, the actor-turned-director who helmed 2003's surprise hit Elf, could prove to be another sleeper hit, several critics suggest. Indeed they are giving it the kind of praise that Disney must have hoped for when it released Chicken Little, its first fully computer-animated feature, last weekend. On Good Morning America, critic Joel Siegel called it, The best family film so far this year. In the Baltimore Sun, critic Chris Kaltenbach writes, Zathura is pure imagination and incalculable fun -- a guaranteed good time. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times comments that it works gloriously as space opera. There's no hyperbole in Stephen Holden's review in the New York Times. Instead, he writes, In the enchanted limbo between waking and sleeping, Zathura feels both real and unreal, like a dream you could shake off at any moment. On the other hand, the film also receives some scathing criticism. Rarely is a movie audience asked to put up with so much noise for such a thankless payoff as it must with 'Zathura, a loud, endless family picture, writes Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe. Lou Lumenick in the New York Post calls it a singularly loud, charmless and overbearing family movie that could use a hit or two of Ritalin. Then there's Michael Phillips, who begins his review in the Chicago Tribune this way: 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.





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Reviewed by: kristiequerio on 6/16/2006 2:01:16 PM
RATED 2 STARS

Not very original. It was just like Jumanji only set in space. Overall it was ok with the effects and all.



Lew Irwin

RATED 4 STARS

It may not have received the promotional push that Chicken Little did, but Sony's Zathura: A Space Adventure, from Jon Favreau, the actor-turned-director who helmed 2003's surprise hit Elf, could prove to be another sleeper hit, several critics suggest. Indeed they are giving it the kind of praise that Disney must have hoped for when it released Chicken Little, its first fully computer-animated feature, last weekend. On Good Morning America, critic Joel Siegel called it, The best family film so far this year. In the Baltimore Sun, critic Chris Kaltenbach writes, Zathura is pure imagination and incalculable fun -- a guaranteed good time. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times comments that it works gloriously as space opera. There's no hyperbole in Stephen Holden's review in the New York Times. Instead, he writes, In the enchanted limbo between waking and sleeping, Zathura feels both real and unreal, like a dream you could shake off at any moment. On the other hand, the film also receives some scathing criticism. Rarely is a movie audience asked to put up with so much noise for such a thankless payoff as it must with 'Zathura, a loud, endless family picture, writes Wesley Morris in the Boston Globe. Lou Lumenick in the New York Post calls it a singularly loud, charmless and overbearing family movie that could use a hit or two of Ritalin. Then there's Michael Phillips, who begins his review in the Chicago Tribune this way: 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.




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Reviewed by: kristiequerio on 6/16/2006 2:01:16 PM
RATED 2 STARS

Not very original. It was just like Jumanji only set in space. Overall it was ok with the effects and all.




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Customer Reviews for Zathura
Reviewed by: kristiequerio on 6/16/2006 2:01:16 PM
RATED 2 STARS

Not very original. It was just like Jumanji only set in space. Overall it was ok with the effects and all.

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