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DVD Details
- Rated: PG
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 1 hours, 41 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 14, 2006
- Originally Released: 2005
- Label: Sony Pictures
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Josh Hutcherson & Jonah Bobo | |
Performer: | Dax Shepard, Kristen Stewart, Tim Robbins, Peter Billingsley & Derek Mears | |
Directed by | Jon Favreau | |
Edited by | Dan Lebantal | |
Composition by | John Debney | |
Produced by | Ted Field & Scott Kroopf | |
Executive Production by | Michael De Luca & William Teitler |
Entertainment Reviews:
Despite its peculiar name and the fact it bears a strong resemblance to Jumanji -- another film inspired by a book by children's author Van Allsburg -- it's hard not to like Zathura.
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Sydney Morning Herald
The only way to win is just to keep playing until it's over, and the only way to leave the theater is to hover over these kids' shoulders until they finally wrap things up. In both cases, there are more entertaining ways to spend an afternoon.
AV Club
ZATHURA is a rarity: a stellar fantasy that faces down childhood anxieties with feet-on-the-ground maturity. -- Grade: A-
Entertainment Weekly
Rating: 1/5 --
If you enjoyed Jumanji, the Robin Williams film about the board game with the wild animals that come to life, then ... the rest of this sentence should read: "...you are a dullard who should be slapped repeatedly."
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Guardian
Favreau gratifyingly prevents the film from becoming a mere maelstrom of CG effects by pushing the brothers' amusing bickering to the fore...
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Time Out
Rating: 2/5 --
At times it seemed like events were occurring just so the kids, or the kids in the audience, could learn their lesson a little bit more.
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Cinematical
A smart and funny kids' movie that will also keep parents entertained.
Ebert & Roeper
Product Description:
Actor-turned-director Jon Favreau (SWINGERS, ELF) delivers another work of intelligent, charming family fare with this space adventure, based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg (JUMANJI). Older brother Walter (Josh Hutcherson) and the younger Danny (Jonah Bobo) are constantly at war with one another, bickering over the mediating voice of their long-suffering father (Tim Robbins). When he has to go to the office to replace some papers the boys destroyed in their crossfire, he leaves them in the dubious care of older sister Lisa (Kristen Stewart), who is sleeping upstairs. When Danny discovers an old board game called Zathura stored in the basement, his excitement is lost on Walter, who has no time for such old, boring toys. Soon, however, the game becomes impossible to ignore, as the boys are transported into space, and one of them must win in order to make it home again. Each turn brings a new, often dangerous, surprise, and the boys are faced with a murderous robot, an explosive meteor shower, and lizard-like aliens, while poor Lisa is cryogenically frozen early in the game. The adventure yields some heartwarming, family-friendly life lessons, and Dax Shepard (IDIOCRACY) is unusually subdued in his role as a stranded astronaut.
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- Sales Rank: 2,031
- UPC: 043396134751
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