WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

FrogGlace In other words,this film is a surreal ride.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Ortiz Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

pinkarray 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.

Leofwine_draca 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.

lisafordeay Zathura: A Space Adventure is a 2005 action packed fantasy adventure about two brothers who don't see eye to eye. They constantly fight about everything and Walter thinks that his brother was a mistake. So when Walter's younger brother comes across a mysterious board game called Zathura: A Space Adventure he decides to play it. But when he does play it things get out of hand,between a meteor shower,a robot,a bunch of Zortagans(basically lizards from outer space) and a stranded astronaut(who is really Walter from the future,which is a twist in the movie). Stars The Shawshank Redemption's Tim Robbins as Walter and his younger brother(Jonah Bobo)'s father,Twlight's Kristen Stewart as Lisa,Jonah Bobo(who I think is in Diary Of A Whimpey Kid with Zachary Gordan)and Josh Hutcherson from Hunger Games and Epic. This film is surprisingly not that bad. If you loved Jumanji than you will love this movie.

WakenPayne Okay so I decided to sit down and watch this because... It was on TV and MirrorMask would play next. When I did sit down to watch it what I got was probably one of the dumbest family films I've ever seen (I say "one of the" because the animated Titanic movies exist).The plot is that 2 kids sit down and play a magic board game while their father is out and their older sister watches them. They play through together with the help of a stranded astronaut who has played the game before and their older sister.Okay down to my complaints. The dialogue is some of the laziest I've ever heard. Lines dominate the movie which tell us exactly what's going on screen. Why did they say it? I mean it's like the screenwriter thought that nobody would pay attention to what's going on and just added in the lines to recap "okay, this is what's going on, are you looking at the screen yet?".The acting is bad. I mean when one of the best performances in the movie is Kirsten Stewart then you have some spectacularly bad problems with casting. I'm not kidding when I type this either, she goes over-the-top in a way that could be laughed at.Then there's the drags to the film. There's a simple scene where the 2 bad acting kids resume playing the game, okay seems simple enough. They drag this for what feels like an eternity showing them arguing while the astronaut calms them down... For about 5 seconds, as they continue dragging the film to yet another complete halt. The worst of them being the 20 minutes of them trying to get the game board from an alien race.The story arc of Walter is rushed to an extent where it's almost literally blink and you'll miss it. The story arc consists of him not liking his brother and the astronaut for less than 10 seconds explains why they should value each other and... That's it, the entire movie from the perspective of this kid is changed literally within moments.So this movie has a lot of things wrong with it. I mean the acting aside from the astronaut ranges from "not caring" to "over the top", The constant detours drag this film heavily, the story arcs are literally blink and you'll miss it and the dialogue is not needed to an extent that you can cut out half of it and you'll miss nothing.