Review: Zathura

Sunday, July 6, 2008

zathura I thought Jumanji was awesome. Zathura is a LOT like that movie (both of which were based on books from the same author), complete with stranded characters, a game that just has to be completed, disasters, cool special effects, distant parents, etc.However, this movie is cooler. Naturally, a lot of it is computer enhanced, and you know how it is going to end, but as someone famous once said, it’s the journey that matters.

The small quibbles that I have are thus:

1) The kids just aren’t nice to one another during the movie’s majority. Naturally, they learn in the end how to love each other, but I spent a lot of time explaining to my daughter, who was four year old at the time that it just wasn’t nice to talk that way.

2) It is pretty scary in parts. I wasn’t scared, of course, in case you are wondering. No, our daughter asked us to turn it off during the robot scene.

My wife and I were so into the movie that we turned it on again after our daughter went to bed.

Just recently we popped it in the DVD player again and watched it with her. She loved it.

So, all in all I’d say four stars. It’s the best movie in its genre, I can easily say (if you can name more than two movies in this genre, I salute you!).

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