Zathura: A Space Adventure

Zathura is a rarity: a stellar fantasy that faces down childhood anxieties with feet-on-the-ground maturity.

Favreau keeps the picture throttling forward with a carefree charm.

The result is an odd mix of honesty and hokum that pilots a course toward greatness before settling into a somewhat lower orbit.

In the enchanted limbo between waking and sleeping, Zathura feels both real and unreal, like a dream you could shake off at any moment.

Favreau again delivers that rare beast -- a family film that even childless adults can enjoy.

The film's Buck Rogers-style graphics are cool, but the shrilly squabbling brothers -- realistic though they may be -- are insufferable, the story's your-turn/my-turn structure is tedious, and its relentlessly reiterated message about brotherly love and cooperation is really grating.

Rarely is a movie audience asked to put up with so much noise for such a thankless payoff.

The Zathura movie makes jumanji look like my dirty **** stained bed sheets.

Le daría un 8,5 pero como Metacritic no me lo deja redondear, se merece un 8. Me encanta. Los personajes me caen muy bien, mas las relaciones entre hermanos (que tienen que superar sus diferencias para salir adelante), los efectos visuales (quitando los "zorgons" que se ven mal) están muy bien y el ser una especie de segunda edición de Jumanji y corregir muchos de sus principales defectos. No me la canso de ver! Tienen que aprovechar mas a estos personajes...

Man, they sure did destroy that house. 'Zathura: A Space Adventure' is a solid family advantage, but man does it have some tense scenes. I was the right age when I watched this movie. I actually remembered seeing this at the pictures. The robot scared me the most. A big hunk of metal with red eyes and a buzz saw for a hand, who is played by the guy who voices Yoda. What's not to be scared about.

"Zathura: A Space Adventure" entertains the young viewers with good story and amazing visual effects, however most of the time the movie is boring and very predictable.

Zathura: A Space Adventure is a big spectacle of a movie that doesn't come out of its shell enough for its true potential to show. Instead, it goes for a more family-friendly approach that is good for what it is.