Member review

Now, I'm not saying Zathura is a great movie, but it's not bad. The language is not my issue, a word is a word, hearing it is not going to burst your ears to flames. But I watched this, and it made me sick to my stomach. I was expecting it to be a cheesy movie, but it was better then sitting in silence. I did not get much of this, it was confusing (although I often seem to find many films with scenes in space difficult to understand, I mean Star Wars is really hard to understand). The humour was poor and could have been better. If I was at home watching this I would turn the TV off, but being there with friends helped me get through.

Zathura tells the tale of a couple of brothers stuck alone in their father's house while he's out selfishly making money for them to live on. The little brother gets on his big brother's nerves thanks to his whining and the little brother feels rejected because the big brother doesn't want to have anything to do with him. He'd rather watch fave TV program than play a board game with him. So, after with a little adventure in the basement, the younger brother finds an old board game called (shockingly) Zathura and, when the kids start playing it they find their house magically transported into outer space where, with the help of their older sister who is unlucky enough to be pulled into the game with them, and a stranded astronaut from the game, they must fight robots, aliens, meteor showers, and gravity fields to get home and, perhaps, learn a little thing about brotherly love on the way since outer space has that effect on people.

Rude language is used in some parts like in the beginning.

Altogether the movie was quite poor but at some sciences I felt quite sick (the alien thing) and I was quite scared in places but its OK.