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Director: Jon Favreau

Release Date: 03 February 2006

Tagline: A new adventure from the world of Jumanji.

Main Cast:

Jonah Bobo … Danny

Josh Hutcherson … Walter

Dax Shepard … Astronaut

Zathura is a fantastic film that deserves a tagline far greater than that above. Jumanji was released in 1995 – a whole eleven years before this – so how on Earth do they expect kids to get excited about the mention of an old film that they’ve probably never heard of before, let alone seen?

Anyway, let the review begin!

The film is very original, and presses all my buttons! It’s sci-fi, it’s about an old board game that has been discovered at the back of a wardrobe (so to speak), and it’s a great adventure.

I loved every minute of of Zathura, and I can’t imagine a child out there who wouldn’t. Unless, that is, they are devoid of imagination. Oh, and if they are very ‘girly’ girls who think that space and rockets and aliens are ‘boring’ and would rather play with their plastic pink princess castles & such tripe. Needless to say, I have nothing in common with these girls, and as such, it is very unlikely that I will ever be reviewing a crappy girlie or ‘teen’ movie.

But I digress (and not for the first time on this site!).

If you possess an imagination, and have the same buttons as I do, then watch Zathura – I don’t care how old you are!

It’s a film that I would happily watch again.

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