| | | A New Adventure From The World Of Jumanji
Features: DVD, Special Edition, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English Subtitled, French Dubbed & Subtitled
In Columbia Pictures' heart-racing sci-fi adventure Zathura, two squabbling brothers are propelled into deepest, darkest space while playing a mysterious game they discovered in the basement of their old house. On their fantastic journey, they are joined by a stranded astronaut and must survive meteor showers, hostile lizard-like aliens, a rocket-propelled robot run amok and an intergalactic spaceship battle. Unless they finish the game and reach the planet Zathura, they could be trapped in outer space forever.
"Favreau again delivers that rare beast -- a family film that even childless adults can enjoy." John
"Pay attention, Disney: This is how you do a family film right." Luke Y. Thompson, New Times
Editor's Note
IN THEATERS NOVEMBER 11, 2005Jon Favreau directs this tale, based on the beloved children's book by Chris van Allsburg, of two young brothers who discover that an outer-space board game has magical powers that can actually send them through the cosmos.
| Features | Widescreen Presentation | | Audio: English Dolby Digital (5.1) | | Subtitles: English, French |
| Technical Info
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 8/28/2007 |
| Running Time: 101 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2005 | | Catalog ID: 13475 | | UPC: 00043396134751 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew | Dax Shepard | | Jon Favreau | | Jonah Bobo | | Josh Hutcherson | | Kristen Stewart | | Chris Van Allsburg - Based On Novel By | | Dan Lebental - Editor | | David Koepp, et. al. - Screenplay | | Guillermo Navarro - Cinematographer | | J. Michael Riva - Production Designer | | John Debney - Original Music By | | Peter Billingsley, et. al. - Producer | | Ted Field, et. al. - Executive Producer |
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| | Professional Reviews | Entertainment Weekly
"ZATHURA is a rarity: a stellar fantasy that faces down childhood anxieties with feet-on-the-ground maturity." -- Grade: A- 11/18/2005 p.103New York Times
"In the enchanted limbo between waking and sleeping, ZATHURA feels both real and unreal, like a dream you could shake off at any moment." 11/11/2005 p.E13 Sight and Sound
"Favreau and his effects team have fun with the retro-futurist stylings of the game....The relatively restrained use of computer imagery is refreshing..." 03/01/2006 p.84 Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
[Zathura] Zathura lacks the undercurrents of archetypal menace and genuine emotion that informed The Polar Express, a true classic that is being re-released again this year. But it works gloriously as space opera. We're going through a period right now in which every video game is being turned into a movie, resulting in cheerless exercises such as Doom, which mindlessly consists of aliens popping up and getting creamed. Zathura is based on a different kind of game, in which the heroes are not simply shooting at targets, but are actually surrounded by real events that they need to figure out. They are active heroes, not passive marksmen. Nobody even gets killed in Zathura. Well, depending on what happens to the lizards on the other side of the black hole. - Roger Ebert
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