Product Information
Brothers Danny and Walter start playing an old board game they find in their basement and are transported into outer space. Can the boys stop their bickering long enough to fend off a murderous robot, an explosive meteor shower, and lizard-like aliensà and get back home in time for tea?Product Identifiers
ProducerScott Kroopf, Ted Field
EAN5035822954830
eBay Product ID (ePID)52961164
Product Key Features
ActorPeter Billingsley, Kristen Stewart, Dax Shepard, Jonah Bobo, Tim Robbins, Josh Hutcherson
Film/TV TitleZathura: a Space Adventure
DirectorJon Favreau
LanguageEnglish
Subtitle LanguageEnglish\Hindi
Run Time101 Mins
Aspect Ratio1.85 Wide Screen
Release Year2006
FormatDVD
FeaturesWidescreen, Commentary,\The Making of Zathura,\Visual Effects Documentary,\The Cast Featurette,\Zorgons, Robots and Frozen Lisa Featurette,\Miniatures Featurette,\The World of Chris Van Allsburg, Closed Caption, With Subtitles
Additional Product Features
Number of Discs1
CertificatePG
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited States of America
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ComposerJohn Debney
Additional InformationActor-turned-director Jon Favreau (SWINGERS, ELF) delivers another work of intelligent, charming family fare with ZATHURA: A SPACE ADVENTURE, based on the book by Chris Van Allsburg (JUMANJI). Older brother Walter (Josh Hutcherson) and the younger Danny (Jonah Bobo) are constantly at war with one another, bickering over the mediating voice of their long-suffering father (Tim Robbins). When he has to go to the office to replace some papers the boys destroyed in their crossfire, he leaves them in the dubious care of older sister Lisa (Kristen Stewart), who is sleeping upstairs. When Danny discovers an old board game called Zathura stored in the basement, his excitement is lost on Walter, who has no time for such old, boring toys. Soon, however, the game becomes impossible to ignore, as the boys are transported into space, and one of them must win in order to make it home again. Each turn brings a new, often dangerous, surprise, and the boys are faced with a murderous robot, an explosive meteor shower, and lizard-like aliens, while poor Lisa is cryogenically frozen early in the game. The adventure yields some heartwarming, family-friendly life lessons, and Dax Shepard (IDIOCRACY) is unusually subdued in his role as a stranded astronaut.
ReviewsNew 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., Entertainment Weekly - ZATHURA is a rarity: a stellar fantasy that faces down childhood anxieties with feet-on-the-ground maturity, 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...
ScreenwriterDavid Koepp, John Kamps
AuthorChris Van Allsburg
Format DescriptionDVD 9
Sound sourceDolby Digital Surround 5.1
Movie/TV TitleZathura: A Space Adventure