Zathura Critic Reviews
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Zathura is a rarity: a stellar fantasy that faces down childhood anxieties with feet-on-the-ground maturity.Read the full review
It works gloriously as space opera.Read the full review
The movie harks back to a time before state-of-the-art technology when writers and directors had to rely mostly on imagination.Read the full review
Will work better for younger viewers than older ones. There's not much plot to absorb and there's plenty of action, so this is the kind of spectacle that will appeal to those without long attention spans.Read the full review
Favreau again delivers that rare beast -- a family film that even childless adults can enjoy.Read the full review
Its unwieldy title notwithstanding, Zathura: A Space Adventure is arguably the best adaptation of a Chris Van Allsburg book to date.Read the full review
This handmade feel gives Zathura an appealing, childlike sense of wonder, an element too often forgotten in movies with many times the budget and technological resources.Read the full review
In the enchanted limbo between waking and sleeping, Zathura feels both real and unreal, like a dream you could shake off at any moment.Read the full review
The movie has a lot of the elements that might make it thrilling and it's visually arresting, but it's missing the emotional connection necessary to make it interesting.Read the full review
Director Jon Favreau, who dipped profitably into family entertainment with 2003's "Elf," effectively recreates the illustrative universe of a good children's book, but he's stuck with a story that noisily grinds its gears.Read the full review
