Doc Smartypants, Larry, and I saw Juman...er, Zathura last night. There were some definite good things about it: We saw it for free. The astronaut was cute. The special effects were great. I want to live in a house like that in the worst way. But in the end I found it a disappointing movie.
- Scary parts that aren’t scary: the entrance of the astronaut, for instance.
- Really obnoxious kids: flip, bratty, dim.
- Gratuitous teenage girl: totally irrelevant to the plot, even more of a cardboard stereotype than the boys.
- Tim Robbins wasted: what a dud role. (But I did like it when he finally blew up at the boys. See #2.)
- Why does the astronaut wear a space suit if you can breathe in space?
- Spoiler: It was totally lame who the astronaut turns out to be.
- Spoiler: The special effects just after you find out who the astronaut is were lame, lame, lame.
- Preachy, moralistic, predictable.
- The sound was too loud.
- There was an asshole sitting behind me who talked all the way through.