One Paragraph Review: Zathura

Totally unremarkable, Zathura appears to be fully aware of it's own banality. The plot is boring and predictable, the directing is robotic, special effects are corny and cheap, the script is ho-hum, the dialog is blah - in fact, it's surprising that cast actually does a good job with what it's given. Perhaps I shouldn't be surprised at the lack of originality given that the movie is basically a carbon copy of Jumanji, but set in space. Really, this is just a bland movie, so unless the kids are picking the movie or you were fanatically obsessed with Jumanji for some reason, don't go out of your way to see this.