Zathura: The Better Jumanji
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- From the creators of Jumanji, we got one of the best spin-off movies named "Zathura" to ever exist. Is it BETTER than Jumanji? We think so, watch our video to find out why idk.
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Zathura: A Space Adventure - 2005
After their father (Tim Robbins) is called into work, two young boys, Walter (Josh Hutcherson) and Danny (Jonah Bobo), are left in the care of their teenage sister, Lisa (Kristen Stewart), and told they must stay inside. Walter and Danny, who anticipate a boring day, are shocked when they begin playing Zathura, a space-themed board game, which they realize has mystical powers when their house is shot into space. With the help of an astronaut (Dax Shepard), the boys attempt to return home.
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Wow
dont forget to *lick* the video
Ok
I’ll do one of those.
Both good options
I like how people complain that this movie is a ripoff of Jumaji even though both movies are based on books, both of which were written by the same dude he just wrote a book about jungle themed board game and a different one about space themed board game so if anything the author ripped off himself
Remember kids, it's not plagiarism if you copy from yourself!
It's a board game cinematic universe!
I think it's more how what happens in Zathura feels like everything that happened in Jumanji. Person trapped in the game, attacked by a scary thing that gets trapped in the house (Lion in Jumanji, robot in Zathura), being hunted by someone trying to destroy the board game (aliens, big game hunter whatever his name was). The author copying himself isn't an excuse for an adaptation to not do something different.
@@Nekufan1000000 And both have a character much older than the protagonists that played the board game and never escaped, now returning to help our child heroes. Except in Zathura, instead of just being straightforward, they decide to make it a twist that honestly didn't need to be that confusing.
@@kwasibrew8072 i liked the twist, made sense, like what if instead of some random guy it was yourself in an alternate timeline who made the wrong choice.
That meteor smashing grandma's urn while the kid just nonchalantly says "grandma, noo" is the most hard-core scene in a kids movie ever.
It was fucking hard as shit
Can't wait for the sequel to Zathara set 30 years later with like none of the original characters and in a video game to come out
Why wish for none of the original cast? I feel like the (30th Anniversary) sequel would be the perfect place for Kristen Stewart to try and reboot her career.
True, but atleast Dwayne Johnson will be hilarious.
@@jasonkeith2832 I thought she was doing a lot recently
That still would be enjoyable
That will still amazingly be a good movie. And then a sequel to that sequel will also come out and will also shockingly be a good movie
"He's been in space for 15 years, he shouldn't look at good as he does"
In space, you age significantly slower. This is an actual fact
No gravity no wrinkles
I thought you aged slower only as long as you travel near the speed of light. Kinda like in Gunbuster.
I like that they implied he looked too young to be 24-25 bc Dax Shepard was actually 30 when this movie came out.
Nope. You misunderstood how relativity works. 😂 It's not about space, it's about speed. It's also not about age, it's about how you experience time.
@@joelandrewgibson4820It’s because wrinkles are produced by gravity, and space has none. I know exactly which concept you’re referring to and it’s the wrong one.
Movie: Puts children in space and almost kills them multiple times.
Also movie: C R A F T M A C N C H E E S E
Tell me about Macs mac and cheese
“Floaty space house. WHEEEEEEE!!!”
k*
It is Kraft Dinner
Craft Mac n cheese? CRAFT MAC N CHEESE!!!!!!!!! ITS KRAFT!
11:34 No no! Danny didn't cheat! Walter accused him of cheating, and in pure pressure Danny said he might have done it. Walter than moves his piece back which was in fact cheating.
I have sibilings, this is a legit tactic for kids to do. Accuse the other of cheating and then do something to make it more "fair" in doing so you yourself cheat.
Edit: it could also be Walter's memory being wrong and thinking the piece was somewhere else and moved it back. Still cheating though.
Yeah, exactly
Actually Danny apologized to Walter for cheating.
So he basically gaslit him
11:28 the stock break sound!
"You're an imaginative child, that means no one else understands you"
Jude didn't have to call me out like that
I know, it hurts.
Ikr
get roasted
*autistic agony*
I feel like Josiah's editing skills every so often decide to just *skyrocket*
Jack Black has actually expressed interest in working on a Zathura sequel.
I look forward to that day.
Zathura: welcome to space, now with the rock!
now with the meteor
Now with Kevin hart!
Now with Karen Gillian
Now with more plot holes!
These dudes speaking the TRUTH! Will always love this movie more than Jumanji. Don't get me wrong, Robin Williams is a treasure, but Zathura will be the better movie to me.
Wait, something I liked as a kid wasn't terrible?
I know right
Same
Nani!?
Mood
Same
10:25 "Ah, the house here seems to be made of house."
-Brendan 2022
"She's frozen in cryonic sleep."
*pulls out bottle of hairspray and a match*
makes sense tho. gotta git that sh!t back up to 98.6 F
Literally went from "Oh no she's frozen" to "BURN THE HERETIC!"
@Snowstorm918 For the emperor
@@theoriginalredbirdgamer3607 FOR THE EMPEROR
For the Emperor indeed, though I have heard that one of you are heretic
I love the small detail starting at 4:45 where they’re all in space to reflect the movie lol
The whole rant about how you'd get groceries in space SENT ME.
To space
@@cypher838 Indeed. It's pretty wild up here.
Yeah I was dead at this point
Communist candy, they're made in the only place that hasn't been corrupted by capitalism
@@diamondknight8587 so what does the afterlife look like?
My little brother: deletes my Minecraft world
Me: 11:14
I love that they completely glossed over the part where the sister basically had the hots for her brother.
This could in fact be an alternate Alabama universe
Also, did the sister die??? Because I forgot
@@guardian6975 no
🎶SWEET HOME ALABAMA🎶
@@ArividerchiMagmuasue darn
11:24 you know the drill
I’m still waiting for “Zathura: Welcome to the galaxy”
Starring danny devito as astronaute
_Zathura: Here Comes the Sun_
Yea instead of it being all lizards and killer robots they have an intergalactic warlord or someone
@@adalbertoortiz450 I think you mean stranded astroturf
Zathura: The Next Turn
The thing that sets these movies apart is how in Jumanji, they bring the board game into real life, while in Zathura, they bring the characters into the board game.
these children just watched their grandma's ashes explode and their first reaction is ''oH nO!!1!11!''
Grandma!
Bye bye grandma 😔
@@Gen-ZChristian
She's broken!
Maybe they took more time after the meteor shower, or maybe she died before they where born. You don't know
I remember seeing this once on netflix as a small child, and years later thought it was an obscure movie or something
Compared to Jumanji this is honestly the only movie that would actually benefit from a sequel/reboot since there’s so many things they can do with it cause SPACE
Plus the film added world building elements like the aliens. Jumanji didn't really do that...at first
THE ONE PLACE NOT YET TOUCHED BY CAPITALISM!
@@llmkursk8254 elon musk disagrees
SPAAAAAAAAACE
@@spartanking9807 I think we've established that there are stars in space.
i used to be terrified of this movie, i was scared that my house was just gonna float into space
Me: *Looks at title*
Also me who has never seen this movie or the original movie, but has heard great things about the first one and has heard absolutely nothing about to second one: Well, that's debatable.
Dude same
The first and second one aren't that good in my opinion
Hiya Steph fancy seeing you here
Wait, Zathura had a sequel?
First off, huge fan of the videos, you guys are so funny and you know your stuff on a good movie/bad movie…
I have been listening to youtube as background noise lately while playing games so I have been letting your videos play just over and over, that sound effect near 6:38
It was a nice touch in the video of course lol but it made my night of playing Breath of the Wild all the more funny because that sound played the second Link had finished appearing from a ball of light like “boom” Link’s here
Any way love the movie reviews, can’t wait for more!
This movie was deemed as a knockoff even though it's really not because both Jumanji and Zathura were both based on books by the same author
Ah yes. ☄ Self-plagarism ☄
@@Takejiro24 zathura is the sequel to jumanji (the books)
15:00 is better without context
It's worse if you close your eyes
"Court adjourned, this guy's an idiot" is literary perfection
0:44 That harmonization was gold lol
"Oh no! Grandma!"
IS IT BAD THAT I COUGHED UP A LUNG FROM THIS!?
No man the kid’s reaction is hilarious! 😂🤣
Grandma turned into fire! Again!
I watched this movie over 20 times as a kid and never understood that line. Recently rewatched it though and it made me laugh out loud
*y e s*
It might be all the dust and ashes.
As a dad of a 6 and a 9 year old. Their dynamic is so accurate. My 9 year old over a 6 week span became a 28 year old mounted with crippling debt and a jaded world view that finds joy in taking away his little brother's happiness 😂😂😂
My personal theory with Zathura and Jumanji is that if you lose you go back to where you were before you started playing the same as if you won, because you know, it's a game?
Maybe you gotta play till you won, died, or got stuck lol
@@yourneighborhoodxenos Well we see in Jumanji :Welcome to the Jungle that one guy got stuck with one life left and stayed there for something like 30 years
Thank god someone recognized this as the superior game board based movie. Quite possibly one of my favorite movies of all time. Also as an older brother I can confirm all the stuff about the siblings fighting over the dumbest stuff is real. Also as a once angsty teen very into rock and metal, yes, I would and still sometimes do sleep to rock/metal.
They actually have a decent cast for this film I don’t know how but they do
The older sister is Kristen Stewart
"I am stuck in space, I just got attacked by a robot, and my sister is frozen. I want Kraft." best line I've ever heard in the entire world.
8:04 "3 Billion Dollars For A...McChicken!"
I can't get enough of that!
And the macaroni rocket 🤣 powered by g fuel
I love how hilarious Bren is when he’s angry
2:30 the interaction here is actually really funny
FUN Fact TIMEEEEEEE: the older brother was actually Peta from The hunger games.
Peta is from family guy, dumbass.
He also was the kid who wanted to get with Zooey Deschanel and because of that his friend fell into a ravine and drowned to death.
I knew he looked familiar
He is also from RV
3:27
Me: wait, it was green screen?
Josiah: always has been.
It’s only a green screen in a few scripted vids, in recent videos he’s interacting with the set so it’s not a background
Who else wants to see them do the live action Scooby Doo movies
Yes
Zathura was actually written by the same person who wrote Jumanji. Zathura is actually supposed to be Jumanji 2 since the book says the Jumanji game changes with the times to be more appealing with the space theme.
When jude did the rant about saying "Take evasive action" in kids movies, I really wanted to just show them saying it in this movie to make him mad.
Also yes phone, I did mean to say "dis" instead of "did". Exactly right.
7:41 "Guys, why do you wanna go home? You ARE home! You're just in space!"
This feels like an accurate representation of me and my younger brother
And that makes the ending kinda cry worthy because they actually got along in the end
1:32 this is literally the sound of my ac and it scared me lol
"Are you just gonna sleep to metal?" I mean, that's what I do
I fell asleep to cannibal corpse once
@@sailorhatphilosopher9149 for me it's Metallica as my parent played it to me as a baby
Sunn o))) is actually great sleep music
@@sailorhatphilosopher9149 same
I sleep to 5fdp all th' time
7:25
Hi! Expert here.
this is because of the will of god
“Mom! Can we go see the new Jumanji?”
Mom: “no, we have Jumanji at home.”
Jumanji at home:
This is rich home Jumanji
Zahara is just the Soviet Russia equivalent for Jumanji.
This is better than new Jumanji.
it’s made by the person who made jumanji
@@RalseiGaming I'm glad someone else has that knowledge. Everyone always forgets that the guy who wrote Jumanji also wrote the book based on this film too.
12:14 🎶What are you at getting terribly fat?🎶
What do you think will come,of,that?!?!
@@Trainboi1983I don’t like the look of it
@@Bacteriaboi29 Oompa loompa doopa dee doo
It’s kind of surreal seeing very young Kristen Stewart
Catch that Kid, the Disney Channel heist-like movie from 2004. When I realized that was her much much later, I questioned childhood just a bit lmao.
I watched the movie once as a kid, and it left such an impression on me I remembered it for years. Except no one believed me this movie existed since I didnt remember the title. Finding it years later left me wish such vindication.
"We finally decided to do a good movie"
Veggietales:Am I a joke to you?
It's still unironicly funny
they both have something in common
i watched them in church as a kid
9:17 ... wasn't she downstairs? How'd she get back up in the bathroom?
They moved her back in the movie but they didn't show that in the video
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The satire of these kids being kids is actually gold
Josiah: "Are you just going to sleep to metal?"
Me, who falls asleep listening to metal: "Yes?"
I remember watching this on cartoon network a couple of times as a kid and then thinking this was just Jumanji that I was watching. I never caught the beginning so that's probably why I thought it was a sequel or something. It wasn't until recently that I actually watched Jumanji and was like "wait. This isn't anything like what I remembered" and I could never find it. Thanks for bringing this memory out for me. This also reminds me the time when Disney channel put a movie about alien dogs and labled it as the princess diaries, so I had a difficult time trying to find it. I eventually did but forgot what it was called
"We live in a microwave society, where Zathura is better than Jumanji, for the better"
-B R E A D
12:38 S E V E N T E E N M I LL I O N K E L V E N
Dude this movie was my life back then. Jumanji and space in one movie, fucking heaven.
i had almost schizophrenic episodes of seeing the board game, and then 3 years of this, my friend after talking to him about it says, "you mean Zathura" and i reached the plane of existence that even GODS wish of being at
When I first saw Zahtura and Jumanji they scared me so much that I thought they were horror movies
zahtura scared me more as a kid because of the idea of being all alone in space. because if you were stuck in a jungle, you would at least have the basic nescicities to survive.
thank god i wasn't the only one who had an irrational childhood fear of both of these movies
Jude is just talking about living in space and bread all of a sudden got mad for no reason whatsoever and I love it. 7:55
Saw this in theaters. This is basically Jumanji 1.5, and i love it.
4:55 obviously the game board creates some sort of breathable atmosphere
this is a certified hood classic
14:26 ah yes, übermenchen.
-Adofl hitlor
Once again, like with Spy Kids before, do the Planes sequel
Planes had a sequel? Jesus.
What's next from Disney's vehicular department? Boats!!
@@TheHufflepuffSaint *MONORAILS*
@@sh1ft4t0nal then the planes,trains, and automobiles by Disney would be complete.
@@chiefspartan02 cars with train wheels
@@guidedexplosiveprojectileg9943 thomas the TANK
2:50 This is when I was realized that I have, in fact, seen this movie. I've just forgotten.
@12:06 You have a nice voice! :) And your Oompa Loompa impression is creepy! LOL. Love y'all's videos!
Best comment ever
12:08 lost it
1:15 He’s saying he wants to play super smash bros, yet he’s holding PlayStation 2 controllers.
When I was like 9 I used to play my Zathura DVD every night before bed through my PlayStation 3 and would get half way through the movie and fell asleep.
THIS FILM WAS LITERALLY MY CHILDHOOD THANKS SO MUCH FOR DOING A VIDEO ON IT
Y’all should watch the last mimsy, it’s a wild movie with rainn Wilson and it’s a time
It's a pretty good movie. I remember some DVDs came with the doll.
Lot of Rainn Wilson recommendations
Funny I remember not liking it as a kid or maybe I was just too young to understand it
This comment hit me like a brick. Man, I remember loving this film
You know that feeling when it’s late and your watching something and can’t seem to understand anything
That is what this video is doing to me
You guys should watch The Rocker starring Rainn Wilson from The Office.
I was just reminded of that! I feel like I liked it as a kid... But... Who knows now🤣🤣
I forgot that movie existed
I just watched that movie for the first time. I liked it.
I hope you guys do The Mitchells Vs The Machines, a good movie with amazing jokes and hilarious and sad moments. Its amazing.
"She's going to listen to green day and shower and be as edgy as you can be in 2003"
*me doing that in 2021 twerking depressively*
the sfx for the robot in this are underappreciated tbh imagine if they had just used cgi
This movie is almost all practical effects. The harpoons, the aliens, all real.
Forget Dwane Johnson, little kids with a unused sister and one of them not sounding like their from fourth grade is better
The bullshit jumanji sequel had dwane Johnson. You know the first movie didn’t, right?
The fact that Dwayne Johnson was in the reboots with his "comedic" acting ruined the reboots entirely.
The main high point of the original was Robin Williams. And at least the first one was original much like Zathura as they were written by the same guy...
Whereas the Jumanji Reboots was nothing but cash grab for sake of nostalgia.
@@desmondcoppin591 I know but some people liked the sequel and the original
Edit: not to piss anyone off
@@TheHufflepuffSaint honestly I still find the Dwayne Johnson reboot fun, I'm not as die hard about this one 90s kids movie. The fact that Dwayne changed up the type of game Jumanji was rather clever, since not many people nowadays even play board games. And to me, I will always find the reboots better
When I was a kid I remember going to a toy store in the mall with my dad and seeing this game and getting so scared of it. I was legit worried that the movie would be real if I played it.
“Go get me a juice box biatch!”
Criminally underrated channel
They’re getting better with editing and I love it. They’re more engaging and even more self aware.
I saw this movie when I was a little kid, and thought it was a fever dream for the longest time until I happened upon the dvd a whole decade later
9:57
THAT WAS A PERFECT TIME TO SAY “HI, WE’VE BEEN TRYING TO REACH YOU ABOUT YOU EXTENDED CAR WARRANTY.” LIKE COMON MAN
EXACTLY
"What, is ELON going to send up a ROCKET to get you ARBY'S!? *DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE DELIVERY FEE WOULD BE ON THAT!?!!* It'd be like 3 [slap slap] BILLION DOLLARS FOR LIKE A MCCHICKEN!!!!"
"Meteor shower, take evasive action."
Don't you mean, **take evasive maneuvers?**
2:23
Me: (skinner voice) Yes
4:09 that made me laugh way too hard😂
Danny gramma
Me I ate my gramma! 4:10
2:36
*Water.*
This was one of my favorite movies as a kid! Honesty, still not bad.
3:52 *jude just has a ptsd flashback in the corner*
The more I watch these Microwave Society videos these days, the more I see Josiah being the bad sfx critic. He’s watched too much Corridor Crew!
1:15 I like how this kid asks to play super smash bros, when he’s literally holding PlayStation 2 controllers in his hand.
The only good thing Jumanji had was the fantastic Robin Williams, this is actually a very good movie to me
I can't believe that the kid named Walter in this movie ended up being Mike Schmidt in the five nights at Freddy's movie
*God, I fucking love this movie. Period. Always.*