Hey Guys, welcome back to the channel. In today’s video we will be watching a movie
titled “Zathura: A Space Adventure” from the year 2005. So, let’s get started. Turn
on subtitles and spoilers ahead. The movie starts and we see a father playing
catch with his two sons: Danny and Walter. These two brothers, just like many other siblings,
don't get along very well.
Danny and Walter are always trying to be better than each other. Their father tries to console
Danny, who thinks that he is a loser. His father tells him that he is very different
from his brother and he has a great imagination. Walter eavesdrops and hears this, which makes
him jealous of his brother. Later, both Danny and Walter want their dad
to play with them. But he says that he doesn’t have much time to play around and also informs
them that their mother will soon be there to pick them up. Their parents had a divorce
so now they spend a few days with mom and a few with their dad. Their father receives
an urgent call for a meeting. He leaves them alone and goes to his room to get his work
done. Now, Danny tries to get his brother to play
with him and after some effort, Walter finally agrees. Danny accidentally breaks Walter’s
walkie-talkie which makes Walter furious. Danny hides behind his father saying it was
an accident. The two kids get into an argument, and Danny accidentally spills a drink all
over an important design for his father’s work. And now, their father has to go to his
office and get another print.
He asks Danny and Walter’s elder sister Lisa to babysit the boys while he is gone
to the office. She tries to avoid this by saying she has a date later that day, but
he tells her that there is still time for that, so for now, she needs to babysit her
brothers. Her father leaves and Lisa goes back to take another nap.
Bored in the house, Danny starts playing with the ball and he accidentally hits Walter on
his face which makes him mad. He runs after Danny, who tries to run away from the wrath
of his older brother. Walter eventually finds him in the small secret
lift in their house, and he decides to punish his younger brother by sending the lift down
to the basement. Danny is really scared of the basement, and he tries to run away from
there. But he stumbles upon an old board game named Zathura. He comes to show it to Walter,
who is uninterested in anything his brother is doing, and thinks that the game is too
childish.
So, Danny decides to play the game alone. He starts the game without reading the instructions
and when he presses the go button, a dial shows that he got 5. Then, a small spaceship
in the game moves 5 steps forward, and then a card pops out of the game. Danny takes the
card out, which reads “Meteor Shower, Take evasive action”. Walter doesn’t think
much about it, believing it’s just a stupid game. But, suddenly a small piece of meteor
falls from the sky into their living room. And pretty soon, the room gets a massive meteor
shower, which has the two brothers running around to not get hit. Lisa is sleeping with
loud music on her headphones, so she has no idea what’s going on. Walter and Danny rush
and take cover inside the chimney. When the meteors finally stop falling, they realize
that the meteors fell only in their living room. They also notice the stars in the sky,
which look very real and up close.
They open the door of their house, and to their surprise, they realize that they are
actually in space. Their entire house is now floating just outside the rings of the planet
Saturn. The kids are scared after this shocking discovery
and they rush to their older sister, Lisa. They tell her everything about the game, but
Lisa obviously doesn’t believe them. Walter shows her that their house was in space, but
Lisa believes that is just night time. She thinks that it’s time for her date and starts
prepping for that. The kids try to show her how the game works
but she has no interest at all. They then discover that they need to take
turns in playing this game and it can’t be played by just one person. They start the
game for the second time and now the card reads “Shipmate enters chronic sleep chamber
for 5 turns”. Both of them are players, which means that the shipmate is their sister
Lisa. They open the bathroom door, and see the room completely covered with snow.
They also find their sister frozen still: in chronic sleep state as the game said earlier.
Walter tries to warm her and bring her back, but Danny stops him saying it will only kill
her. They now read the game’s instructions carefully
and realize that they must play this game right till the end, to get everything back
to normal. Danny takes his turn, and this time the card reads “Your Robot is defective”.
Then a small robot shows up in front of them, but this small and seemingly harmless robot
quickly transforms into a giant Robotic killer machine and starts to attack them.
To get rid of the robot, Danny plays his turn, and this time, the card takes them near to
a massive star which starts to pull the house towards it, through its gravitational power.
Due to this, Danny and Walter hold on for dear lives, and luckily, the robot falls down
onto the basement before almost getting hold of Walter. Soon, their house starts moving
away from the star, and they once again manage to stay alive. Their sister’s frozen body
also skids from the stairs and comes downstairs, where they’re playing the game.
They place their sister’s body back in the bathroom, believing she’ll be safe in there.
Now, Danny is reluctant to play this game as he is not happy with Walter’s rude behavior
and moreover, he is really scared. They then realize that the gas and electricity are still
functioning properly.
Walter apologizes and convinces his brother to play the game.
Danny plays the game and on his turn, the card shows them that Zorgons are coming to
visit them. The naive kids consider this a friendly visit but then, they see a big alien
ship outside their house, which is loaded with weapons and is aiming at them.
They start the game again, and this time the card tells them ‘‘REPROGRAM’’. They
think this might be a code that will make that ship go away. But to their surprise,
the ship starts firing at them. They take cover and they have no other option but to
go ahead with the game. They continue playing the game and this time
the card tells them to save the life of an astronaut. They don’t know what to do, and
soon they see an astronaut floating outside their house in his suit. They are too scared
to open the door for him, but the astronaut enters the house without any formal invitation.
He tells the kids that they need to hide the house to save themselves from the attacks
of Zorgons. He orders them to turn off all the heat emitting electrical and gas equipment.
He then sets their living room couch on fire and throws it out in the space. Now the Zorgons,
which he describes as heat-loving and meat-eating Lizards like aliens, turn their ship and start
chasing the couch on fire.
The astronaut is very hungry since he hasn’t had any real food for almost 15 Years. He
goes to the kitchen and eats almost all of their available food supplies. Walter gets
worried and asks him to leave their house. But the astronaut refuses to go and tells
Walter that he will only leave if Danny asks him to, since he came in the house because
of the card that Danny drew. Danny acknowledges his help in getting rid of the aliens, and
lets him stay.
They once again start the game, and Walter accuses Danny of cheating. Danny denies it,
but Walter doesn’t believe him at all. The two brothers start to argue with each other.
Walter forcefully sets Danny’s ship back to its original position. He then starts the
game and the next card tells him that he will be ejected. Since he was the one who messed
with the game, he received the punishment. He then suddenly gets sucked out of the house
through the roof, by a very strong gravitational force. Danny tries to save him but his plan
fails. The astronaut wears his special suit and goes into space to save Walter. He manages
to get back Walter, and saves his life.
Meanwhile, Lisa, after completing the five turns in the game, finally wakes up from her
long-frozen sleep. She again starts all the electrical and heating appliances in the house,
which were earlier turned off to get rid of the Zorgons.
After the near death experience, Walter is very eager to finish the game as soon as possible
and be done with all this madness. Walter gets a golden card on his turn of the game
which states that he can have one of his wishes fulfilled as a shooting star passes by. The
astronaut comes close to Walter as he sees the shooting star. The astronaut is worried
because he thinks Walter is going to make a wish which he will later regret. So he advises
him not to wish what he is thinking at that moment. But Walter doesn’t pay any attention
to him, and makes his wish.
The astronaut now rushes to Danny’s room to check on him. Since he doesn’t infd Danny
in his room, he thinks Walter wished for his brother to disappear from his life. He asks
Walter about his wish and it turns out he only wished for a football signed by his favorite
celebrity. Danny was just hiding under the bed. He gets out and asks Walter why he didn’t
just wish for the game to end so they could go back to Earth.
Walter answers that since he was being pressured by the constant yelling of the astronaut,
he could not think straight. Now the astronaut explains why he was worried
about Walter’s wish. He tells them that 15 years ago, he played the same game with
his brother. And at the time when he got the wish card, he was so mad at his brother that
he wished his younger brother was never born. His brother vanished and because the game
required two players, he got stuck for the next 15 years until Walter and Danny played
the game: which brought him to their house. When they all go downstairs to play the game,
they find that a chunk of their house has been taken away by the Zorgons to fulfil their
need for heat. And the room in which the game was in, is in the part of the house which
was being taken away. They start breaking wood to start a fire.
And when Lisa finally comes downstairs, she finds them starting a huge fire. She quickly
puts off the fire, since she has no clue about the whole situation. Moreover, she was supposed
to babysit them and prevent them from causing any harm to themselves and the house. The
astronaut explains the whole situation to her.
A little later, the Zorgons arrive at their house and start taking pieces out of the house
chunk by chunk. They rush upstairs and try to come up with a solution. The Astronaut
gives them the walkie-talkie and says that he will go and try to get the game back. LIsa,
along with her brothers listen closely to the walkie talkie, to get any sort of update
from the astronaut. But after some time he comes back and tells
them that he couldn’t get the game because the whole basement was crowded with Zorgons.
Lisa, who is developing a little crush on him, tells him that he tried his best. Now
Danny proposes that there is another way to get to the basement by using the old elevator
which he often uses to hide from his brother.
But the only one small enough to fit in that lift is Danny himself. Danny agrees to go
and bring the game back. He gets inside the lift, and the astronaut starts to lower the
lift with the rope. But the rope gets loose from his hands and Danny crashes with the
lift to the ground. He goes to pick up the game but then realizes that the game is not
present there. It's only the box, while the actual game is in the Zorgons ship. He stealthily
moves forward and hides himself from the Zorgons. He gathers the courage and finally picks up
the game. He finally gets the game and then tries to get back up by using the lift. But
the rope tied to it is broken so they can’t pull him back. He then runs to the basement
stairs, which leads back to the main floor. A zorgon also sees him and runs after him.
Danny tries to outrun those Zorgons and just as he is about to become Zorgon’s food,
Walter opens the door and saves his brother’s life.
But they realize that there are two other aliens who are right above them. And a little
later, the robot wakes up in the basement and makes its entry. The brothers are now
stuck between a killer robot, and aliens.
The robot grabs Walter, who shows it the “Reprogram” card which he drew earlier in the game. And
surprisingly, after seeing the card, the robot starts to reprogram itself and becomes an
ally for Walter. The robot now starts attacking the aliens
in their house. Just as they are admiring how lucky this card
turned out to be for them, an alien sneaks up from behind. Just when the alien opens
its mouth to eat Walter and Danny, Lisa saves them and kills the alien by throwing a large
piece of furniture down the stairs. Together they start the game once again, and
on Danny’s turn, he gets a card telling him to go back one place in the game. On Walter’s
turn, he once again gets a shooting star card which grants him one wish.
Walter makes his wish and suddenly a small kid who looks just like Danny appears which
leaves everyone shocked. Walter says that he only wished for the astronaut to get his
brother back. The astronaut comes forward and explains that he is actually Walter from
another timeline and 15 years ago, he had wished for his brother to never be born, leading
Danny from that timeline to disappear. When the two Dannys touch their hands, they become
one and the same thing happens when the old and young Walter touch their hands. Now, the
two separate timelines have merged into one. They get attacked by the Zorgons army and
they start their game to finish it and get back home. Walter tells them that they only
require 10 points to end the game. Danny takes his turn but only manages one. Just when he
is cursing at himself for being a loser, the card comes out and it tells them that they
get 9 bonus points. This means that they get the necessary 10 points, which ends the game,
meaning that they finally will get to return back home.
The final card comes out which reads “Game Over. Thanks for playing”. The spaceships
in the game turn back to their starting place, and suddenly a black hole appears which starts
pulling everything including their house, furniture, Zorgons ships and even them. Danny
shouts that Zathura is a black hole. Lisa falls first into the Black hole and soon Danny
and Walter fall into the black hole as well. Danny opens his eyes and sees that he is now
sitting in his living room. The game is placed right next to him and his hands are placed
at the start button of the game, Walter notices this and warns him not to press that button.
They go outside and see their old neighborhood and everything in their house still intact.
They go enjoy the win and their father thinks that they are fighting. The kids start explaining
all the fun they had and how they finally managed to come back to their world. Their
father gets happy that they are finally starting to get along with each other. He informs them
that their mother will soon be arriving to take them to her house.
Danny and Walter now look very friendly after this space adventure. They even start playing
peacefully with each other. Now as the two brothers are getting into their mother’s
car, Lisa comes and tells them never to discuss what happened during that game with anyone.
The kids agree and then Walter jokes about how Lisa got a crush on his future version.
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