Zathura: A Space Adventure story
Zathura: A Space Adventure (also known simply as Zathura) is a 2005 American science fiction adventure film directed by Jon Favreau. It is an adaptation of the 2002 children's book Zathura by Chris Van Allsburg, author of the 1981 children's book Jumanji. It is a standalone spin-off of the 1995 film Jumanji and the second installment of the Jumanji franchise. Synopsis: Two young brothers find a mysterious board game in the basement, which transports their house into outer space. Along with their older sister and an astronaut, they try to survive the game so they can return home.
25 total · 2 choice · 6 major · 17 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| brother and brother | choice | The story is about the two quarreling brothers Walter and Danny coming to a better appreciation of one another as they work together to survive a space adventure-themed board game in which they'd become trapped. |
| what if I was trapped inside a game | choice | A main novelty of the story concerns the two young brothers Walter and Danny finding themselves trapped inside the titular space adventure board game "Zathura". |
| brother and sister | major | While the plot centered on the young brothers Walter and Danny, their teenager Lisa was there being annoyed by them more or less throughout the story. |
| extraterrestrial being | major | The Zorgon reptilian aliens served as the film's main antagonists. |
| reptilian being | major | The Zorgon reptilian aliens, described as "big gnarly lizards", served as the film's main antagonists. |
| resentment | major | Walter blamed his mom and dad getting divorced on his younger brother Danny and resented him because of it. |
| sibling rivalry | major | The story follows the two quarreling kid brothers Walter and Danny as they become trapped inside a space adventure-themed board game. |
| tabletop games | major | The story concerns two young brothers finding an old space adventure-themed board game that transported their house into outer space once they started playing it. To get everything back to normal, the boys needed to play the game, which was somehow conjuring things into reality, through to completion without losing their necks along the way. |
| black hole | minor | The Zorgon fleet and the house was consumed by a black hole. |
| cheating | minor | Danny was a reprobate cheater at games, board games or otherwise, according to his older brother Walter. |