When two kids play an old magic board-game they found, they release a man trapped for decades in it and a host of dangers that can only be stopped by finishing the game.
After being trapped in a jungle board game for 26 years, a Man-Child wins his release from the game. But, no sooner has he arrived that he is forced to play again, and this time sets the creatures of the jungle loose on the city. Now it is up to him to stop them.
Written by Joshua Davis <xtnb64a@prodigy.com>
Though the plot differs greatly from that of the book on which it is based, the ending of the film is very similar, in which the game is found by two other young children. In the book, the two children who find the game at the end are named Walter and Danny, the main characters from
Zathura: A Space Adventure.
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Goofs
Plot holes:
It's strange that when the game is finished, all the wild animals (as well as Van Pelt) get sucked back into the game, yet the wild plants and vines don't seem to. (For that matter, we don't even see the pelicans, monkeys, spiders or crocodile inside the "tornado" either.)
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Quotes
Exterminator:
Bats aren't what I worry about in this house anyway. Judy Shepherd:
What would you worry about? Exterminator:
Well, personally, I wouldn't want to live in a house where someone was murdered. Judy Shepherd:
Murdered? Exterminator:
Yep, little Alan Parrish. I'd say his father did it. There's 1,001 places he could've hid the body in this house - especially if he chopped it up first. See more »
"Locomotive Breath"
(1971) Written by Ian Anderson Performed by Jethro Tull Courtesy of Chrysalis Records, a division of EMI Under license from CEMA Special Markets
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