MOVIE REPORT 4

DINA ULFA DESTA SAFDA

1300929

K4-2013

ZATHURA

(2005)

A.   Synopsis

Zathura are closeups of an old science fiction board game, a game that should have existed in real life. Zathura is a board game. To play is simple, wind it up, push a button and watch a number come up, this determines the number of spaces your playing piece will take. Two rockets chase each other around the twisting path. After your piece moves, a card pops up. The card describes the action to follow. The unique thing of this game is it will be happen in a real life. In this movie, two children, Danny and Walter, are playing this game and one by one something strange happened. Their house even fly in the space and they should achieve the finish line to make it comeback to the beginning.

Plot

Introduction

There Danny discovers the Zathura board game and tries to get Walter to play it with him. Walter would rather watch sports on TV. Danny plays by himself. The game is an ingenious metal contraption; you wind it up and push a button, and your little car moves around a track, and the game emits a card for you to read. Danny has Walter help him read it: Meteor Shower. Take Evasive Action. Just about then the meteors start showering, sizzling through the living room ceiling and drilling through the floor, pulverizing coffee tables and floor lamps. The living room is pulverized, but Danny and Walter are untouched. They run around as if evading meteors, but actually the meteors evade them. Incredible things will happen while they play Zathura, but they will survive. That helps explain why they can still breathe when they open the front door and discover that their house is now in orbit.

Climax

The brothers take turns. The game is inexhaustible. Another card reads,Shipmate Enters Cryonic Sleep Chamber. This means that their sister Lisa, who likes to sleep past noon, has been frozen into immobility in the upstairs bathroom. Other cards produce (a) a fearsome but badly coordinated robot, whose designers spent more time on its evil glowing red eyes than on its memory chips, (b) giant alien lizards who are directly from the pulp scifi tradition of bug eyed monsters, (c) assault fire from spaceships that look like junkyard porpoises. They house almost destroy by zorgon. The first way to finish this game is they should keep play the game.

Resolution

Danny take his turn and there is ten step close the finish line. When Danny was playing the zorgon keep shoot their house. And a card said descent into a black hole. As the two kids hang on for dear life and lizards get sucked into the black hole. Danny and Walter are obviously not going to get hurt. Alien fire blasts away whole chunks of their house, but never the chunks they're in, and the giant lizards seem more preoccupied with overacting than with eating little boys. The situation back to the beginning like nothing happened there. However, their mind keep remember the adventure game.

  

B.   Genre of the Movie

Adventure, Science Fiction and Family Movie

C.   Character

Danny            : He is six years old child who always curious about something. He also brave, kind,  and obidient person. He also a careless child. He like to take Walter’s attention to play with him. He can’t read yet. However, he is a lovely younger brother for Walter. 

Walter             : He is ten years old who likes football. He is bad-tempered but he actually kind and loves his younger brother, Danny. He has a bad attitude and doesn’t want to admit his fault. Walter also a smart kid and always protects Danny.

Lisa                 : Lisa is Danny and Walter’s older sister. She doesn’t like her brothers bothering her life. She has bad-tempered and a coquettish girl.

Astronaut      : he actually adult Walter. He comes from Danny’s card and help the brothers to finish the game. He is kind, brave and helpful person.

D.   Expressing of the Movie

Astronaut       : “Dude, you’re meat.” (he said that to Danny because the lizards like to eat meat. However, Danny didn’t realize that)

Walter             : “There’s no water, dummy, we’re in outer space.” (Walter wants to warn Danny)

Lisa                 : “You guys actually set the house on fire?” (It means Lisa thinks that their brothers burn their house)

Danny                        : “You’re gonna leave us alone in this creepy old house?” (Danny said that to his father because he doesn’t want his father go)

Danny                        : “Wow! Outer space!”

Walter             : “No.. It’s just nighttime.”

(They do not believe that the game is real happen)

Walter             : “You’re such a baby!” (Walter said that to Danny because he always cries and whine)

Walter             : “Fascinating!”

Lisa                 : “I’ll never leave you.” (Lisa said that to her brothers)

E.   Comments

The movie is visually stunning. The discovery by the children, that their house has been transported to a location in outer space, hovering above a ring of meteors that encircle a large planet, is jaw dropping. The effects are real enough to imply danger, but logic is not a function of children's games, so it does not matter that oxygen, gravity and warmth still exist in the house, even as it is blasted apart by various forces.

While funny and exciting, it is never preachy, Zathura is intelligently written and directed, this is a great family film. We can feel the real space adventure and tighten atmosphere when we watch this movie.

Moral Value

From this movie, we can learn how teamwork solve their problem. The choice only two: keep struggling or die. We also learn do not careless to try something new. We should confront  any kinds of problem that we get.