I once read as a child in a fable to "never cut a tree in winter". Too angry? You will harm and then regret it. Too sad? You will be pessimistic and not see things as they could be. Too happy? You will drastically overestimate the benefits of something. Too afraid? You will stay in your safe zone, despite good opportunities. It's never good to take big decisions, specially life changing ones, while overwhelmed with emotions.
"But the game wouldn't let me, cause it wasn't my turn." I never realized as a kid just how horrifying that is. The game doesn't care if you're a person. You're just a _turn._
Jumanji and Zathura are chaotic neutral forces. They don't care about people in the same way we do. Both want the players to be better people at the end of the game, but sometimes to do that they have dehumanize the players to just be turns. Zathura knew Walter needed an adult to tell him a harsh truth because he's a kid, but it also knew it had to come Walter himself. So it had to dehumanize one Walter in order to make what it needed, just like how Jumanji needed to dehumanize Alan and Sarah in order to better themselves when they meet Judy and Peter, who needed them to save their parents.
If Danny had never been born, the game wouldn't have started and yet that apparently didn't end it. This game is so cruel about resolutions of time paradoxes.
I think the game is deliberately cruel to them, as when they want to show the sister the game and they get a useless card, only to freeze her right after; when they get the Reprogram card and they cannot use it yet, or in this scene, which happens after the two brothers had a fight and immediately grants the older one a wish... I think it is implied that the game has its own way of messing with the players to make them lose.
At0mS8 that’s actually a good theory, but you gotta admit at the final spin when Danny got a 1, but would end up getting a +9 to win the game, it probably shows the game has some sense to it, also showing some pity to the players
The game like a 50/50 it more detriment how the player play which was show with both the Walter the old one played the wrong why which to us would be the bad ending were the younger one was smart to not wise danny away which ultimately help them win which is a good ending so the game was on no one side it was telling them to work together or pay a deter punish
That's usually the way little siblings are. They instinctively respect and love the older sibling, and try to follow the older sibling's example. It's a bond that the older sibling can easily find annoying, because they're not used to the responsibility of having someone depend on them for guidance.
@@silversamurai0267 Danny kinda reminds me of me when I was a kid. He never had bad intentions towards Walter. Danny just wanted him not only as a brother but also as a friend. But I feel like all Walter cared about was winning and being better than his brother. Walter was the reason Danny found the game in the first place. I can also understand Danny's frustration. No one likes to lose which is why he always cheated.
that’s how it is with little brothers. My twin brother always use to pick on and beat up our little brother. My little brother would always come back and look up to him.
Yeah, Danny wanted to build his brotherhood with Walter and he just wanted to play a game with him. The truth is, Walter was going through a childhood crisis from his parents’ divorce and he took it out on Danny, making him feel bad. That’s why the two of them were fighting a lot.
I feel like people don't give this movie enough credit. It's so legit. The effects are amazing. I hope a sequel is made one day, like with the Jumanji sequels.
Artzie Haul movie was lame very fake and very childish especially how josh was so much of a big baby than danny lol. If you disagree then you know I'm right lol
Bowens92 that’s the great thing about this movie tho. Being a big brother means u gotta act grown and be grateful for what u got. This movie was basically for people to be more grateful and act more grown
Exactly, he wanted to stop his younger self from wishing Danny out of existence and being stuck in the game forever, and somehow, he managed to do it, obviously not as he expected
I wonder, is the astronaut really an alternate version of Walter from another timeline or is he just a part of the game to teach them both a valuable lesson?
2:55 The moment Walter started to change. He realized that he almost went past the point of no return. You can see in his face as the Astronaut is telling his story that he was literally thinking of doing the exact same thing, and it shook him to his core. He realized that he needed to start being a better brother and that he and Danny needed to work together if they wanted to get home.
While that is when he truly stopped being mean to Danny, the first time in this movie that he started caring for Danny was when he told him to get in the fireplace when the meteor shower was happening so he could be safe.
I had a similar experience like this with my brother, I was the first born, and eight years later my brother came along and stole all the attention that was rightfully mine. And even though I saw him and thought of him as nothing more than just a pain, he always looked up to me and with time he grew on me and now that we’re both mature adults we truly put our petty differences in the past and we now work and depend on each other to survive or succeed.
Plus when the Zorgons show back up and steal the game. Danny guiltily admits that it was left in the living room, while Walter is annoyed by the turn of events he doesn't lash out like he has been.
It's not a different dimension though. That would insinuate that Walter wouldn't have wished Danny's disappearance away if the astronaut wasn't there. However that's not true because the Astronaut is what caused Walter to change his wish.
@@BlazeKnight_95 Yeah he's been stuck in it for 15 years, apparently became an astronaut but passing through the time sphincter allowed him to get to the past so he could correct the mistake he made.
Thing is Walter said he was under a lot of pressure with the yelling, but the astronaut didn't even yell until AFTER the wish. But I think the delivery of that line could have been more aggressive. And when the astronaut thinks Danny is gone, I think it would have made more sense for him to just snap because he thinks the same mistake was made again. Therefore, he would grab Walter and yell "How could you do this?! He was your little brother?! It was your responsibility to look out for him! Now he's gone! HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR PARENTS WOULD FEEL ABOUT THIS?! HUH?! THIS IS THE WORST THING YOU HAVE EVER DONE IN YOUR LIFE AND YOU DON'T EVEN CARE!!! NOW WE'RE GONNA BE STUCK IN SPACE NOW FOREVER AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!!" And that would be when Danny comes out from under the bed.
@@ryanstauffer119 there should have been some deleted scenes for the dvd, so we could actually see what that scene actually would have looked like if it was real or not
2:52 - interesting how Walter looks at his brother after hearing what the Astronaut did. It's because the same thought crossed his mind, only that he didn't do it.
Mr Blue You mean you only watch it for the actors, perhaps Kristen Stewart, watching movies for actors doesn't count as watching the film lol. It never does
I remember going to the theaters as a kid with my dad to watch this. I feel in love with it and he even got me the boardgame for it. Wish I could go back and relive
for all those who wonder what happened to lisa in future walter’s time line : remember that Lisa had "fallen into cryogenic sleep for 5 turns", since Walter wished that danny disappeared, he could not play anymore, so those "5 turns" never passed, and probably Lisa was frozen forever ahaha it’s more simple than what it looks
@@jaredruff9823 although in this timeline Lisa woke up before the shooting star. Shouldn’t she woke up the same time like Walter from the future timeline?
Yeah, that is sad. By the way, I saw the movie enough times. Lisa was only frozen for four turns. So, unless you count Danny purposefully moving his piece forward and Walter moving it back as a turn, the card should’ve said, “Shipmate Enters Cryonic Sleep Chamber for 4 turns.”
The scene where the astronaut was telling Danny and Walter the story of him and his brother, it also could of had flashbacks of him when he was young with his brother playing the board game.
Just imagine what the astronaut/future Walter had gone through. He said he had been trapped in space for 15 years. This is what I think probably happened originally… Instead of getting the astronaut card, Danny got the card that said “Lose map of galaxy. Go back 2 spaces”. Eventually they probably figured to turn off the lights so they wouldn’t be seen. The Zorgons would they decide to board them. They will be cornered, but by that point, the robot would’ve been fixed. Walter uses the reprogram card and he chases the Zorgons away. Walter figured by that point that the gas making the macaroni and cheese attracted them because they probably saw them going into the kitchen. After the Zorgons and robot are gone, I don't think Danny would have time to cheat to put his red rocket ship ahead of Walter's blue ship. I believe that Walter took his turn right after the robot and Zorgons left. Because if Danny had cheated originally, Walter would have notice, placed it back to its original spot, and then get sucked out of the hole in the ceiling for being accused of cheating. With that, he wouldn't have been saved and Danny would’ve been the one alone. Anyway, without Danny cheating, Walter takes his turn and gets the shooting star card and wishes Danny was gone. Walter might even try to break open the game to get a new card, but can’t. He would be breaking things around the house and start crying because of his mistake. He would still try to unfreeze Lisa, but can’t. Over the course of being stuck in space alone, he would still talk to her frozen body so he can be sane, like Tom Hanks talking to the volleyball in Cast Away. By the point Walter runs out of food, the game probably decides to take him to a space academy since it shows that on the astronaut’s shirt and tags he wears around his neck. There, he would train to be an astronaut and learn about all the secrets of Zathura, including the origins of the Zorgons. The academy is probably in space which would explain why the astronaut said he had been eating paste out of a tube for 15 years. There, he learns about what a pilot light is, which he would later tell his younger self about it being in the basement to keep the Zorgons away. And the astronaut would also learn about worm holes. When he is fully trained, he is told about the one specific worm hole that can take him back in time and stop his younger self from making the wish, that way the game can finally end. But he’s probably told this might be his only chance because if his younger self makes the same mistake then it would just be a loop of trying to prevent it over and over again, knowing that they would be stuck in space forever.
The astronaut did say him and his brother kept getting madder at each other each time they spun. Surely, one of the cards before the star space sparked a fuse on the astronaut to the point that lead to his wish.
@@fullmetalgamer6062 I don’t think it was a card before the shooting star. I think it might’ve been the same fight Danny and Walter had. In which Walter said it’s Danny’s fault their parents got divorced. Then again, the astronaut did seem pretty shocked to hear that. So it probably was something else.
Brothers and sister fighting is normal but wishing they never was born is low. Think all their problems were because they were born. That's not true, but it's always easier to pin it on someone else instead of taking responsibility or that something's are beyond our control.
I agree, when comes to bad wishes, comes with terrible consequences. When future walter realized his mistake, he have gotten a second chance to stop from making that huge mistake that he made.
That’s the ironic and poetic justice. Future Walter spent years in Zathura because of his selfish wish. He’s regretted his wish so badly and survived in the horrors of space. But after Danny got “Rescue stranded Astronaut” his chance of redemption and getting his brother back came to reality.
Late to this party but, kids aren’t capable of that kind of critical thinking yet. It’s why emotions when you’re young can feel all-encompassing and why kids can be quite cruel with their words/actions. I can tell you as a sibling it can get that bad when you’re angry. It seems so dumb when we’re older but back then without someone to guide you, I can see myself wishing something like that in the moment
If you look at Walter when his future self explains what he wished for, Walter glances at Danny with shock and anger. Almost like he couldn't fathom doing that regardless of what happened between the two of them.
I love how much this forshadows so much that this is future Walter. Saying "I know what you are going to wish for" and younger Walter saying "How do you know?". This means that this is probably the same exact moment when the Future Walter lost his little brother. If he never intervened in this then younger walter would have wished the same exact thing. Pretty much creating a paradox.
When Walter said "It's your fault that mom and dad got divorced" to Danny, I understand what he is feeling and going through. It's neither Danny or Walter's fault, he is going through a emotional stress disorder from their parent divorce. What's good about argument is that it helps to share each other feelings.😊😊📖📖🖋🖋👬👬
I agree that divorce is not children's fault. They are just feeling guilty when it is not totally their fault. Parents divorced because of their own problems and that caused the children to fight.
Can't believe this game is a lot more cruel than Jumanji. In Jumanji, you get stranded in a jungle but at least you can survive long enough. But in Zathura, you get stuck in space with very little supplies, oxygen, and no one is around to save you in space.
It was a movie I watched in my childhood, now I'm 24 years old, of course, I was the same age as dany when the movie came out and seriously now, despite my age, watching zathura again after years gave me the same pleasure as the first day, you know what they say, firsts are always good ;)
Here's my animal style of zathura Copper-danny Scamp-walter Jenna-lisa Balto-astronaut/adult walter Charlie barkin-dad Clickers-zorgons Springtrap-robot
The last few words from that astronaut in the video are a lot more scary now as an adult than when I heard them as a kid. This dude literally wished his brother away and got stuck in the game forever.
Despite the obvious clues I never knew that the astronaut was the older Walter from a different timeline until it was revealed in the movie. Just recently I watched it again with my nieces and nephew and their minds were blown by that plot twist. lmao
2:54 It took me a long time to realize that Walter thought of doing the same thing. If it wasn't for the Astronaut, he would have passed the point of no return.
This Astronaut's story closely mimics that of Emperor Zurg (the future Buzz Lightyear) from the Lightyear movie: Even the astronaut (future Walter) reached space with the help of the game as well. He and his brothers did not respect each other as heroes. Walter was angry about why Danny was so annoying all the time and when he possibly cheated too but somehow Walter still got away with it and he continued the game and got the wishing star card and wished his brother hadn't existed but not in the way that his brother had never even been born (then the game would never have been started and Walter would have thus perhaps created a time paradox in this way which would have therefore taken him back to Earth) but in such a way that his brother would just disappear into non-existence. After that he was sorry and he couldn't continue the game and he was trapped in space and somehow he survived in space, the house probably drifted in space and Walter probably ended up in the Space Academy that was in the story of that game, almost like an alternative future imitating the future vision of the world in the 50s that young Walter wouldn't have recognized it himself, full of indescribable 50s sci-fi technology (i.e. the same as that robot was, it was a 50s sci-fi model) and after becoming 15 years older, having only eaten its food reserves (paste from a tube) at the space academy after completing astronaut training, after receiving the spacesuit, he realized that: If we can use wormholes in sci-fi movies to move through time, why not the same in real life, whether it's going forward in time or going back, so he went through the time slot, that is, the wormhole when he arrived at that point in time, 15 years ago in the past to help his younger self and Danny get rid of the Zorgons and to correct his own mistake. So, like Zurg-Buzz, the Astronaut broke time, and so what (just because of his presence) happened to young Walter never happened to the Astronaut. This moment in the movie was a new moment with never be lived. So they were able to change things. So if the Astronaut could go back in time, he could stop his younger self from wishing Danny away, from continuing their bickering, so they could continue playing the game, progressing and thus making it home. And nothing like that happened. And it worked out great. So this was a very similar event to the meeting between Buzz and his future self, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if this movie had served as an inspiration for that time travel and thus the birth of Emperor Zurg from the Lightyear movie.
@@SupportGamin2024 I either spelled it wrong or everyone got it all wrong because I meant that this movie would have inspired Zurg's birth story from movie of the Lightyear
Lisa was in a cryogenic sleep for 5 turns. Since the astronaut wished Danny was never born, they couldn't play anymore meaning the 5 turns never passed. So Lisa remained frozen.
sami zayed when the astronaut said " I played it with my own brother 15 YEARS ago" he's actually Walter 25 years older meaning( if this is set in 2005) he's from 2020
Walter: 😠“It’s your fault that mom and dad got divorced!” Astronaut: 😠 “HEY!” Danny: 😠 “U SUCK!” *Throws the board game* Astronaut: Danny! That scene hit me pretty hard
I don't think wishing the game over would have worked. Zathura obviously is a game that bets against you and will gladly screw you over first chance it gets if you're not careful
2:53 The way Walter looks at Danny after the Astronaut tells him what he wished for always makes me tear up. Danny may get on his nerves a lot, but at the same time, he can't imagine life without him.
Has anyone realized how unfair this game is? I mean there should have been a rule in the game where you're not allowed to get rid of any player of the game.
Astronaut: Don't do it. Walter: Don't do what? Astronaut: Don't wish what you're thinking. Walter: You don't know what I'm thinking. Astronaut: Yeah, well I can tell it ain't good.
“It’s you’re fault mom and dad got divorced”. Thats a pretty strong line from a 10 year old. Honestly, I don’t blame Walter for saying that. Imagine having a perfect family with two parents and a older sister. Then a younger brother comes into the picture, and things just fall apart. Danny had always caused the problems and started the fights. This causes the mother to divorce the father because she couldn’t handle him not dealing with the brothers fighting. Walter was heartbroken by this, so he took his emotions out on Danny. The divorce wasn’t always Danny’s fault, it could be some of the father’s fault. Divorce has more to stories then just children. If she really hated the brothers fighting, she would have abandon the family but she didn’t. Walter is still young to not understand anything, but him blaming Danny for everything is logical because Danny usually caused the fighting. But deep down, Danny is great kid, just young and wants to have a botherhood. Walter is a great kid too, but the divorce has effected him greatly. He didn’t know how to deal with emotions so he took it out on Danny. Playing this game and learning to survive helped Walter reconcile with Danny, and make them loving brothers. He learned the power of unity and love. Just because the parents divorced, you and Danny will always be brothers and that will never change.
This would be a better twist if instead of being Walter from an alternative future, the astronaut turned out to be their dad's brother aka their uncle. Like say him & their dad played the game when they were Walter and Danny's ages; one incident led one of the brothers to get lost in space when one finished the game & never managed to get his brother back. That would explain why their dad had that game in the first place.
I’m still wondering how the game under up there, at least in Jumanji they explained it as two brothers buried it in the 1800’s and that’s how Alan found it
In regards to how that game ended up in their home in the first place. That’s the mystery and allows the audience to fill the gaps. I personally think the game wills itself into existence. Should it sense 2 people need to change to better themselves. Like an ancient artifact from a another part of the universe, or an alternate reality,
2:54 You can tell it crossed his mind when he was looking at Danny. So, yes. If the astronaut wasn't there to convince Walter otherwise, Walter would've made the same wish as the astronaut.
I love how his brother explain why he couldn't wishes for the game to be over and the brother switch side after hearing that. Feel pretty great, brother gotta stick together.
On Walter's next turn, he receives a card that allows him to make a wish, resulting in another heated argument between the boys. The astronaut warns Walter not to make a wish out of anger. Fearing the worst, the astronaut is relieved to discover that Walter merely wished for an autographed football. He explains his origins, saying that he and his brother had played the game before. He received the wish card, but after an escalating fight, he wished his brother was never born. This resulted in him being stranded, as he was unable to finish the game without the second player. Upon hearing this, Danny and Walter finally put their differences aside.
2:53 okay love the movie but most of us here know the astronaut is the future older brother and everything up to the part where he showed up happened the same way, as it did here, so when he wished his brother wasn't born shouldn't the events been altered because he would have never found the game.
In scene if young Walter now wish his innocent little bro Danny to never been born, Walter deserve to be alone in space cause he’s a terd, then he’ll draw face of football with marker giving a name Danny, so we can see young Walter turn into full grown up
So Astronaut gets paranoid that he thought young of him wished that his little brother is never been born, cause he played the game before them. What if there was Zathura 2
Not necessary. But if they do make a Zathura 2, I wonder how it would be as it became a video game. Just like how Jumanji transformed into a video game.
That would be cool, I would’ve love to see that, but from what we saw, they would have looked the same in terms of there out bearings, they would be in the same clothes, as they are in the present time/ past, Because when we saw Dannie’s counterpart , he looked no different from the current Danny, they were in the same clothes, the only thing that stood out is that the current Danny was dirty and so was his clothes, due to everything that they have encountered through out the duration of the story, while the Dannie that belonged to the adult Walter, was clean and fresh, the only thing that made the timeline different was Walters negative choices, and being stuck in the game for 15 consecutive years of his life and becoming an astronaut. My question is how did there alternate father and sister, handle the fact that both of there sons or siblings have vanished.
"No matter how good an idea seems like when you`re angry, it never is".-Best line from this movie ever. Because it`s true.
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Same think can be applied for when you’re drunk
I once read as a child in a fable to "never cut a tree in winter". Too angry? You will harm and then regret it. Too sad? You will be pessimistic and not see things as they could be. Too happy? You will drastically overestimate the benefits of something. Too afraid? You will stay in your safe zone, despite good opportunities.
It's never good to take big decisions, specially life changing ones, while overwhelmed with emotions.
@@lxik2677 Which is why rich people are a bunch of psychopaths
I screenshotted this. Beautiful quote
"But the game wouldn't let me, cause it wasn't my turn."
I never realized as a kid just how horrifying that is. The game doesn't care if you're a person. You're just a _turn._
Jumanji is the same way. Jumanji and Zathura are dangerous magical board games.
Jumanji and Zathura are chaotic neutral forces. They don't care about people in the same way we do. Both want the players to be better people at the end of the game, but sometimes to do that they have dehumanize the players to just be turns. Zathura knew Walter needed an adult to tell him a harsh truth because he's a kid, but it also knew it had to come Walter himself. So it had to dehumanize one Walter in order to make what it needed, just like how Jumanji needed to dehumanize Alan and Sarah in order to better themselves when they meet Judy and Peter, who needed them to save their parents.
But if he had wished his brother never existed idk how the game would've begun in the first place
@@Kinobambino game still being
Played
Brother gone
After turn
And game still played
Just like Jumanji.
"There are some games... you can't play alone."
Truer words have never been spoken.
Life is one of them.
If Danny had never been born, the game wouldn't have started and yet that apparently didn't end it. This game is so cruel about resolutions of time paradoxes.
I think the game is deliberately cruel to them, as when they want to show the sister the game and they get a useless card, only to freeze her right after; when they get the Reprogram card and they cannot use it yet, or in this scene, which happens after the two brothers had a fight and immediately grants the older one a wish...
I think it is implied that the game has its own way of messing with the players to make them lose.
At0mS8 that’s actually a good theory, but you gotta admit at the final spin when Danny got a 1, but would end up getting a +9 to win the game, it probably shows the game has some sense to it, also showing some pity to the players
Explained well in Endgame
It doesn't work like that. He created a new timeline but the game itself is still going on based on the old timeline.
The game like a 50/50 it more detriment how the player play which was show with both the Walter the old one played the wrong why which to us would be the bad ending were the younger one was smart to not wise danny away which ultimately help them win which is a good ending so the game was on no one side it was telling them to work together or pay a deter punish
What I like about Danny is that he's loyal to Walter & defends him no matter how poorly he treats him. He also isn't the one starting arguments.
Isn't that letting toxic people be abusive?
@@mishalzee4659 I'm not defending Walter. I'm just saying that Danny is a good brother.
That's usually the way little siblings are. They instinctively respect and love the older sibling, and try to follow the older sibling's example. It's a bond that the older sibling can easily find annoying, because they're not used to the responsibility of having someone depend on them for guidance.
@@silversamurai0267 Danny kinda reminds me of me when I was a kid. He never had bad intentions towards Walter. Danny just wanted him not only as a brother but also as a friend. But I feel like all Walter cared about was winning and being better than his brother. Walter was the reason Danny found the game in the first place. I can also understand Danny's frustration. No one likes to lose which is why he always cheated.
Brotherhood
This is the movie every 2000’s kid has watched but can never remember the name of.
Not me..
Not me!
I always remember Zathura probably more than the first jumanji.
Yessssssssss
Don’t forget Planet 51
Danny is such a sweetheart. Walter treats him like crap and he still cares.
that’s how it is with little brothers. My twin brother always use to pick on and beat up our little brother. My little brother would always come back and look up to him.
Yeah, Danny wanted to build his brotherhood with Walter and he just wanted to play a game with him. The truth is, Walter was going through a childhood crisis from his parents’ divorce and he took it out on Danny, making him feel bad. That’s why the two of them were fighting a lot.
@@westenpedersen-giles9190 Like Wal-Twit even cared about his folks. He cares for nothing but himself. With or without the divorce excuse
@@DarkusSovereignIf that were true he wouldnt be playing catch with Danny in the ending.
@@123Mathzak Doesn’t count
It's sad when you realize that if Walter didn't have his future self with him he would probably do the same mistake.
Yun Pac I think he already knew that bruh
He said he entered a time sphincter to get there maybe he did it to make sure he could prevent some time loop?
He was giving him pressure that save danny XD.
The way he glances at Danny indicates he probably was considering it
Exactly
God the nostalgia is unreal with this movie
I kno right
I swear
I feel like people don't give this movie enough credit. It's so legit. The effects are amazing. I hope a sequel is made one day, like with the Jumanji sequels.
The wonderful memories of this movie
Artzie Haul movie was lame very fake and very childish especially how josh was so much of a big baby than danny lol.
If you disagree then you know I'm right lol
Bowens92 lmao, I watched this movie as a kid and it used to be really scary and realistic for me...
Such nostalgia!! This dvd went on hard rotation in our family home when me and my brother were little.
Artzie Haul same
Bowens92 that’s the great thing about this movie tho. Being a big brother means u gotta act grown and be grateful for what u got. This movie was basically for people to be more grateful and act more grown
“The game wouldn’t let me...cause it wasn’t my turn” the chills
Zathura is more crueler than Jumanji.
And then he was trapped in that game for 15 years alone with his regrets
Even when I was just 8 years old when this movie came out that gave me chills
The astronaut is not mean. He just didn't want Walter to make the same mistake as he did, and suffer the consequences for it.
Exactly, he wanted to stop his younger self from wishing Danny out of existence and being stuck in the game forever, and somehow, he managed to do it, obviously not as he expected
Walter didn't want childhood self to make the same mistake again about wishing Danny out of existence, although his childhood self was sedated
I wonder, is the astronaut really an alternate version of Walter from another timeline or is he just a part of the game to teach them both a valuable lesson?
@@carolinebergin4633would that mean the game knew young Walter would wish his brother not be born???
@@drrripz6621 maybe but then again it was kinda obvious by Walters high anger, it makes sense how the game predicted the worse case scenario.
As a little kid it never added up to me that the astronaut was Walter from the future. Looking back it’s so obvious now XD
SonicSU1938 Particularly during the sandwich scene, right?
SonicSU1938 his in the past not future
Same
And you have a thing to wonder. Where's Liza in his universe? Frozen in place forever?
Either that or the Zorgons killed her
2:55
The moment Walter started to change.
He realized that he almost went past the point of no return. You can see in his face as the Astronaut is telling his story that he was literally thinking of doing the exact same thing, and it shook him to his core. He realized that he needed to start being a better brother and that he and Danny needed to work together if they wanted to get home.
While that is when he truly stopped being mean to Danny, the first time in this movie that he started caring for Danny was when he told him to get in the fireplace when the meteor shower was happening so he could be safe.
I had a similar experience like this with my brother, I was the first born, and eight years later my brother came along and stole all the attention that was rightfully mine. And even though I saw him and thought of him as nothing more than just a pain, he always looked up to me and with time he grew on me and now that we’re both mature adults we truly put our petty differences in the past and we now work and depend on each other to survive or succeed.
This also applies to real life if you take the blame to everyone and eventually will regret it for the rest of your life.
Plus when the Zorgons show back up and steal the game. Danny guiltily admits that it was left in the living room, while Walter is annoyed by the turn of events he doesn't lash out like he has been.
So the astronaut is an alternate reality Walter who went through a time splinter into this dimension 15 years in the past.
It's not a different dimension though. That would insinuate that Walter wouldn't have wished Danny's disappearance away if the astronaut wasn't there. However that's not true because the Astronaut is what caused Walter to change his wish.
When the alternate Walter wished his brother were never born, he had to be stuck in the game
@@BlazeKnight_95 Yeah he's been stuck in it for 15 years, apparently became an astronaut but passing through the time sphincter allowed him to get to the past so he could correct the mistake he made.
I’m guessing after a while the game claims you as part of it if you can’t complete it, seeing how Astronaut Guy is depicted on the game board
Its like Jumanji
“TELL ME what you wished for!😠” You gotta love how he delivered that line.
Thing is Walter said he was under a lot of pressure with the yelling, but the astronaut didn't even yell until AFTER the wish.
But I think the delivery of that line could have been more aggressive. And when the astronaut thinks Danny is gone, I think it would have made more sense for him to just snap because he thinks the same mistake was made again. Therefore, he would grab Walter and yell "How could you do this?! He was your little brother?! It was your responsibility to look out for him! Now he's gone! HOW DO YOU THINK YOUR PARENTS WOULD FEEL ABOUT THIS?! HUH?! THIS IS THE WORST THING YOU HAVE EVER DONE IN YOUR LIFE AND YOU DON'T EVEN CARE!!! NOW WE'RE GONNA BE STUCK IN SPACE NOW FOREVER AND IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!!!"
And that would be when Danny comes out from under the bed.
@@ryanstauffer119 there should have been some deleted scenes for the dvd, so we could actually see what that scene actually would have looked like if it was real or not
2:52 - interesting how Walter looks at his brother after hearing what the Astronaut did. It's because the same thought crossed his mind, only that he didn't do it.
One of my favourite childhood films
How many times have you seen this movie as a kid growing up?
Yeah I can't believe that I have not seen this for so long
I Have Seen This Three Times
Mr Blue You mean you only watch it for the actors, perhaps Kristen Stewart, watching movies for actors doesn't count as watching the film lol.
It never does
This DVD went on constant rotation in our family home when me and my brother were little
I remember going to the theaters as a kid with my dad to watch this. I feel in love with it and he even got me the boardgame for it. Wish I could go back and relive
💯💯💯💯💯💯💯💯
Damn! That must've been a really good memory. What was it like to have the actual game?
when he said there are some games that you can't play alone, it was actually pretty scary lol
Scary but true. You can’t always be alone.
Foreal cause otherwise you're gonna be playing with yourself for the rest of your life.😱
It would’ve been a step further if he said that Walter can’t play the game of LIFE alone as a metaphor
yin and yang
Jesus and the Devil
@@juliangrey6227 I know I'm three years late but you should have worded that differently my boy 💀💀💀
for all those who wonder what happened to lisa in future walter’s time line :
remember that Lisa had "fallen into cryogenic sleep for 5 turns", since Walter wished that danny disappeared, he could not play anymore, so those "5 turns" never passed, and probably Lisa was frozen forever ahaha
it’s more simple than what it looks
That's what I was thinking.
@@jaredruff9823 although in this timeline Lisa woke up before the shooting star. Shouldn’t she woke up the same time like Walter from the future timeline?
Yeah, that is sad. By the way, I saw the movie enough times. Lisa was only frozen for four turns. So, unless you count Danny purposefully moving his piece forward and Walter moving it back as a turn, the card should’ve said, “Shipmate Enters Cryonic Sleep Chamber for 4 turns.”
She unfroze before the shooting star turn
and terrifying.
The scene where the astronaut was telling Danny and Walter the story of him and his brother, it also could of had flashbacks of him when he was young with his brother playing the board game.
Akshay Peddada but that would've ruined the reveal at the end
You don't know how to spell astronaut?
@@AmorphousEcru that would be kind of spoiler
Should we tell him now? It's been a year
한국어TCG of course I know how to spell Astronaut.
The little brother is so cute
Yes i agree he is cute
He is an adorable cinnamon roll
Well Look who his big sister is in this movie
Remember people, be careful what you wish for.
Thanks Genie
I trust you, future Walter!
Marcus Ruffner no you don't if you did you would be dead before you comment lol
Just imagine what the astronaut/future Walter had gone through. He said he had been trapped in space for 15 years. This is what I think probably happened originally…
Instead of getting the astronaut card, Danny got the card that said “Lose map of galaxy. Go back 2 spaces”. Eventually they probably figured to turn off the lights so they wouldn’t be seen. The Zorgons would they decide to board them. They will be cornered, but by that point, the robot would’ve been fixed. Walter uses the reprogram card and he chases the Zorgons away. Walter figured by that point that the gas making the macaroni and cheese attracted them because they probably saw them going into the kitchen. After the Zorgons and robot are gone, I don't think Danny would have time to cheat to put his red rocket ship ahead of Walter's blue ship. I believe that Walter took his turn right after the robot and Zorgons left. Because if Danny had cheated originally, Walter would have notice, placed it back to its original spot, and then get sucked out of the hole in the ceiling for being accused of cheating. With that, he wouldn't have been saved and Danny would’ve been the one alone.
Anyway, without Danny cheating, Walter takes his turn and gets the shooting star card and wishes Danny was gone. Walter might even try to break open the game to get a new card, but can’t. He would be breaking things around the house and start crying because of his mistake. He would still try to unfreeze Lisa, but can’t. Over the course of being stuck in space alone, he would still talk to her frozen body so he can be sane, like Tom Hanks talking to the volleyball in Cast Away. By the point Walter runs out of food, the game probably decides to take him to a space academy since it shows that on the astronaut’s shirt and tags he wears around his neck. There, he would train to be an astronaut and learn about all the secrets of Zathura, including the origins of the Zorgons. The academy is probably in space which would explain why the astronaut said he had been eating paste out of a tube for 15 years. There, he learns about what a pilot light is, which he would later tell his younger self about it being in the basement to keep the Zorgons away. And the astronaut would also learn about worm holes. When he is fully trained, he is told about the one specific worm hole that can take him back in time and stop his younger self from making the wish, that way the game can finally end. But he’s probably told this might be his only chance because if his younger self makes the same mistake then it would just be a loop of trying to prevent it over and over again, knowing that they would be stuck in space forever.
Interesting…..
That is very interesting and it could be accurate. You're kinda smart.
The astronaut did say him and his brother kept getting madder at each other each time they spun. Surely, one of the cards before the star space sparked a fuse on the astronaut to the point that lead to his wish.
@@fullmetalgamer6062 I don’t think it was a card before the shooting star. I think it might’ve been the same fight Danny and Walter had. In which Walter said it’s Danny’s fault their parents got divorced. Then again, the astronaut did seem pretty shocked to hear that. So it probably was something else.
This made me think that this movie deserves a prequel.
Brothers and sister fighting is normal but wishing they never was born is low. Think all their problems were because they were born. That's not true, but it's always easier to pin it on someone else instead of taking responsibility or that something's are beyond our control.
I agree, when comes to bad wishes, comes with terrible consequences. When future walter realized his mistake, he have gotten a second chance to stop from making that huge mistake that he made.
That’s the ironic and poetic justice. Future Walter spent years in Zathura because of his selfish wish. He’s regretted his wish so badly and survived in the horrors of space. But after Danny got “Rescue stranded Astronaut” his chance of redemption and getting his brother back came to reality.
Late to this party but, kids aren’t capable of that kind of critical thinking yet. It’s why emotions when you’re young can feel all-encompassing and why kids can be quite cruel with their words/actions.
I can tell you as a sibling it can get that bad when you’re angry. It seems so dumb when we’re older but back then without someone to guide you, I can see myself wishing something like that in the moment
This movie was the best!
I remember being scared too, so it felt like a kids show, but with a hint of horror and mature lessons to learn
If you look at Walter when his future self explains what he wished for, Walter glances at Danny with shock and anger. Almost like he couldn't fathom doing that regardless of what happened between the two of them.
Seemed more like a guilty look to me that he at least considered it
I love how much this forshadows so much that this is future Walter. Saying "I know what you are going to wish for" and younger Walter saying "How do you know?".
This means that this is probably the same exact moment when the Future Walter lost his little brother. If he never intervened in this then younger walter would have wished the same exact thing. Pretty much creating a paradox.
When Walter said "It's your fault that mom and dad got divorced" to Danny, I understand what he is feeling and going through. It's neither Danny or Walter's fault, he is going through a emotional stress disorder from their parent divorce. What's good about argument is that it helps to share each other feelings.😊😊📖📖🖋🖋👬👬
Yeah, but it was not a very nice thing to say. Walter was being such a brat. Especially to Danny.
@@jaredruff9823 i agree
I agree that divorce is not children's fault. They are just feeling guilty when it is not totally their fault. Parents divorced because of their own problems and that caused the children to fight.
I really like that movie it really teaches use about brotherly love and how much they need each over : best movie ever
This is such a great message for young kids to learn
“There‘re some games, you can’t play alone.”
Can't believe this game is a lot more cruel than Jumanji. In Jumanji, you get stranded in a jungle but at least you can survive long enough. But in Zathura, you get stuck in space with very little supplies, oxygen, and no one is around to save you in space.
Whatever magic fueled Jumanji upped its game when it created this board game
Not to mention Zathura tries to kill players who cheat.
This movie will forever remain goated.
The moral to this movie is, Love your siblings and be careful what you wish for.
This brings back all the memories 😢😢😢 I miss being a kid 😢
Same😭
It was a movie I watched in my childhood, now I'm 24 years old, of course, I was the same age as dany when the movie came out and seriously now, despite my age, watching zathura again after years gave me the same pleasure as the first day, you know what they say, firsts are always good ;)
Lol I like how you can see him saying "I wish for a football signed by Brett Favre"
Bring back movies like this!
Here's my animal style of zathura
Copper-danny
Scamp-walter
Jenna-lisa
Balto-astronaut/adult walter
Charlie barkin-dad
Clickers-zorgons
Springtrap-robot
I never noticed the Jak 3 poster in their room. This was a sick series of game!
It could of been an Easter egg
Also earlier in the movie Danny was playing Jak 3 before Walter turned on sports center
@@ErikCB912 Don't forget there was also Spongebob
"There're some games, you can't play alone."
That just got my heart really highhh when the astronaut said this
The last few words from that astronaut in the video are a lot more scary now as an adult than when I heard them as a kid. This dude literally wished his brother away and got stuck in the game forever.
“There are some games you can’t play alone.” and that’s every game ever existed!
Moral of the story, choices made in anger cannot be undone
The nostalgia man.....
Despite the obvious clues I never knew that the astronaut was the older Walter from a different timeline until it was revealed in the movie. Just recently I watched it again with my nieces and nephew and their minds were blown by that plot twist. lmao
2:54 It took me a long time to realize that Walter thought of doing the same thing. If it wasn't for the Astronaut, he would have passed the point of no return.
3:08 JUMANJI
I knew the astronaut was walter the whole time
Same!
Not me
And his older sister wanted to hook up with him LMAO
@@ayeskidman9269 Walter: You still think I got gorgeous eyes?
I didn't.
0:29 That's the truth because when you are angry you act without thinking straight
Yup and the kid Walter and the adult Walter are both in this movie
That is probably the best line the astronaut said through out the whole film.
& I never forgot it 😊
I would have been curious to see future Walter with future Danny.
We need Dax Shepard to return as adult Walter in the next Jumanji movie, since Jack Black says Zathura is the real Jumanji 2.
It’s a shame that they don’t have movies like this any more 🍿🎥
This Astronaut's story closely mimics that of Emperor Zurg (the future Buzz Lightyear) from the Lightyear movie:
Even the astronaut (future Walter) reached space with the help of the game as well. He and his brothers did not respect each other as heroes. Walter was angry about why Danny was so annoying all the time and when he possibly cheated too but somehow Walter still got away with it and he continued the game and got the wishing star card and wished his brother hadn't existed but not in the way that his brother had never even been born (then the game would never have been started and Walter would have thus perhaps created a time paradox in this way which would have therefore taken him back to Earth) but in such a way that his brother would just disappear into non-existence.
After that he was sorry and he couldn't continue the game and he was trapped in space and somehow he survived in space, the house probably drifted in space and Walter probably ended up in the Space Academy that was in the story of that game, almost like an alternative future imitating the future vision of the world in the 50s that young Walter wouldn't have recognized it himself, full of indescribable 50s sci-fi technology (i.e. the same as that robot was, it was a 50s sci-fi model) and after becoming 15 years older, having only eaten its food reserves (paste from a tube) at the space academy after completing astronaut training, after receiving the spacesuit, he realized that:
If we can use wormholes in sci-fi movies to move through time, why not the same in real life, whether it's going forward in time or going back, so he went through the time slot, that is, the wormhole when he arrived at that point in time, 15 years ago in the past to help his younger self and Danny get rid of the Zorgons and to correct his own mistake.
So, like Zurg-Buzz, the Astronaut broke time, and so what (just because of his presence) happened to young Walter never happened to the Astronaut. This moment in the movie was a new moment with never be lived. So they were able to change things.
So if the Astronaut could go back in time, he could stop his younger self from wishing Danny away, from continuing their bickering, so they could continue playing the game, progressing and thus making it home. And nothing like that happened.
And it worked out great. So this was a very similar event to the meeting between Buzz and his future self, and I wouldn't be at all surprised if this movie had served as an inspiration for that time travel and thus the birth of Emperor Zurg from the Lightyear movie.
This movie was made decades before lightyear came out lol
@@SupportGamin2024 I either spelled it wrong or everyone got it all wrong because I meant that this movie would have inspired Zurg's birth story from movie of the Lightyear
I’ve always wondered what happened to Lisa in Future Walter’s timeline, as he only wished Danny out of existence and yet he arrives alone
Lisa was in a cryogenic sleep for 5 turns. Since the astronaut wished Danny was never born, they couldn't play anymore meaning the 5 turns never passed. So Lisa remained frozen.
@@fullmetalgamer6062 Ohh that makes sense now I forgot Lisa couldn’t just easily be thawed out til the game continued to go on. Damn poor Walter
I missed my childhood from early 2000s very much.
the astronaut's guy told Walter and Danny about his past from 1990 to 2005
sami zayed when the astronaut said " I played it with my own brother 15 YEARS ago" he's actually Walter 25 years older meaning( if this is set in 2005) he's from 2020
@@burneyboys02 in fact, one year later
3:08 “there are some games you can’t play alone.”
And this is one of them.
Well the astronaut was talking to his brother that he wished him back was Danny. Because the astronaut is Walter from the future.
You know the astronaut is the kid but older and the sister was hitting on him 😂 (Alabama intensifies)
The movie is so underrated
Walter: 😠“It’s your fault that mom and dad got divorced!”
Astronaut: 😠 “HEY!”
Danny: 😠 “U SUCK!” *Throws the board game*
Astronaut: Danny!
That scene hit me pretty hard
I don't think wishing the game over would have worked. Zathura obviously is a game that bets against you and will gladly screw you over first chance it gets if you're not careful
So true. I was kinda thinking the same thing.
2:53 The way Walter looks at Danny after the Astronaut tells him what he wished for always makes me tear up. Danny may get on his nerves a lot, but at the same time, he can't imagine life without him.
Has anyone realized how unfair this game is? I mean there should have been a rule in the game where you're not allowed to get rid of any player of the game.
Isn't it a bit odd if you add a rule like that to a game?
Not to mention this is a game that should have been life points
I alwys wonder to is there gonna be zathure space adventure 2!!
I hope they make another since they’ve been making more Jumanji movies
Supposedly, was Walter actually thinking about wishing for Danny to have never been born?
Yes, but the astronaut stopped him wishing that
@Sheldon Cooper Don’t buy lottery tickets! Invest the money!
Wow "It wasn't my turn." It really be feeling like that sometimes, can't play alone
Some astrophysicist, please help me understand if that's the real scale size of a true shooting star.
Hin Taos "shooting stars" can vary in size, one a while back was the size of about a basketball.
Isaac Asimov has a video about it
Astronaut: Don't do it.
Walter: Don't do what?
Astronaut: Don't wish what you're thinking.
Walter: You don't know what I'm thinking.
Astronaut: Yeah, well I can tell it ain't good.
Aaah! the good ol' memories!
Look at walters face when the astronaut tells his story
So if the Astronaut is Walter and wished his brother never existed how did he get back home to become an Astronaut the movie never explained that???
Wormholes bruv
“It’s you’re fault mom and dad got divorced”. Thats a pretty strong line from a 10 year old. Honestly, I don’t blame Walter for saying that. Imagine having a perfect family with two parents and a older sister. Then a younger brother comes into the picture, and things just fall apart. Danny had always caused the problems and started the fights. This causes the mother to divorce the father because she couldn’t handle him not dealing with the brothers fighting. Walter was heartbroken by this, so he took his emotions out on Danny. The divorce wasn’t always Danny’s fault, it could be some of the father’s fault. Divorce has more to stories then just children. If she really hated the brothers fighting, she would have abandon the family but she didn’t. Walter is still young to not understand anything, but him blaming Danny for everything is logical because Danny usually caused the fighting. But deep down, Danny is great kid, just young and wants to have a botherhood. Walter is a great kid too, but the divorce has effected him greatly. He didn’t know how to deal with emotions so he took it out on Danny. Playing this game and learning to survive helped Walter reconcile with Danny, and make them loving brothers. He learned the power of unity and love. Just because the parents divorced, you and Danny will always be brothers and that will never change.
This movie is a good movie for therapy for family problems.📽📽🎬🎬👨👩👦👦👨👩👦👦👬👬🖋🖋📖📖
The kid inside of me still wishes for super powers every now and then.
I still couldn’t believe the sister wanted to...
Kids in 1995 grew up watching Jumanji but 2005 kids grew up watching Zathura
I hope you all have good eye I just saw a Jak 3 poster 1:48
Bruh
AgnosticPlashDamage45 Danny played it earlier
This would be a better twist if instead of being Walter from an alternative future, the astronaut turned out to be their dad's brother aka their uncle.
Like say him & their dad played the game when they were Walter and Danny's ages; one incident led one of the brothers to get lost in space when one finished the game & never managed to get his brother back.
That would explain why their dad had that game in the first place.
No, because (as Future Walter says) the game requires two players to complete.
A better twist would have been if Danny was the Astronaut.
I’m still wondering how the game under up there, at least in Jumanji they explained it as two brothers buried it in the 1800’s and that’s how Alan found it
In regards to how that game ended up in their home in the first place. That’s the mystery and allows the audience to fill the gaps.
I personally think the game wills itself into existence. Should it sense 2 people need to change to better themselves.
Like an ancient artifact from a another part of the universe, or an alternate reality,
This is basically early 2000s version of 1995 Jumanji
Was Walter actually going to make the wish that the astronaut made?
2:54 You can tell it crossed his mind when he was looking at Danny. So, yes. If the astronaut wasn't there to convince Walter otherwise, Walter would've made the same wish as the astronaut.
I love how his brother explain why he couldn't wishes for the game to be over and the brother switch side after hearing that.
Feel pretty great, brother gotta stick together.
On Walter's next turn, he receives a card that allows him to make a wish, resulting in another heated argument between the boys. The astronaut warns Walter not to make a wish out of anger.
Fearing the worst, the astronaut is relieved to discover that Walter merely wished for an autographed football. He explains his origins, saying that he and his brother had played the game before. He received the wish card, but after an escalating fight, he wished his brother was never born. This resulted in him being stranded, as he was unable to finish the game without the second player. Upon hearing this, Danny and Walter finally put their differences aside.
2:53 okay love the movie but most of us here know the astronaut is the future older brother and everything up to the part where he showed up happened the same way, as it did here, so when he wished his brother wasn't born shouldn't the events been altered because he would have never found the game.
In scene if young Walter now wish his innocent little bro Danny to never been born, Walter deserve to be alone in space cause he’s a terd, then he’ll draw face of football with marker giving a name Danny, so we can see young Walter turn into full grown up
Walter is also a young boy. It’s not really his fault.
So Astronaut gets paranoid that he thought young of him wished that his little brother is never been born, cause he played the game before them. What if there was Zathura 2
Not necessary. But if they do make a Zathura 2, I wonder how it would be as it became a video game. Just like how Jumanji transformed into a video game.
I FINALLY FOUND THE MOVIE AGAIN
It's one of those films where you don't really remember it, but you do. It's the only film I've ever thought about this way.
You don't have to wish the game over to escape this mess if you wished your brother never existed
Imagine going to the alternative universe
That would be cool, I would’ve love to see that, but from what we saw, they would have looked the same in terms of there out bearings, they would be in the same clothes, as they are in the present time/ past, Because when we saw Dannie’s counterpart , he looked no different from the current Danny, they were in the same clothes, the only thing that stood out is that the current Danny was dirty and so was his clothes, due to everything that they have encountered through out the duration of the story, while the Dannie that belonged to the adult Walter, was clean and fresh, the only thing that made the timeline different was Walters negative choices, and being stuck in the game for 15 consecutive years of his life and becoming an astronaut. My question is how did there alternate father and sister, handle the fact that both of there sons or siblings have vanished.
If someone is being mean to you sometimes you should walk away 😢
.The best scene
brooooooo i just realized theres a jak 3 poster. thats wild, great series
Bruh jak 3 poster is the only thing i remebered untill now 😂😂😂
So emotional 😭