Jumanji movie is the movie which was created in 1995. Since it was made in the early years before Zathura was made, the setting and the atmosphere scenes of the movie were created with simple effects like “an old” movie. Most of the scenes were set in the wild jungle which mean stampedes, monsoon, poisonous flower and hungry foliage. This makes the movie a bit more logical in setting aspects than Zathura. Also, the content of the story in Jumanji was tighter than the one in Zathura movie. The plot of this movie can make us like riding roller coaster. Most scenes make us feel shocked and even scary. However, in the story, the effect of Jumanji game cannot bother much to their players. It is just capable to make the player “wait in the jungle” until there is another player that can roll a five or an eight to reveal the previous player. Furthermore, the touching part of Jumanji in the family theme is also different with Zathura. In Jumanji, the family theme is about bad relationship between the son, Alan, and his father. Alan, in the story, at that time was so callousness to his father and before he could apologize to him, Alan released to find out that his father was died.
In the other hand, Zathura was created in 2005. It seems that it is the newest version of his old sibling, Jumanji. The setting of this movie, of course, is more sophisticated than Jumanji had ever done in its scenes. Most of the scenes of this movie took place in space. It looks more luxurious with the existence of black hole, space background, and lizard robot-monsters called Zorgons. However, it is a bit more illogical story comparing to Jumanji. Besides, the story content of Zathura is not as extreme as Jumanji. While watching Jumanji was like riding roller coaster, watching Zathura was like riding on a dodgem bumper-car. It can give us more time to relax than Jumanji because it was jerking, stalling and only occasionally speeding up. In addition, Zathura also makes different sense of touching part from Jumanji in the family theme. Zathura created common brother relationship in a unique style. It is demonstrated by contrasting metaphor of the Astronaut, who provided the image of a grim future of a Walter, the older brother, without a Danny, his little brother, to help him finished the game.
Well, even though Jumanji and Zathura are similar like two siblings with one father, they still can be differentiated based on the movie setting, story content, and the touching part in each scenes. I cannot judge which one of the movie is better than another. However, I personally think that Zathura is a bit more attractive with shiny looking since it was created in the newer era than Jumanji.
Written by: Aida Shine From Several Sources
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