Blog From The Bench

Here's where Zathura lost me. If you're a kid, and your house gets mysteriously teleported into outer space, so that you open your front door and look out and instead of lawn and trees and houses and cars, you see a gigantic starfield populated by planets and zooming meteors and nebulas and crap, and did I mention YOUR HOUSE IS FLOATING IN SPACE? What do you do? Do you:

a. Run screaming back inside and hide shivering in a closet until NASA sends up a shuttle to rescue you?

b. WALK CASUALLY OUT ONTO THE FREAKING PORCH ALL "WHOOOOOAAAA!"

The answer for 95.6% of children under the age of 12 who are actual people and not ridiculous screenwriter constructs is "a."