Zathura Trailer

This one's a little outside the scope of what we usually talk about here, but it just looks too cool to ignore ...

One thing about being a parent is it has made me keenly aware of just how horribly bad most "children's entertainment" is. Seriously ... it's like the studios figure if they just make a bunch of colors move around while making friendly sounds they can sell it to a bunch of kids that don't know any better. This is why my child is being weaned on Miyazaki and Pixar films with just about everything else being kept far, far away.

Now, before seeing the trailer I knew only two things about Zathura. It's directed by Jon Favreau - who is turning out to be one mighty fine director - and is based on a book from the author of Jumanji with which this shares some very common elements. Except it looks much better. I think I'll be bringing the boy to this one. Check it out here.