- Astronaut: Are you telling me to leave?
- Walter: Well, once you're finished eating... yeah.
- Astronaut: Well, he spun me...
- Astronaut: [points at Danny]
- Astronaut: ...so he has to decide.
- Walter: [pulls out card] Well I'm Fleet Admiral, and I'm telling you to hit the road.
- Astronaut: Oh... I'm sorry... I didn't know. Oh, you know what...
- Astronaut: [pulls out a card]
- Astronaut: I'm Fleet Admiral too! It's just a card, bugnuts!
- Walter: What are you doing?
- Danny: Making mac-and-cheese.
- Walter: There's no water, dummy, we're in outer space.
- [Danny turns the water on]
- Walter: Why're you doing that?
- Danny: Beacuse I'm hungry and I know you're not goiong to take care of me.
- Walter: Don't bother; the gas won't work.
- Danny: [turns the stove on] Any more advice?
- Danny: Why'd you wish for a football? You could've wished us out of here!
- Walter: I was under a lot of pressure! He was yelling at me!
- [meaning the Astronaut]
- Danny: [turns around] Why were you yelling?
- Astronaut: [sits on the bed] OK guys. Here's the thing: I've played this game before. OK? I played it with my own brother 15 years ago.
- Walter: You're a player?
- Astronaut: Yeah. Just like you guys. We were fighting a lot back then. And when the game started, it got even worse. Every time we spun, we got madder and madder at one another. And then I landed on the Star Space, the same one that Walter just landed on. I was *so* mad at him that when the star passed... I made my wish.
- Walter: What'd you wish for?
- Astronaut: I wished that my brother had never been born.
- Danny: Oh my god.
- [Walter looks at Danny, then at the Astronaut]
- Astronaut: As soon as I did, it felt horrible. I thought, you know if I could spin again maybe I, I could land on another Star Space and wish him back but, the game wouldn't let me. So it wasn't my turn. Walter, there are some games you can't play alone.
- Walter: [reads game instructions] "Zathura: Attention space-adventurers, Zathura awaits. Do you have what it takes to navigate the galaxy? It's not for the faint of heart, for once you embark upon your journey there's no turning back until Zathura's reached. Pieces reset at the end of each game. Play again and again for different adventures."
- Danny: [Running around in circles as meteors bombard the living room] Take erasive action! Take erasive action!
- Robot: [hands rises up and opens as the camera pans up] Alien life form, must destroy.
- Danny: Walter, I think he's talking about you.
- Robot: [opens the launcher and activates it, followed by his feet] Flame.
- [the robot draws forward to the boys]
- Danny, Walter: [screaming] Bla-aaaaa-aaaah!
- [the boys dodges the robot's target, as he gets stuck at the fireplace]
- Robot: [after serveral seconds, his head turns to the boys] Alien life form, must destroy.
- Walter: Danny, take your turn.
- Danny: [gets to the board when he realizes a missing one] There's no key.
- Walter: Find it.
- [With proper tension, Walter finds the key before the robot attacks him]
- Walter: [gives key to Danny] Take it, take it. Come on hurry.
- [the robot uses the saw to break out the bricks, then starts to chase Walter]
- Walter: Gasp!
- [the Chase between Walter and the robot destroyed parts of the entryway and the kitchen]
- Walter: [to Danny; running] Take your turn!
- [the Chase concludes when the robot destroys the family's table in the office room and uses the jetpack to destroy the window]
- Walter: Why didn't you go? I could have killed.
- Danny: I was scared. But it's okay, he's gone, isn't he?
- [the robot comes back into the house by destroying the window and slips into the office room]
- [after Walter wishes on a shooting star, a second identical Danny appears]
- Danny: You wished for TWO of me?
- Walter: No! I - I wished the astronaut guy had his brother back...
- [stunned, The Astronaut approaches the second Danny and smiles, embracing him]
- Astronaut: Danny!
- Alternate Danny: Who are you?
- Astronaut: It's me. It's Walter, I'm... I'm your brother.
- Walter: What?
- Danny: What?
- Alternate Danny: No, you're not.
- [points to Walter]
- Alternate Danny: He is.
- Astronaut: Yes... I'm older, but... I'm him. I came back for you.
- [the Astronaut, revealed to be an older Walter from an alternate reality, approaches Walter after Alternate Danny has disappeared]
- Astronaut: Thank you.
- Walter: [stunned] I didn't...
- Astronaut: You did a good job. You did better than I did.
- Walter: Thanks.
- Astronaut: Now, make sure he gets home safe, okay?
- Walter: Okay.
- [smiling, The Astronaut touches Walter's shoulder and begins to disintegrate]
- [first lines]
- Dad: [playing catch] Oh, man. That's it. Nice grab. Oh, yeah.
- Dad: All right, Danny, your turn.
- Walter: What? l didn't get my full turn!
- Dad: Yeah you did. I counted. That was 25. That's what we said.
- Walter: That's not fair!
- Dad: lt's exactly fair. Come on, Danny. Time for your turn, then l gotta work for an hour.
- Danny: [getting into place] You know, you're not the only one who gets a turn.
- Walter: [miming] "The only one who gets a turn."
- [Walter plays the Zathura and the rocket ships are faulty]
- Walter: Hang on a second, something's wrong.
- [turns to Danny]
- Walter: I was ahead of you.
- Danny: Somebody must have kicked the board.
- Walter: No. Nobody kicked the board. You cheated!
- Danny: No, I didn't!
- Walter: You cheated! I knew you were gonna cheat!
- Astronaut: Whoa, whoa, whoa, hold on! Okay, cheater's a strong word!
- Danny: I didn't cheat! I said I didn't cheat! I didn't cheat!
- Walter: You cheated!
- Astronaut: Guys, guys, guys! Please! Bring it down, indoor voices.
- [turns to Danny]
- Astronaut: Now, did you move the piece?
- Danny: Maybe, I moved the piece by an accident.
- Astronaut: Okay. It was an accident.
- Walter: How can you move a piece by accident, it's stuck to the game? That's impossible! You cheated, you cheated!
- Astronaut: Okay. No, no, no, no! Let's not used that word! No, stop saying cheat!
- Danny: I didn't cheated! I didn't cheat! I DIDN'T CHEAT!
- Walter: You cheated! CHEATER!
- Astronaut: Hey, hey, hey! Come on! Okay?
- [turns back to Danny]
- Astronaut: Now, where did you move from?
- Danny: I was right here.
- Walter: No, you weren't! You were back there!
- Danny: Nuh-uh.
- Astronaut: Look. Okay. Okay. Here, careful.
- [Walter pushes the red rocket back four times]
- Walter: God.
- Astronaut: Okay, it's fixed. Okay.
- Walter: You're such a baby.
- Danny: I'm not a baby!
- Astronaut: Hey, slow down! Slow down!
- Walter: Yes, you are a baby! You're a baby!
- Danny: I'm not a baby!
- Astronaut: No! Nobody is a baby here!
- Walter: A hundred percent, you're a baby!
- Danny: I'm not a baby!
- Walter: You're a little baby!
- Danny: I'M NOT A BABY!
- Astronaut: Oh, geez, it won't stop!
- [covers Danny's mouth]
- Astronaut: Okay, let's play the game.
- Walter: Fine.