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Zathura: A Space Adventure (2005) More at IMDbPro »

• Continuity: When Walter is watching SportsCenter, he changes positions between the one close-up of his head and then the medium shot of him on the chair.
  
  
• Factual errors: In an early scene, Danny asks his father to play "Smash Brothers". This is an obvious reference to a series of Nintendo games titled "Super Smash Bros." that is only available on the Gamecube and Nintendo 64. Danny is holding Sony Playstation 2 controllers.
  
  
• Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): When Danny opens the Zathura game box he asks clearly "What's Zathura?" But after a few scenes, it turns out he cannot read.
  
  

• Continuity: When the father goes into Lisa's room to wake her up, she is seen sleeping with a bunch of white colored pillows. A shot later, there is a purple pillow next to her. A few more shots later, the pillow is gone.
  
  
• Continuity: From the point where Danny is behind the wall listening to Walter complain to his father about the fact that he works too much to the point where Danny knocks over the fruit punch that spills over his father's picture, his hair is sometimes parted and sometimes not.
  
  
• Continuity: When the zorgons first appear, they shoot out the windows in the kitchen. But later, when the astronaut is telling the kids to shut off all the lights, the windows are intact.
  
  
• Continuity: When the boys first see that they are in outer space, as the camera shows the house floating by Saturn, there is obviously no damage to the outside of the house by the recent asteroid hits, though the damage inside the house shows asteroids coming through walls and ceiling.
  
  
• Continuity: Josh Hutcherson's (Walter) hair changes style frequently throughout the movie, even though the film is set in one day.
  
  
• Factual errors: When the house passes too close to Tsouris-3 and enters its gravity field, objects in the house and attached to the house begin to fall toward Tsouris-3 and away from the house, but all objects, including the house itself, would be subject to the same gravitational force and would fall toward Tsouris-3 together, as demonstrated by Galileo at the Leaning Tower of Pisa.
  
  
• Continuity: The circular saw that the defective robot grabs from the hatch in its back is shown in most shots to be held closely between the robots two fingers - except when the saw is being used to cut the fireplace; here the saw is shown to have a large hub between the blade and the holding fingers.
  
  
• Incorrectly regarded as goofs: When astronaut sets fire to the sofa and kicks it out of the door into space, the couch shouldn't burn because there is no oxygen. Given that the characters can go outside and breathe without any harm, such a detail can to be excused.
  
  
• Revealing mistakes: When the boys get a card that says "Shipmate will enter cryonic sleep for 5 turns," it actually takes 8 turns.
  
  

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