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Saw it today after a long wait for it on DVD, and I have to say, it's probably one of the most enjoyable "kids" movies I've seen since The Incredibles.
The two main characters, two brothers, are played by nice interesting and non-grating children. I actually cared for the kids. Me.
Tim Robbins plays Tim Robbins for about five minutes and then he's off to work because he designs racecars. Woo. He wakes up the bitchy older sister who bitches about watching the brothers, who are fighting over who's better at whatever. Bitchy older sister goes back to sleep because she has a date and needs beauty sleep.
Then the youngest brother finds the boardgame and plays it and hurls the house into space. From there, the two brothers play the game, fighting a reprogrammed robot, avoiding a sun, getting hit by missiles from lizard-men, and rescuing a stranded astronaut, played by a scene-stealing Dax Shepard. He is easily the best part of the movie, and...
SPOILERS
The astronaut is actually the older brother from the future. Cool.
END SPOILERS
Anyway, the movie has some great special effects, including animatronics. The lizards kind of look like "Tokka" from TMNT: Secret of the Ooze:
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