Funny / Zathura

• The discussion between Lisa and her father about the use of the phrase "hooking up."
• After Walter changes the channel from SpongeBob SquarePants to Sports Center:
  Danny: Can't we watch SpongeBob?
  Walter: No.
  Danny: You used to like it.
  Walter: Times change.
  Danny: (dejectedly) Tartar sauce.
• What's Danny's idea of taking evasive action? Running around in circles as meteors bombard his living room.
  Danny: Take erasive action! TAKE ERASIVE ACTION!!
  • When the meteors start to hit, one smashes a dust-filled vase resting on the fireplace. What was in the vase?
  Danny: Grandma!
• After discovering the game has transported their home into outer space, we cut to the brothers standing before their napping sister, trying to debate who should wake Lisa, or if it's even worth the trouble.
  Danny: You wake her.
  Walter: No, you wake her. She won't be as mad.
  Danny: We shouldn't even be here.
  Walter: Dude, we're in outer space. It doesn't even matter anymore.
• "What's the rule about being in my room?" "Not unless it's an emergency."
• The scene where Danny and Walter try to show Lisa the dangers of the game they found. From Lisa's viewpoint, the whole thing is a overly long moment of her brothers awkwardly trying to show her how a simple board game works, making a big fuss when the card pops up, Danny covering his eyes as he whimpers "Here comes the scary part", only to end in an anti-climatic "You've been promoted to a Starship Captain. Move ahead two spaces."
  • "Fascinating..." The only thing that's missing is Kristen Stewart dryly giving the Vulcan salute.
• Danny's turn comes, and he gets a card that says: "Flunk Space Academy, go back one space".
  Danny: I'm not even going to comment on that.
  • Just that fact that while he's calm, Danny obviously still feels indignant over it.
• All together now:
  Walter: Get me a juice box, biatch!
• Don't forget to always "Rest on standing astroturf!"
• After the stranded Astronaut arrives, a shot from the Zorgons' ship punches through the house behind him, and he just gives it a look before showing how much he knows by referring to a bombardment like a case of termites:
  "Looks like you've got a Zorgon problem."
• Once the house is hidden by extinguishing all sources of light and heat, the brothers find the Astronaut pouring lighter fluid all over a couch, which Danny protests since it's their dad's "nap couch". He levels a flat look at them to show how little he cares, and then casually tosses a lit match on it to ignite the furniture.
• This is followed by the Astronaut raiding their fridge for cold pizza and sandwiches, washed down with Diet Coke. As he explains to Walter:
  Astronaut: I had to squeeze through a time-sphincter to get here.
  Walter: What's a "time-sphincter"?
  Astronaut: A wormhole. (Holds index finger and thumb in a ring the size of a peephole) About yea-big. You try squeezing through one of those and not being hungry enough to eat a carpet shark.
• Walter trying to use the "Fleet Admiral" card to make the astronaut obey him.
  Walter: I'm Fleet Admiral, and I'm telling you to hit the road.
  (Beat)
  Astronaut: (Clears throat) ...I apologize, sir. I didn't realize you were Fleet Admiral...In fact, I...
  (Astronaut pulls out identical card)
  Astronaut: I'm a FLEET ADMIRAL TOO! (Flicks the card at Walter) It's just a card, bug nuts!
• A really good line comes after Walter makes his first wish.
  Danny: Why'd you wish for a football? You could've wished us out of here!
  Walter: I was under a lot of pressure! (points at the Astronaut) He was yelling at me!
• What happens after Lisa has told her dad a million times not to worry?
  Lisa: YOU GUYS ACTUALLY SET THE HOUSE ON FIRE?!?!
  • The fact that it's Kristen Stewart saying this line is what makes it hilarious.
• These lines.
  Lisa: What's a Zorgon?
  Danny: They're lizard-men - they eat meat! We're meat!
  • It's better the first time, when the Astronaut first tells this to Danny, and Danny doesn't catch on until the Astronaut explains that kids (like Danny himself) are composed of, you guessed it, meat.
  Astronaut: The worst part is their ravenous appetite. They never stop eating...
  Walter: What do they eat?
  Astronaut: Meat.
  Danny: That's good.
  Astronaut: (Gives Danny an "Are you kidding me" look) Dude. You're meat.
• The reaction of the little repair device inside the robot when Walter holds up the "Reprogram" card. It peers at it through the little viewport window on the robot's chest for a moment, then suddenly rushes out of sight, like a factory worker realizing he just made a huge mistake and is trying to fix it before the boss finds out.
• The brothers are confused by the Reveal Shot at first. After a Beat:
  Danny: You wished for two of me?
• Lisa discovering that the Astronaut (who she had a crush on) was a grown up version of Walter. Her reaction is better.
  Lisa: Oh, my God! And I wanted to—
• A rather understated moment: After the Reset Button occurs and Walter and Danny find themselves back in the living room, with the latter mere moments from starting the game, what is Walter's reaction?
  Walter: (calmly) Don't push that button.
• Last lines of the film. Needless to say, Lisa isn't pleased at the Call-Back.
  Walter: Still think I have gorgeous eyes?
• The cherry on top: There's a running gag of the bicycle orbiting the house throughout the adventure and surviving all sorts of perils. The last shot of the movie is a pan-out that shows the house in one piece, as though it never went to Zathura in the first place. ...and then the bike literally falls from the sky, reminding the audience where this house has been.