Director : Chris Columbus
Running Time : 106 mins
In 1982, Sam Brenner (Sandler) was convinced by his best friend Will Cooper (James) to take part in the first ever Worldwide Video Arcade Championships due to his excellent gaming skills. Years later, aliens declare war on the planet based on the video of the championships that were sent into space and Brenner, along with now president Cooper, has to rise to the alien challenge or the planet will be destroyed.
This sounded like a fun concept, but with Sandler and his cohorts in the lead roles I didn’t expect too much in the way of intelligent humour from this. And I wasn’t disappointed. Too much of the material is wasted on Sandler’s once slapstick but now dry sense of humour, with Peter Dinklage and Josh Gad almost completely wasted, with most of their jokes being repetitive and unimaginative. And hardcore arcade gamers will be disappointed by the vast amount of inaccuracies concerning the release dates of the games used in the movie. Don’t get me wrong, this was entertaining enough, it’s just that a different cast might have done it better.
You’ll like this if you liked : Evolution
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