"Yeah. We didn't have that growing up."
The central concept of Pixels is great fun, but the actual movie is less so, largely because of a huge mis-match between tone and audience. The good news is that it is an Adam Sandler movie that is actually reasonably watchable, Peter Dinklage and especially Brian Cox seem fully aware of the comic potential, and Michelle Monaghan shows some nice delivery. The film is squarely aimed at the kiddie market and as a consequence is very limply written indeed, and herein lies the biggest problem, as this is surely not the main (older) audience who will get the big nostalgia kick out of the conceit of 80s videogames being let loose for real by mistaken aliens. The actual 'battle' sequences are absolutely knockout, and the great pity is that there is clearly a terrifically cool 'straight' action movie in here crying out to be unleashed as a potentially very cool Summer blockbuster, but instead Pixels has a flat and basic script with stretches of weak comedy that underwhelms overall.
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