Review of Pixels (2015) by Jason D — 23 Jan 2016

The movie in general is meant as mediocre fluff. There's plot holes galore and cheesy character development. I don't think people realize that the flick was going for 80s in terms of the general movie style, not just with the video games.

And I think the accusations of it being offensive in various ways are overblown. It's mostly innocent. But Sandler tanks this movie. His thrown in asides are horribly unfunny. And he does them so often, and so lamely, and with such mean spirit, as they are mostly insults.

The other actors are actually decent. Any one of them could have saved his role. Replace Sandler with anyone but David Spade and Norm McDonald, and have a typical President character, and this movie is your average stupid popcorn action-comedy with some plot holes.

Alas...