Your favorite review of Pixels?

JimKiler

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This would be mine:

Deadspin critic Will Leitch

"This would seem to be either a) a clever idea for a short film, but not enough to sustain a feature film, or b) in the hands of an adventurous director and cast, perhaps a way to mine our cultural obsession with nostalgia, and how it might connect with our conflicted relationship with technology. But a terrible idea--an immediate way to disembowel the whole concept, in fact--is to hand it over to the Happy Madison crew and just let them [mess] around with it. Adam Sandler and his crew are the only people who could put less thought and effort into a 100-minute feature film than the original filmmaker put into a two-and-a-half-minute short."

Or

New York Post critic Kyle Smith:

"Hiding Adam Sandler's participation on the poster of the film is understandable, but the studio should have taken the logical next step and made the entire film disappear"

MSN has culminated their favorites here
 

Kaido

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That's too bad, the movie trailer looked pretty fun. Pacman, my son! AHHHH my hand! :awe:
 

TwiceOver

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nothing will beat the mashup someone put on youtube of Jack and Jill plus a 70's movie (called Hardcore) where a dad has to watch an adult movie to see if his daughter was in it after she disappears.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKSAvNOIaNo

as funny as it was jack n jill is so bad i couldn't even sit through that

Lol. I tried. I made it about a minute and a half where he starts saying
"Turn it off"
and I was like "Sounds like a good idea".
 

poofyhairguy

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What is sad is that Adam Sandler plus Classic Video Game References should equal retrostalgiagasm. But there was no hope it could be good from the first preview!

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Thank god for Wreck It Ralph, the movie that is actually a retrostalgiagasm.
 

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Kaido

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I was bored & I watched it. I thought it was fun for a single-watch popcorn flick.

"I'm on an all-protein diet."

"...also carbs".

:D
 

LikeLinus

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I was bored & I watched it. I thought it was fun for a single-watch popcorn flick.

"I'm on an all-protein diet."

"...also carbs".

:D

This. I didn't really have any expectations for the movie or read reviews before hand. We watched with the kids and it's not as horrible as some make it out to be. It won't win any oscars, but it's got some funny moments and its worth watch for fun.
 

Kaido

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This. I didn't really have any expectations for the movie or read reviews before hand. We watched with the kids and it's not as horrible as some make it out to be. It won't win any oscars, but it's got some funny moments and its worth watch for fun.

Yup. 17% ratings on RT, thought it would be the next Plan 9 or BF Earth. I think it would have even been rewatchable had they tightened it up a bit & added more soundtrack. There were a lot of scenes with like zero music or soundtrack in the background, which was kind of weird. But the graphics were excellent, and it had plenty of funny moments.
 

JimKiler

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I was bored & I watched it. I thought it was fun for a single-watch popcorn flick.

"I'm on an all-protein diet."

"...also carbs".

:D

This. I didn't really have any expectations for the movie or read reviews before hand. We watched with the kids and it's not as horrible as some make it out to be. It won't win any oscars, but it's got some funny moments and its worth watch for fun.

I agree, it was not a good movie but not as bad as the reviews lead me to believe. I loved the bad reviews but Peter Dinklage and the Actor who played Laslow were funny. I did make the mistake of watching it with my daughters and now my first grader says it is her favorite movie.
 

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I gave it a 6/10. It was entertaining, nothing great, but then again its an adam sandler movie and isn't supposed to have great acting or a great story line. I've watched it twice, once with my son and once with my wife.