Video games attack the world

Devon Huff, Staff Writer

If you have ever played a video game, you know how fun they can be. So why not make a movie of them? That is exactly what the movie Pixels is. The movie was just released on DVD and stars Adam Sandler as Sam Brenner and Kevin James as Will Cooper (or the president).
The movie starts off with Sam and Will going to their local arcade. After playing games for a little while, they find out that Sam is really good at these games. Will says he is way better than he is and is like a pro. He asks how he is so good and Sam replies, “There is a pattern.” Using these patterns, he can predict what will happen and find ways to counteract moves so he can get a higher score. After a few events in the movie (avoiding spoilers), Sam is working at an average game store and Will is the president. The president was told that something like aliens were attacking the world. Sam (who is still friends with Will) ends up checking out what is on Will’s computer and finds out that these aliens remind him of video games, more specifically the arcade games he used to play when he was a kid and not the recent games coming out. After another attack Will finds out that Sam was telling the truth and that the aliens have declared war on Earth. The method they use to attack is by playing video games. Whoever wins three times is the “winner” and gets to claim the other’s planet. With nowhere else to turn, Will lets Sam take the wheel. Sam, along with a few other of his older friends, team up to play the game.
The movie was produced by Adam Sandler, Chris Columbus, Allen Covert, Mark Radcliffe and Michael Barnathan. The movie’s ratings scored 5.7/10 on IMDb, 17% on Rotten Tomatoes and 27% on Metacritic. The cost to make the movie was $88 million dollars, and the total amount of worldwide sales is $243.6 million dollars. Even though the movie got a poor rating, I actually think it is worth watching. It represents a lot of older games that adults may recognized when they were younger and definitely gives the watcher nostalgia.