Why the Pixels Movie Failed so Miserably

There’s something about gaming that manages to bring together generations of people at a time. Exploiting this very premise, Hollywood has time and again tried to slacken on the idea of storytelling and has turned to older or pre-existing premises to come up with ideas. Arcade games and portable gaming consoles characters haven’t been spared either, as the latest Adam Sandler movie Pixels proves. This is a movie that depends on the 90’s beloved characters of Pac Man, Centipede and Donkey Kong.

Pixels as a movie fails on all fronts, barring the special effects. The story itself is so juvenile, that it doesn’t make sense at all. Aliens who are angry at Earthlings send 90’s video game characters to fight the humans and it is up to Adam Sandler and his team to fight back and save the Earth. The final sequence involves going to the alien mothership and fighting the toughest video game villain of them all - Donkey Kong himself. According to the latest smartphone news, even attempts to forward a related smartphone game to pique interest in the film have fallen flat.

The lack of acting and the inanity of the script would still have been forgiven had there been a shred of sense to the story to begin with. Why this move was even made is questionable because not every two minute video has potential to become a full-fledged Hollywood movie. If there is one thing worse than going back to school, it’s having to endure the Pixels movie, which was released as a refreshment for people dreading goin­g back to school.

Adam Sandler is undoubtedly a talented actor but if his recent spate of films is anything to go by, it is just going from bad to worse. Despite his sloppy humour which is targeted at juvenile joke loving people, Sandler’s fans are becoming increasingly frustrated and disheartened with his films. There was a time when Sandler and his faithful band of actors, such as Rob Schneider and Kevin James, could manage to somehow pull off any disaster but this time, by ruining childhood video game characters, they may have pulled it a bit too far. Even the lovable Peter Dinklage of Game of Thrones fame couldn’t save this movie.

Characters from games, specifically video games and portable gaming consoles have been the focus of many different platforms of entertainment according to the latest smartphone news sources. Hollywood has a knack of taking some of them and making them more memorable, while at other times, it ruins the very memory of those characters. The 90’s are coming back this year, as Terminator and Jurassic Park too were titles released earlier this year, neither of which lived up to the name and fame of the 90’s classics that they meant to reprise. Hollywood is on a nostalgia trip and many more different movies or brands or characters may be treated to reprising roles. Let’s just hope that no character from portable gaming consoles is treated to the humiliation of big screen adaptation, like what Pixels did to Pac Man and Donkey Kong.

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