Pixels (2015)

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	Year of first release: 2015
	Director: Chris Columbus (Home Alone, Mrs. Doubtfire)
	Actors:  Adam Sandler (Mr Deeds), Kevin James (Paul Blart: Mall Cop), Michelle Monaghan (Source Code, Gone Baby Gone)
	Country: USA
	Genre: Comedy, SF
	Conditions of visioning: 17.04.2016, in-flight entertainment 10" screen.
Synopsis: When Aliens attack our planet following patterns from 80's video games, a champion of the time Brenner (Sandler) is called to the rescue but his best friend Cooper now USA president (James).
Review: The story was inspired by a french short movie that became very popular on the web in 2010 (visible under this link if your country allows you to watch it). Well if one could adapt Battleship why not making Pixels ?! The story has an Ivan Reitman feel to it (Ghostbusters, Evolution) but the humour is very Adam Sandler, so you'd better avoid that movie if you don't like this. I am not a big fan but always remember some good laughs from Mr Deeds so I decided to give it a shot (a decision also made easier when you are stuck in a plane for twelve hours). When put to images, the story is very cartoonesque and nothing is believable (the president, the military, the enemy, the attacks...) but that's a universe you have to accept. The movie revolves around the attacks, separated by scenes in which the various characters work out their relationships with one another, and some other ones calling to our nostalgia for those old games (like the apparition of the creator of Pacman to the rescue to defeat his offspring). All of this is pretty easy to watch (not boring as I had read it) but will not leave much of a trace in the history of cinema.
Rating: 4 /10