Pixels is a ghastly film. Sitting through it was a thoroughly unpleasant experience.
It's a comedy but there's not a single laugh to be had in it, with action scenes that are boring and irritating.
What makes how bad this film sucks hurt all the more is it's actually based on a cool idea. The core concept involves aliens getting a human time capsule in 1982 that included videogame footage of Pac-Man, Galaga, Donkey Kong and so on.
The aliens consider the footage a threat and spend around 30 years designing weapons made of light based on the classic videogames and attacking Earth with them, turning people and structures into pixels.
This promising idea has been wasted with a script that is diabolically bad and pretty much the worst actors possible bringing it to life.
Adam Sandler is a modern wonder; I simply don't understand how so many people enjoy his terrible movies. He has a disgusting on-screen presence and whenever he turns up, it's as if someone has sidled up beside me at my work desk to make annoying sounds in my ear, just to tick me off.
Kevin James stars alongside Sandler and is, as always, like a vacuum; an on-screen void of nothingness that sucks up anything interesting going on and disposes of it. Peter Dinklage is brilliant in Game of Thrones, he is rubbish in Pixels.
The female characters are objectified in juvenile ways and the videogame characters are instantly forgettable.
I give Pixels one measly star, ranking it alongside Fantastic Four, Mortdecai and Fifty Shades of Grey as one of 2015's worst films.
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Pixels:: Director: Chris Columbus:: Starring: Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Josh Gad, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage:: Rating: PG - Violence, coarse language & sexual references:: Running Time: 105 minutes:: Release Date: September 24, 2015
