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I meant to see this in theaters but never made it so I took a chance and ordered the Blu Ray. Good call. I really enjoyed this movie. It had video game pop culture references but unlike some other animated movies, it was more than that. It wasn’t just, “Look! Here’s Q-Bert! You remember him right?!” It actually had a story that was interesting to watch. I thought it was a lot of fun with great visuals.
Also, if you have the Blu ray, make sure to pause the movie at a least once. You’ll get a pretty cool surprise.
Oh and here’s the Sugar Rush song so you have that stuck in your head all day.
I just watched this yesterday, streamed via Amazon. They finally found a role to suit Sarah Silverman’s voice! She still sounded annoying, sure, but she was supposed to. The Jane Lynch role was disturbing - the character was hot, but sounded like Jane Lynch. Fun little film, though.
Yep, fun flick. Not even the depth of Toy Story, but well worth the watch, especially if you remember and played games from that era. My kids loved it even though their video game history begins two decades later.
ETA: I did have to explain what happened to the Disney logo at the very end, though.
They share a house with a group of naive squirrel girls who escaped from an expy of Aperture Science and a perverted penguin guy. Oh, and there’s a bunch of tiny stick-figure-like beings in the basement.
Yea, I think that’s what they usually go for in these movies: something kids will find fun but has enough humour and adult references so that parents won’t be bored out of their skulls (see also: Shrek).
I brought a bunch of my toddler cousins to see it in theatres and thought it succeeded at that. I don’t think I would recommend it to adults alone, but if your going with kids, they’ll have fun and there’s enough material aimed at adults that you won’t be bored or annoyed.
There might be one left, half-forgotten in the back of a strip mall somewhere.
Edit: They vanished long, LONG before video rental stores went away. In fact, the rental places were partly responsible for driving them out of business, though it was mostly that time and technology changed - your home box was way better than the arcade systems. If you wanted to play a game without laying out the cash to buy one, you could go to Blockbuster or whatever and rent.
I still see them in places like tourist towns, where vacationers can drop their kids off in one during rainy days. But yea, they’ve gone from having one in every Mall in the US to just a few per state.
There’s a small arcade in most of the multiplexes I’ve been to. I liked the movie, although I thought the main character would enter more video games than he did. I liked some of the pop cultural references in Sugar Rush, like the diet cola springs and the Mentos stalactites.
It was good, though I was kinda disappointed that the entire second half of the plot deals with Sugar Rush, instead of continuing to jump around and see different games.
A lot more deserving of an Oscar than Brave, at least.
I heard an interview with Jane Lynch where she talked about doing the movie, and said that when she saw the movie with her wife she said to her “Look how hot I look” and her wife said “That’s not you honey, that’s a cartoon.”
I actually think Jane Lynch is pretty attractive, she’s just “of a certain age” and her best known character is terrifying.
I saw it and liked it a lot. Good story, excellent voice cast, and eye-popping visuals. I brought along two of my sons, ages 13 and 9, and they liked it too.
This was my only complaint as well, other than that I thought it was fun and well worth the rental.
I especially liked the distinct style given to the main games he entered. The most obvious were the shapes of things. In Fix-it Felix, everything was squares, in the bug/FPS game it was all triangles, and in Sugar Rush the design was based on Gaudi’s architecture, all curves. Lots of fun little details.
There is a way to turn this “feature” off, if you are like me and actually want to freeze-frame the film (for example, to see the cast list in the closing credits).
In fact, the mall near Travis Air Force Base in northern California just rebuilt its arcade (originally it was in a fairly hidden part of the mall, but they tore that section down to build the new food court).
Speaking of arcades, it turns out there is at least one actual Fix-It Felix Jr. arcade game (you can win it in a contest), in addition to the versions that are online and (apparently) at the iTunes App store.
Also, if you watch the special features, notice the picture quality of the commercial for the Fix-It Felix Jr. game at the arcade. I’m glad to see I wasn’t the only person in the world whose TV did that.
