Storyline
Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.
Directors
Cast
Steve Wiebe, Annika Pergament, Adam Sandler, Nick Swardson, Allen Covert, Sadie Sandler, Matt Frewer, Michelle Monaghan, Affion Crockett, Denis Akiyama, Brian Cox, Josh Gad, Dan Patrick, Jackie Sandler, Tim Herlihy, Jane Krakowski, Sean Bean, Jonathan Loughran, Martha Stewart, James Preston Rogers, Kevin James, Matthew Lintz, Dan Aykroyd, Tom McCarthy, Peter Dinklage, Billy West, Lainie Kazan, Robert Smigel, Tucker Smallwood, Rose Rollins, Rob Archer, Jared Sandler, Ashley Benson, Sunny Sandler, Bill Lake, Serena Williams, Chris Titone, Mark Whelan, Hannah Covert, Eric Trask, Anthony Ippolito, William S. Taylor, Jack Fulton, Bridget Graham, Jocelyn Hudon, Abigail Covert, Sienna James, Shea James, Toru Iwatani, Jared Riley, Andrew Bambridge, Jacob Shinder, Margaret Killingbeck, Ron Mustafaa, Meher Pavri, Lamont James, Bola Olubowale, Mark Sparks, Sara Haines, Derwin Philips, Michael Boisvert, Colleen Reynolds, Jimi Shlag, Emily Jenkins, Sistah Lois, Andrew McMichael, Gary Douglas, Susie McLean, Daryl Hall, John Oates, Holly Beavon, Dave Reachill, Joshua Holmes
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Reviews
50
Sporting a flowing mullet and aviator shades, Dinklage perks things up considerably as the story’s comically arrogant bad-boy-turned-good-guy.
50
Chicago Sun-Times
Pixels has a few inspired action sequences and a handful of laugh-out-loud moments, but overall the special effects are surprisingly average — and the lazy acting by Adam Sandler, the shameless mugging by Kevin James and the hammy performance by Brian Cox don’t help. Not even Peter Dinklage in a mullet can save the day.
40
At isolated moments a tolerably amusing send-up of alien invasion disaster movies in which the attackers are video arcade-era renegades arrived to gobble up as many famous landmarks as possible, this one-note comedy runs out of gas within an hour (it is based on a short film) and should have been trimmed to a neat 90 minutes.
40
The truly mystifying thing about the movie is how desperately it caters to Gen-X junk nostalgia without bothering to think that maybe those Reagan-era kids have grown up a bit.
38
The 3D adds little, and the hallmarks of the Chris Columbus directing style are unevenness and luck. With a little of the latter, this could be a huge hit. But with a better star, sharper script and more Dinklage, it could have been a champ.
