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When aliens mistake images of s arcade games as a sign of aggression, they attack Earth with evil versions of video-game characters in this wild action comedy. In response, the U. Close Ad. New This Month.

Adam Sandler Sam Brenner. Kevin James President 'Chewie' Cooper. Matt Lintz Matty Van Patten. Brian Cox Admiral Porter. Denis Akiyama Professor Iwatani. Dan Aykroyd Championship MC.

Pixel the movie cast

Combining animated video game characters and visual effects , the film follows an alien race misinterpreting video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, in which they respond by invading Earth using technology inspired by the same games. To counter the invasion, the United States assembles a team of former arcade champions to lead the planet's defense. Development on the film began in with Chris Columbus signing on to direct in Licensing for arcade game characters that appear in the film were obtained the following year. Filming began in Toronto on May 28, , and was completed in three months. In post-production, visual effect techniques employed the use of voxels , a three-dimensional cube in 3D computer graphics , to replicate the low-resolution pixels of older arcade games on screen. At a video game arcade in , Will Cooper watches his friend Sam Brenner seemingly lose a championship game of Donkey Kong to an obnoxious and arrogant opponent, Eddie "The Fireblaster" Plant. Videocassette footage of the event is included in a time capsule launched into space. In the present day, Sam is an electronics installer while Will is the President of the United States. Meanwhile in Guam , Andersen Air Force Base is besieged by an extraterrestrial force attacking in the form of Galaga and a soldier is abducted. Sam works at the home of divorced U. Army lieutenant colonel Violet van Patten, and the two are separately summoned to the White House by Will.

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Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight s-era video game characters who've attacked New York. View More. There are plenty of movies related to the video games. The 80s movie 'Tron' was one of those first I have seen, followed by many. Lego and 'Toy Story' are the toys, not the video games, but very close to this theme and I'm very happy that Hollywood made this film for the guys like me who grew up playing them.

Adam Sandler Sam Brenner. Kevin James President 'Chewie' Cooper. Matt Lintz Matty Van Patten. Brian Cox Admiral Porter. Denis Akiyama Professor Iwatani. Dan Aykroyd Championship MC.

Pixel the movie cast

The central premise behind the new Adam Sandler comedy "Pixels" is so undeniably promising on its most basic level that as I walked into the screening, I felt a genuine anticipation that I cannot easily recall ever feeling in conjunction with one of his films, at least of those cranked out by his Happy Madison production company. Unfortunately, a good premise can only take a film so far if it has been accompanied by abysmal execution. Oh, "Pixels" does have a couple of laughs scattered here and there, and the film as a whole is certainly better than such recent Sandler disasters as "That's My Boy," "Blended" and the truly inexplicable "The Cobbler," but when one considers how good this material might have been if placed in the right hands, to see it squandered this way makes it almost more painful to view than the typical Sandler stinker. The conceit here is that back in , NASA launched into orbit a capsule that contained numerous examples of our then-contemporary popular culture as a way of reaching out to possible alien life forms that might be curious to know about that thing that we on Earth called "The Pirate Movie," including a cassette chronicling a video game championship featuring young arcade masters showing their skills at the top games of the era. Unfortunately, a hostile alien force intercepts the tape, determines its contents to be an act of war, and begins sending down large and malevolent versions of the characters from those games to attack Earth as a response to the alleged challenge with the fate of the planet hanging in the balance. The spaceships from "Galaga" rain pixilated horror in Peru, a "Centipede" games breaks out over London's Hyde Park and the grid-like layout of New York City sets the scene for what proves to be the world's largest Pac-Man game. Drastic times call for drastic measures and so the President Kevin James hits upon the idea of bringing in old school gamers to advise on how to stop the invading forces. Luckily, his childhood best friend, Sam Brenner Sandler , was a young gaming prodigy back in the day until his life was ruined after losing that aforementioned championship when he placed second at Donkey Kong. He is joined by Ludlow Josh Gad , another participant in that competition who has become a paranoid conspiracy buff he is convinced JFK fired first, chuckle chuckle with an unhealthy obsession towards Lady Lisa, the scantily-clad heroine of "Dojo Girl. Finally, in a small concession that women also play games as well, the guys are joined by Lt.

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When aliens mistake images of s arcade games as a sign of aggression, they attack Earth with evil versions of video-game characters in this wild action comedy. In response, the U.

Space Invaders. I was surprised by how much I enjoyed it; it's filled with charm and quirky characters and stereotypes and the effects really are spectacular. Goofs In the opening scenes, set in , characters discuss their favorite celebrities. Pixels PG 1h 45m. Steve Koren White House Reporter 3. Don Lee Visual Effects Supervisor. Gary Douglas. The trio are put on the starting level with the Donkey Kong and the aliens' captives at the top level. Natasha Peschlow Assistant Art Director. Serena Williams Serena Willams. Jonathan Epstein. Archived from the original on October 1, Jonathan Green who was a structural engineer before being casted into his role. Hughes Winborne. Violet Van Patten.