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Once upon a time Adam Sandler was a comedic titan, releasing smash comedy hit after smash comedy hit. However of recent memory the untouchable comedic legend has fallen on very hard and demeaning times with almost every recent Adam Sandler film released being a frankly stupid mess of an entertainment piece, we’re all looking at you Grown Ups 2. So going into Pixels, even with its interesting premise that did more than intrigue my gamer heart, I was expecting another stupid movie full of wasted potential that put some of our most beloved licenses to very poor use. Thankfully though this movie is a pleasant surprise. The story for Pixels is a fun and inventive twist on the run of the mill alien invasion plots seen before. In 1982 NASA sent up a message to the stars, communicating to any intelligent life out there the culture and ways of earth. In this message was footage of the video games of the time, Pac-Man and so on. However when an alien race receive these images of video game ...

Now that the original Human Torch has upgraded to the rank of Captain, and with Marvel Studios endeavouring to regain all their lost and sold off characters rights, it was inevitable that Fox Studios would conjure up a reboot to keep the snapping hounds of Marvel from the Baxter Building doors. The plot for this Fantastic 4 movie is definitely an origin story as we get to fully see the disastrous event, brought on by a young Reed Richards’ recruitment into a scientific program that is trying to build a pathway to another dimension, which enables our 4 protagonists to get their monstrous and spectacular abilities. Being an origin story it is obvious that the films events aren’t going to be full action packed chaos from the get go as the powers that enable for such chaos haven’t been acquired yet; however this doesn’t warrant the sloppy and disconnected pacing the film has. Unlike its origin telling predecessor this film takes an absorbingly long time to actually get to its fant...