Pixels

This comedy is directed by Chris Columbus and starring by Adam Samdler, Kevin James, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage and Michelle Monaghan.

The plot starts when a kid with excellent arcade skills tries to prove he is the best doing something and that his life is made to do something important. When this kid finds out there will be a national arcade tournament he immediately enrolls himself. He made it to the finals, but he lost because the other guy cheated, which he found out when they were adults and aliens invaded earth, because they sent the competition video to the space seeking to communicate with other beings.  

He grew up and became a mechanic that installs hardware everywhere, and his best friend that supported him all the time became the president of the US. One day when he was about to install a software for a kid, he met a beautiful woman that worked for the president’s intel military, when suddenly they received an alert of attack in one of their air bases. The enemies that witnesses described used special weapons leaving pixels instead of a fallen wall.

Concerned by the unknown forces that attacked them, they go home. In that moment when he is driving the van, somebody hidden in the back scares him and suddenly breaks, ejecting the gay of the back. He was Ludlow an old friend that had always thought the government had all kind of conspiracies. This time he is right about an alien attack, and got a communicate giving the coordinates of the next attack.

Violet, the woman he met recently, gathered intel to create light canons capable of destroying the new enemies. Everything was fine until they realized they needed one more player, the ‘flamethrower’, that was in jail for different reasons. As in the tournament, in one of their fights against Pac Man, he used a high speed code and the aliens said they had lost their planet because of that.

In the last fight they had to beat Donkey Kong in the mother spaceship, the game Sam could never have achieved to win, until this important day when the world was in his hands.

In my opinion, this movie gives a message to kids and adults. This one says that you can be good at something and accomplish your dreams when you grow up, but you don’t have to quit. To the adults, this movie shows that it is never too late to try to accomplish your dreams, even if you thought everything was lost. With your family and friends alongside you there is nothing you can’t do.

                                                                      By Juan