Review: Disappointing 'Pixels' falls apart before it begins
The most believable element in "Pixels" is that alien video-game creatures could attack our planet.
The core concept is clever — space aliens misunderstand a recording of old video-games as a declaration of war, and send digital monsters based on those games to Earth as their army.
Forget the elite military and special services — Will calls up Sam, the one-time video game championship runner up, hoping he might spot some arcade-inspired pattern in the airborne attack.
When she rejects him but ends up driving behind him on the street, he declares to no one: "She went from zero to psycho in 3.4 seconds."
Because women are crazy, get it?!
The president frees him, because as the 1982 video-game world champ, the Fire Blaster needs to help protect the world from the alien invasion.
The few bright spots in "Pixels" come from the music, celebrity cameos and special effects.
Pixels," a Columbia Pictures release, is rated PG-13 by the Motion Picture Association of America for "some language and suggestive comments.