Long before the new Super Mario Bros. movie, video game characters like Donkey Kong and Pac-Man were roaming the cinema in the real world. This refers to the 2015 sci-fi comedy Pixels starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James.
The film of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone director Chris Columbus got back then extremely negative reviews and was nominated for six Golden Raspberries.
Sci-fi blockbuster Pixels was not well received at the time
Have in the story of the film Alien signals received from 80’s video games. They understood the pixel massacre as a declaration of war, after which they attacked the earth in the form of the most well-known video game characters. The US President (Kevin James) turns to his old friend Sam (Adam Sandler) to stop the invasion.
Pixels comes to one on the Rotten Tomatoes review platform Average of just 18 percent. While the film wasn’t a financial flop, it was generally pretty poorly received. For example, he received six nominations at the annual anti-Oscar awards, the Golden Raspberry.
Here Pixels was nominated in 2016 in the categories of Worst Picture, Worst Leading Actor, Worst Supporting Actor twice, Worst Supporting Actress and Worst Screenplay. He wasn’t “excellent” in any of them.
When is Pixels on TV?
The sci-fi blockbuster runs on VOX on Thursday evening at 8:15 p.m.
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