Seriously, every scene in this movie is a disappointment, like for instance, the main character's best friend, Cooper who was uncoordinated and sucked at every arcade game he played turned out to be the President of the United States, oh and he's illiterate, all hail President Paul Blart, I mean come on, how can he be a President when his demeanor throughout the movie were far from a presidential candidate quality.
Second of all, the female lead, Violet played by Michelle Monaghan went froma shallow, bitchy character to a loving, devoted, cute-esque girl for the main character to steal and live happily ever after just by simply watching Brenner, the main guy destroying some Centipede, it's like in every single Adam Sandler's movies can we see this flip-of-switch character change in a female lead, it's abysmal, reality doesn't work like that, asshole!
Oh and why can't all the governments in this movie evacuate the civilians when aliens are about to attack? They ended up cheering and asking for a picture and throwing a party after every battle they endured, I mean an alien army is about to take over the world, shouldn't you, the civilian be fucking afraid and run away? Heck, even President Paul Blart in crisis time can squeezed quality time with his wife to bake a cake, oh what the hell, I mean it's a fun movie right? You're like putting cartoon rules into a live action movie, I want to stop complaining about this movie but the horrendous story keeps on coming.
The final battle befuddled me the most, the alien starship threw out every single arcade game character to the world without any pattern right? Then why can't the army or the military pick up the light cannon and fight? Where are all the light cannon tanks or light cannon jets? I mean, the final battle was like earth's last hope to fight the aliens and yet not one single military man can be found protecting the nation? The final battle battle with Donkey Kong, typical Adam Sandler when everything is at lost, no success can be found but a long speech from a kid will definitely turn you into a superhero and when did Violet became Natasha Romanoff? You were battling Donkey Kong with his unpredictable barrels coming at you and you stop to have a chat with some kid?! That's mighty brilliant stuff from the writers of this movie.
And the creme of the crops, the final nightmare to this god awful movie, the happy endings, we can't have an Adam Sandler movie without having the main loser character fall deeply in love with the bitchy turned good girl character now would we...and not just that, Josh Gad's character, Ludlow finally got what he wanted all this time, to marry a hot Ashley Benson. So, Ludlow was obsessed with Lady Lisa and when the final battle occurs Lady Lisa appeared and try to kill Ludlow at first, but then Ludlow threw away his weapon and lay his hands and surrender to Lady Lisa's sword but did she do? She fell in love with Ludlow and decided to turn her back and attack her fellow aliens beside Ludlow, my jaw literally dropped at that point, my head was like blown away because of the stupidity of this movie, what kind of alien in the middle of an invasion can turn its back on its own race and fall in love with the one thing they swore to annihilate? And much like any other Alien Invasion movie, you kill the head, the rest will falter, such an alien cliche.
To be honest, this movie could've been great if it wasn't for Adam Sandler and is posse. I mean Josh Gad was the showstopper for me, his rant on the Navy Seals was hilarious and his girlish scream was funny and I love Peter Dinklage but his character in this movie kinda suck. I guess if it were Will Ferrell or Kevin Hart playing the main character and bring their brand of comedy, I think this movie could've been a big success. I think and I believe you agree with me that Adam Sandler's time is up, he's not funny anymore or some would argue that he not funny to begin with.
Pixels, a great plot but poor writing, abysmal jokes, horrendous character changes, I would give them a 4 out of 10 points.