There, the team must fight an alien taking the form of a giant Pac-Man, playing as the ghosts. Ludlow and Cooper retrieve Eddie from a prison sentence for fraud before going to New York City. The aliens send congratulations and a " trophy" in the form of the Duck Hunt dog to an old lady. The soldiers begin to lose, so Brenner and Ludlow step in and shoot them down. The team later heads to London, where the aliens attack Hyde Park in the form of Centipede. Violet develops directed energy weapons that are effective against the aliens.
Brenner and Cooper are unable to stop one of the attacks as the Taj Mahal is damaged by the aliens in the form of Arkanoid and a bystander is abducted.īrenner and Ludlow train Navy SEALs to play the games. The aliens interrupt a television broadcast using footage from the cassette, challenging the people of Earth to a battle where if the aliens win three times, they will conquer the planet. Upon seeing the video footage and meeting with Ludlow "The Wonder Kid" Lamonsoff, Brenner deduces that the aliens have somehow mistaken the videocassette images for a declaration of war, and are attacking Earth with a strange technology that allows them to morph into the video games featured at the championship. Army lieutenant colonel Violet van Patten, and the two are separately summoned to the White House by Cooper. In Guam, the Andersen Air Force Base is besieged by an extraterrestrial force attacking in the form of Galaga and a soldier is abducted.īrenner works at the home of divorced U.S. In the present day, Brenner is an electronics installer while Cooper is the unpopular President of the United States. Videocassette footage of the event is included in a time capsule launched into space. It received generally negative reviews, with critics considering it similar to other video game films, especially Wreck-It Ralph (2012), Hitman: Agent 47 (2015) and Need for Speed (2014) and grossed $244 million worldwide against a production budget of between $88 million and $129 million.Īt a video game arcade in 1982 with his friend Will Cooper, 13-year-old Sam Brenner seemingly loses a championship game of Donkey Kong to obnoxious Eddie "The Fireblaster" Plant. Ltd., Pixels was released theatrically in the United States on July 24, 2015, in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D formats, by Sony Pictures Releasing through its Columbia Pictures label. Produced by Columbus' 1492 Pictures and Sandler's Happy Madison Productions in association with LStar Capital and China Film Co. Principal photography on the film began on May 28, 2014, in Toronto filming was completed in three months. To counter the invasion, the United States hires former arcade champions to lead the planet's defense. Combining computer-animated video game characters and visual effects, the film follows an alien race misinterpreting video feeds of classic arcade games as a declaration of war, resulting in them invading Earth using technology inspired by 1980s games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Arkanoid, Galaga, Centipede, Donkey Kong, and Q*bert. Based on the 2010 short film of the same name by Patrick Jean, the film stars Adam Sandler, Kevin James, Michelle Monaghan, Peter Dinklage, Josh Gad, and Brian Cox. Pixels is a 2015 science fiction comedy film directed by Chris Columbus, written by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling, and produced by Columbus, Adam Sandler, Allen Covert, and Mark Radcliffe.
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