This causes the aliens' forces, including Lisa, to be eliminated. As the group dodges barrels and fireballs, Brenner is losing hope until Matty reveals Eddie's cheating to him, restoring his self-confidence and allowing him to defeat Donkey Kong. Brenner, Violet, and Cooper are summoned to the aliens' mothership where they face their leader, who takes the form of Donkey Kong, on the starting level with the aliens' captives at the top level. Ludlow persuades Lisa to choose love and side with the humans as Eddie, wishing to make amends, returns to fight. An alien takes the form of "Lady Lisa", a character on whom Ludlow had a crush since childhood. Cooper joins the team, while Ludlow stays to fight. using an army of characters and enemies from the games. The aliens launch a massive attack in Washington, D.C. Eddie flees while Matty is abducted by the aliens. Violet's son Matty discovers Eddie used a speed cheat during the battle against Pac-Man. During a celebratory party, however, the aliens declare the challenge for the planet has been forfeited because someone cheated. Brenner, Ludlow, and Eddie overcome the task using modified Mini Cooper cars, but Violet notices Eddie moved at supersonic speeds around the board. Toru Iwatani, the creator of Pac-Man, tries to reason with Pac-Man peacefully but gets his hand bitten off. In New York City, the team must participate as the ghosts against Pac-Man. Ludlow and Cooper retrieve Eddie from a prison sentence for fraud. The aliens send congratulations and a " trophy" in the form of the Duck Hunt dog. Brenner and Ludlow step in and shoot them down. In London, the aliens attack Hyde Park in the form of Centipede. Violet develops rayguns that are effective against the aliens. Brenner and Cooper are unable to stop one of the attacks as the Taj Mahal is destroyed 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 Earth to a battle where if the aliens win three rounds, they will conquer the planet. Upon seeing the video footage and meeting with Ludlow "the Wonder Kid" Lamonsoff, Brenner determines the aliens have misinterpreted the videocassette images as a declaration of war, and are attacking with technology based on the video games featured at the championship. Army Lieutenant Colonel Violet van Patten, and the two are separately summoned to the White House. 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 installer of home-theater systems while Cooper is the hated President of the United States. Videocassette footage of the event is included in a time capsule launched into space. He seemingly loses a championship game of Donkey Kong to obnoxious Eddie "the Fireblaster" Plant. Pixels received generally negative reviews from critics and grossed over $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 discovers he can master the games by spotting patterns. Produced by Columbus's 1492 Pictures and Sandler's Happy Madison Productions, Pixels was released theatrically by Columbia Pictures (via Sony Pictures Releasing) in the United States on July 24, 2015, in 2D, 3D, and IMAX 3D formats. 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 the 1980s games such as Pac-Man, Space Invaders, Arkanoid, Galaga, Centipede and Donkey Kong. The film co-stars Kevin James, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage, Michelle Monaghan, Brian Cox, Ashley Benson, Sean Bean, and Jane Krakowski. The screenplay was written by Tim Herlihy and Timothy Dowling from a screen story by Herlihy. The film is based on the 2010 short film of the same name by Patrick Jean. Pixels is a 2015 science fiction action comedy film directed by Chris Columbus, who also produced with Allen Covert, Mark Radcliffe and Adam Sandler, who starred in the lead role as well as serving as co-producer and conceived its production.
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