Spoiler Warning!
Overall, not a bad film and one of the only ones where I'm willing to enjoy the parts without considering the sum. The Oasis is super well designed and executed in this film and its designers were cast perfectly. The remaining cast is competent as well, but a large chunk of the overarching plot is kinda lackluster which took away from my enjoyment of the majority of the characters when they aren't in The Oasis. Within the game however, I didn't find a single part bland, but only because I'm willing to look past how unbelievable it is that nobody has found this confirmed Easter egg in five years. Actual gamers would've easily been able to acquire all the keys within a week, tops. While the plot isn't great, the effects are. Everything looks amazing and even the sound effects and animations for anything nostalgic are very respectful to their source materials and you can call me Kendrick, because this movie gave me a nostalgia boner as big as the Eiffel Tower. There were so many nods and references and they weren't at all shoved down your throat like I was expecting them to be. They're more like the finite details of a painting that leave you coming back a few more times to see if you missed anything. The part with The Shining was perfect and possibly one of my favorite scenes overall. Oh, another negative was the terrible love story written in. It is very cringe and probably my least favorite thing. Mostly, I appreciate the amount of love that clearly went into crafting everything inside The Oasis. I don't think this'll be taking the crown from Wreck-It-Ralph as my favorite video game related movie, but it definitely left an impact on me. That is all.
Overall, not a bad film and one of the only ones where I'm willing to enjoy the parts without considering the sum. The Oasis is super well designed and executed in this film and its designers were cast perfectly. The remaining cast is competent as well, but a large chunk of the overarching plot is kinda lackluster which took away from my enjoyment of the majority of the characters when they aren't in The Oasis. Within the game however, I didn't find a single part bland, but only because I'm willing to look past how unbelievable it is that nobody has found this confirmed Easter egg in five years. Actual gamers would've easily been able to acquire all the keys within a week, tops. While the plot isn't great, the effects are. Everything looks amazing and even the sound effects and animations for anything nostalgic are very respectful to their source materials and you can call me Kendrick, because this movie gave me a nostalgia boner as big as the Eiffel Tower. There were so many nods and references and they weren't at all shoved down your throat like I was expecting them to be. They're more like the finite details of a painting that leave you coming back a few more times to see if you missed anything. The part with The Shining was perfect and possibly one of my favorite scenes overall. Oh, another negative was the terrible love story written in. It is very cringe and probably my least favorite thing. Mostly, I appreciate the amount of love that clearly went into crafting everything inside The Oasis. I don't think this'll be taking the crown from Wreck-It-Ralph as my favorite video game related movie, but it definitely left an impact on me. That is all.
