I guess you could say that his life has been in standstill. Adam Sandler, on the other hand, works in a neon orange outfit as a computer tech nerd, still mentally recalling the heartache at coming in second during a big arcade game competition in ’82. Life hasn’t turned out exactly as Sam (Adam Sandler) and his friend Will (Kevin James) had expected it to! Well, some dreams were realized, even if the popularity polls don’t exactly dig you: His friend became the President of the United States–he’s still a nerd. However, the film is damn entertaining: It doesn’t take itself too seriously but offers up a plethora of chuckles. We’re not talking serious Cinematic Art here.
Of course, the film also reminds us that we still can do AMAZING things, that there is always time to fall in love, sing with a cool rock band or blast evil aliens-even change the world for the better! Unfortunately, as time passes and we age, we must often curtail or scale down some of our deepest dreams of Greatness. It has more to do with what every generation inevitably discovers: We all have dreams and ambition. We’re not talking about high intellectual ideas. I graduated from High School in 1982 and many of the thoughts that I had both back then and in the present are cleverly utilized as dialogue in this wonderful, bright and witty film. I also believe this film should and will make a hefty sum at the box office, as long as kids of all ages don’t take it too seriously. The makers of the movie are obviously hoping for many youthful viewers ‘accompanied by their parental units, of course. Actually, I hoped that most of the film would take place during this time, an era when many of us were coming of age, but…how silly of me! It’s 2015, and as much as I find recent times to be banal and abrasive, this is the age that modern kids live in. Starting with a kid zooming through his neighborhood on bike while Cheap Trick blazes on the soundtrack, I was immediately hooked: The year is 1982. Directed by Chris Columbus, PIXELS will definitely take many of us back to an era that once seemed new and exciting, but now appears as old as the Civil War.