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Critics destroy "Pixels" & Adam Sandler in reviews
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We're not sure what happened with this movie. It had an original premise and the short it is based on is wonderfully clever. So between getting the green light and debuting in theaters, something horrible happened because critics and fans hated this movie with the passion of a billion nerds. And if you ask anyone what went wrong with Pixels, 99% of the time you'll get one answer: "Adam Sandler."
Pixels, which also stars Kevin James, Josh Gad, Peter Dinklage (what's he doing in this movie?) and Michelle Monaghan, is currently sitting not-so-pretty with an 18% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The film is ranking higher than some of Sandler's other offerings, like Grown Ups 2 (7%) and Jack and Jill (3%), but it's rated lower than You Don't Mess With the Zohan (38%).
The reviews from critics are hilariously brutal, and it seems everyone has had enough of Sandler's lazy movie-making crap because no one held anything back:
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"Take the basic premise from Galaxy Quest but swap out Star Trek with retro video games, throw in some nifty special effects and what could possibly go wrong? Three words: Adam F#%&ing Sandler….In scene after scene, Sandler's bozo loser schtick brings Pixels to a screeching halt…Sandler is hogging the screen with his humiliatingly unfunny self-confidence conflict and love interest arc. The silence, where there was supposed to be laughter, made the screening I attended uncomfortable."—Mashable
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"Pixels in an unmitigated piece of godawful dog s--t. It's existence feels ultimately like poison or a general infection. It is cinematic strychnine, celluloid chlamydia. Pixels isn't a movie, it's a mother--king active crime scene, and the crime is cultural vandalism…Pixels is bad enough to make you hate the things you love, and watching it made me want to take a blowtorch to every scrap of video game memorabilia in my home."—MovieBob
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"Of course, calling Pixels one of Sandler's better movies is like calling a particular strain of Ebola somewhat less horrifically painful; either way, it's not pleasant."—Las Vegas Weekly
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"Hell, I'd even have been happy if Billy Madison, Happy Gilmore or The Waterboy was the star of this movie. Instead it's plain old Adam Sandler, slogging through long dialogue sequences, negating any of the brief goodwill the film could have just stumbled into. This movie feels as though Sandler walked on set straight from his trailer, read his lines off a cue-card, then went back to sleep. At every turn, his indifference to the material is palpable."—io9
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But if you want a gift that doesn't stop giving, just scroll through the audience reviews, because those are chock full of gems that really shine:
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"This film took a s--t on my brain and left it to rot."—Daniel P.
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"A cultural crime scene."—Luke M
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"This crap couldn't possibly be considered a movie. It's more like a torture device for your vision, an insult to even the lowest IQ. I hated this movie. I don't have many regrets in life, but taking my daughter to see this rates pretty high…This movie is a travesty, an utter misery to behold. I really wanted to claw my eyeballs out, but, again, had it not been for my daughter being there with me, I'd be f--king blind right now."—Jason F.
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"The very existence of this movie is a net subtraction on the sum total of human knowledge. It should be erased from the cultural record."—Stuart D.
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"Actually disgusting. Such a bad movie with incredibly poor everything and a s--t ton of sexism."—Gaia G.
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"Lazy and uninspired, it seems as though Sandler and his team of 12 year olds wrote the film over the weekend and forgot to proof read…Pixels wouldn't be worth the one-dollar you pay for an arcade game. So, if you enjoy continuous fart jokes and ****** pop culture references, then this may be the perfect movie for you. Others needn't apply."—Sam M
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"Garbage. I need to wash in pure bleach to remove such a foul stench."—Tucker
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I knew this **** would flop, it looked terrible from the start. Cheesy try hard one-liners with a dryed out actor and a childish premise. Doomed from the beginning.