Pixels

"Game On."

Jul 24 2015 PG-13 1h 45m
Action, Comedy, Fantasy

Video game experts are recruited by the military to fight 1980s-era video game characters who've attacked New York.

Plot

Sam has been one of the best arcade gamers of his time. Once in an international tournament NASA sent the video recording of all the games to space for intelligent beings to find and know more about humans. However the aliens interpreted the games as a challenge and began attacking Earth using the video game data. It's now up to Sam and other old time arcade game champions to save the Earth from the video game alien invasion.

Written by

Tim Herlihy, Timothy Dowling, Patrick Jean

Directed by

Chris Columbus

Production Countries

United States of America, China

Production Companies

Happy Madison Productions, China Film Group Corporation, LStar Capital, 1492 Pictures, Columbia Pictures, Sony Pictures

Languages

English

Awards

5 wins & 9 nominations total

Scores
# of Votes
168,134
Average Rating
5.6 out of 10
Metascore
27
Popularity
NA