Rating: PG-13 Director: Shawn Levy This was one of those movies that I had low expectations for, however it exceeded my expectations which I believe made the movie better. I wanted to see this movie when it first came out but only because of Ryan Reynolds. When I saw it this weekend, there was so much to love about it. The whole idea of characters living inside a game has been done before but I don’t recall any where the characters can associate/communicate themselves with the real world. It took me a little bit before I was intrigued by the whole idea, but once Guy started leveling up and getting Millie used to him, it made more sense and was a lot more interesting. When the characters kept talking about Antwan, I was expecting some big scary guy, not Taika Waititi, however he played the character exceptionally well. I originally thought he was the director of this film because I knew he directed Jojo Rabbit but also starred in it, like he did in Free Guy. When I found out he wasn’t the director, I was a little shocked to see him play a pretty major role in another director’s film, but I guess they are close friends. There was a ton of hilarious comedy in this movie on top of the actual plot. Ryan Reynolds portrayed the nerdy character very well and was funny, just like in most of his films. I really appreciated when he was fighting dude and used his glasses to pull out a shield, which happened to be Captain America’s shield while playing the MCU score. That was fantastic, but what was even cooler was they had Chris Evans watching the streaming of the video game and made a comment about what he saw. I appreciated the humor that was in this movie. I always like to look at the cast after watching it to see up and coming actors/actresses or to find people I know were in it, but just couldn’t think of their names. In this case, I didn’t know a lot of famous actors that were in this movie. For instance, Dwayne Johnson, Hugh Jackman, John Krasinski, and Tina Fey. After watching the movie, I searched on youtube where they were in the film and found out they all played voices of some kind, but never showed their faces. I actually thought it was pretty cool that all these famous actors were willing to play voices and they all did a great job. I can definitely see why this movie is up for best visual effects! Everytime Guy would put the glasses on, parts of the game became alive to him, but when he took them off it was the normal everyday surroundings. I think they did a great job defining the real world versus what is in the game. I enjoyed this movie a LOT! Trailer: youtu.be/X2m-08cOAbc
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