Fun adventure

Rating: 9/10 (2 February 2019)

Ready Player One is a very entertaining movie. First it is a fun adventure movie, typical for Spielberg. Fast paced action, lot of good effects, tongue-in-cheeck comments and jokes. Not really a dull or slow moment in there at all. Spielberg knows how to make these kinds of movies, and he does it well, once again. It helps to have a good story to work with, and in Ready Player One he got it (based on the book). Nothing that reinvents the genre, stripped to it's bones it is quite a typical quest adventure story. Riddles, hidden clues, and one grand prize that one good and one evil team races to get to first. But not every movie need to invent and evolve, it is enough to do it well.
The other part is the massive amount of hidden "Easter Eggs" and references to other movies and pop culture (mostly from the 80s and 90s) that are abundant throughout the movie. Some are evident and an integral part of the story, like King Kong, the KnightRider DeLorean combination that Parzival drives, the dancing from Saturday Night Live and so on. Others are more subtle and hidden, some visual detail in the background or comment, like Sorrento's comment about Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. It is fun to find and recognize them, prompting a quick trip down memory lane. There are likely a lot of them that I haven't found yet.
Well, another reason to watch it again. Goodie!