Ready Player One Is Roger Rabbit For A New Generation!

Rating: 10/10 (30 April 2018)

When I first the trailer from Comic Con, I just got completely hooked and have never felt this much hyped on Steven Spielberg movie in such a long time. After making some drama movies, Spielberg was able to return on making fun entertaining movies again, like when he made movies that were fun such as "Jaws," "Hook," "Jurassic Park," "Minority Report," and many to count. The movie itself is based on a book by Ernest Cline while he co writes it with Zak Penn, as the movie itself is about a teenage boy name Wade Watts as he lived his life at the stacks in Columbus, Ohio. He has a huge admiration of James Halliday, the creator of a place that takes inside virtual reality called the OASIS, where everyone can do all the things they want to and it is filled with many pop cultures references as it deals with movies, video games, 70s and 80s music, and more. Watts goes into the OASIS as his avatar Parzival, where he comes across with some friends he meets and has a crush on girl name Samantha Cook and her avatar Art3mis. However, an evil cooperate name Nolan Sorrento as he is trying to take over the OASIS, while finding an Easter Egg that Halliday has hidden. So Wade and his friends must save the OASIS, and retrieve the Easter Egg before it gets into the wrong hands. Before I continue, this will not contain any spoilers as the movie had just come out a while go, so I rather you go see it without ruining the surprises. This movie is filled with surprises, and really had such a fun time to see this on the biggest screen as possible. I thought the story that I describe it, may sound similar about good guys stopping the bad guys before getting into the wrong hands, but for what it is I think it is told well for what it needs to be. The characters as I'll admit, there are some moments where you a know bit about their backstory (particularly Wade's and Samantha's), but not develop enough. Despite this, they're still likable, and I do have some relations to Wade's character, as he is like me that he really admires Halliday for being one of his idols and learning so much history about him as he has so much love for nostalgia. For me, I have so much an admiration for some of my favorite filmmakers like Spielberg, for example, as he has a love for making movie and always has a passion for telling stories, and getting to know about the characters. Wade is somewhat relatable, and nothing more I can say about. The cast in this movie all did great. For the adults, Mark Rylance, Ben Mendelsohn, and Simon Pegg have all given very good performances, but for the young actors Tye Sheridan and Olivia Cooke are outstanding, as they both have a really great chemistry, and the romance is somewhat sweet. For Alan Silvestri, I thought his music was really good, and I think I can barely hear the "Back to the Future," when the Delorean pops up. Made need to listen to the score as I bought it off on iTunes and I can't wait to listen to that. Sure it would've been interesting for Spielberg's longtime composer John Williams to do the music, but Silvestri isn't a bad choice. The action in this movie are exciting, and really enjoy hearing some familiar songs that appeared in the movie. Especially hearing the song "Jump" by Van Halen, when it was heard in the 2nd trailer. The special effects are terrific, and the mo-cap work here is top notch. I really did enjoy seeing the references in the movie like the Delorean, the bike from "Akira," Batman, and of course and probably the best one is seeing the Iron Giant kicking butt. Before I end my review, I just want to bring up that the movie is very different from the book. I have read it twice, and really love it, but there some portions that the movie strays away from. So if you are expecting to be more like the book,then you'll be disappointed and won't accept any of the changes they made. If you want it to be different from the book, then you will have a great time. The movie is definetly a love letter to pop culture as well as 80s nostalgia. Also, it really does have a nice heart to it, and I am more than happy for Spielberg as he had to accomplish for taking such a challenge on how to adapt this book into a movie that deals with pop culture. What you know it? He nailed it! For the movie, not only is it going to be in my top favorite movies of 2018, but in my top favorite Spielberg movies. And another thing, when Hollywood adapts popular video games into a movie, they pretty much failed on every level, but this movie is probably going to be one of the best if not the best video game movie of all time. In conclusion, "Ready Player One" is Roger Rabbit for a new generation, and you are going to have a wonderful time at the movies. I am giving it a 10 out of 10.