About time!

Rating: 9/10 (24 February 2013)

Mindset before movie: I saw the preview and as an 80s child, I was screaming with excitement. I told all my friends about it and bugged my girlfriend until it came out, we went and saw it right away. I actually just watched it a 2nd time to see if I still felt the same. Sometimes when you're so excited about a movie the excitement carries through the movie so much that you can even convince yourself something is good even if it's bad because who wants to be that wrong, right? Just like when I saw "Batman Forever"...up yers Joel Schumacher.
Mindset after movie: It's just as good the second time! This movie was perfectly casted John C. Reilly is awesome, I just wanna hug Sarah Silverman's character (..or the real Sarah Silverman, love her) but the best was King Candy played by Pirate Steve himself, Alan Tudyk. The writing in this movie was amazing, didn't miss a beat. It's one of those ideas that seems to write itself with the endless creativity available in these video game environments. And the throwbacks; Street Fighter, Sonic, Q-Bert, Pac-Man, Centipede, more than I know. I had all these systems and played most of these games growing up. This movie made me feel like a kid again. I know that actual kids will love this too, all kids love candy and there is candy everywhere. The little kid that's in the parents of these kids will spend most of the movie having flashbacks to when they were a kid, like I did. The only thing that sucked was when it ended and I was back in the real world and I realized I'm an adult with adult problems, kind of a bummer.
If you're like me and you grew up in the 80s and loved video games, watch this movie! You'll love it, the kids will love it. I'm gonna buy it even, I know, crazy! I wouldn't get your panties in a twist about the lack of Mario. The fact the Nintendo world was barely touched means there are endless possibilities for a sequel. I'm putting this on the 'hope there will be a sequel' shelf right next to "The Incredibles". One day...