Karry Best movie of this year hands down!

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RipDelight This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Eric Stevenson It's been years, close to a decade, since I saw an episode of the Angry Video Game Nerd. He is the most referenced Internet series ever created. When Channel Awesome became massive, I sort of forgot about him. This movie features the AVGN having people wanting him to review the awful ET video game. He goes to the place where the copies are said to be buried. He finds out the game was a map leading to an alien in Area 51.This movie is two hours long and I really did feel that was unnecessary. There aren't even that many jokes in this. Some of the effects aren't that bad, but others are really cheesy. Where was the singer from the intro in this movie too? Still, it's a completely harmless movie and the TGWTG anniversary movies really are better. I knew this Slender Man film would be bad. **1/2

MaximumMadness If there's something to be said for "Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie", it's that charm and passion can go a long way. And I think that's something that far too many people forget- or just ignore- when it comes to films.A film can have a lot of issues. It can be rife with clichés. Confusingly edited. Even problematically written. But if the actors on-screen are charming, if there's clearly passion poured into the production and if it's coming from a pure creative place, a lot can be forgiven. It's why films like "Hudson Hawk", "Rocky Horror" and most Troma releases have gone on to attain a cult status despite decidedly mixed (even sub-par in some cases) quality. Charm and passion for the project that rubs off on the audience.And I think that's the best way to describe this film- it's a film that oozes charm and passion, despite its issues. And those issues are numerous, I will admit. But I still smiled throughout it's somewhat bloated running time, knowing I was seeing someone pursuing their dreams to tell a story on the big-screen. And there's something to be said for that.James Rolfe reprises his iconic web-character the "Nerd", who has become somewhat disenchanted by his going-nowhere-quickly life. In particular, he's put off by his fans constantly begging him to review "Eee Tee" (obviously a riff on the infamous "E.T." video game), which is said to be one of the worst games of all time. After some contemplation, he joins his cameraman Cooper (Jeremy Suarez) and the beautiful Mandi (Sarah Glendening) to go on a road-trip to try and debunk the popular internet folktale that Atari buried thousands of "Eee Tee" cartridges in the desert. However, the Nerd doesn't know that Mandi is actually a mole for a video-game company making a sequel to "Eee Tee", and is just using the journey as a way to get some cheap publicity. Things are further complicated when the army intervenes and it quickly becomes apparent that there is a much bigger and more sinister story at play...The film is messy. And that's where the film loses the most points. The script is more of a barrage of sub- plots and episodic "misadventures", and the various scenes are only tenuously connected. Much more akin to a series of TV-episodes strung together than a singular cohesive narrative. Although I wasn't too bothered by this. It's almost video-gamey in a way. (Like levels) And it really isn't until the climax that things go really off the rails, but by that point, you've been won-over by the likable characters and silly presentation. But still, I can see the messy structure being off-putting to some.The humor is also very, well... unfunny at times. It's hit-and- miss to the extreme, which is where a lot of people seem to be having issues. This isn't quite the same as the standard "AVGN" episodes you see online, where the humor organically comes only from the character. There's a lot of attempts at broader slap- stick humor, some meta- jokes poking fun at itself and some bizarrely specific references. And it doesn't often land. When it does, it's great. But when it doesn't, you're just kinda left scratching your head. Once or twice, I even had to stop and question if some of the jokes were deliberate attempts at anti-humor because I just didn't... get it.But, those two major complaints being said... I still liked it. I still had a good time. And it was thanks to those charm and passion factors.Every aspect of this film comes across as loving tribute and homage to things writer/directors James Rolfe and Kevin Finn hold dear, and you can tell they're having the time of their lives. The best moments of the film- the convoluted Sci-Fi angle that is introduced early on, the laughably (and purposely) bad miniature- model work, the shoddy effects and the general silly atmosphere... they're just so much fun to watch. There's no way to see a kitchen-strainer being used in a miniature model and not crack up at the reference to cheesy old Science Fiction B-movies.Then there's the cast, particularly in Rolfe and Glendening, who are great in their roles. There's also a very amusing over-the-top baddie in Stephen Mendel, a fun "quirky scientist" character in Time Winters and some great cameos including "E.T." creator Howard Scott Warshaw.And there's also the fact that Rolfe and Finn are actually pretty good in terms of their visual direction. It's a competently constructed film, with a keen sense of shot composition, flow and tonality. They almost never fall back on the old-traps first time feature directors often succumb to, there's no over- reliance on shaky-cam nonsense, and they convey the story and themes in a very solid way. I'd honestly like to see them get more work, or be given the chance to direct a bigger-budgeted feature to see how they'd handle it.Honestly, I think that with the material they have, if they just edited the film down and trimmed the fat so-to-speak, a lot of the naysayers might have enjoyed it a lot more. There's a lot of delight to be had with the elements at play... it's all just a bit too convoluted and the jokes just a bit too hit-and-miss at such a needlessly long runtime. I say cut it down about 15-20 minutes and it'd be a lot better.Whether or not you'll like this film really comes down to how much you're willing to forgive. I personally found so much fun to be had with the material and the performers that I could forgive a lot.Is it a flawed film? For sure. Is it objectively bad? Probably. But is it charming? Absolutely.I give it a slightly above-average 6 out of 10. See it with an open mind.

andrewfoisy A self indulgent fest of unfunny jokes, bad acting, and terrible side characters.The movie itself has nothing to do with the Nerd other than the Nerd character being in it.Other than that you get a movie that is not good enough to be called a B-movie, but has so much more effort and time put into it.The length alone harms this movie, if it was 30 minutes it would probably much better.Overall disappointing and near impossible to watch, I found RedLetterMedia's Space Cop better; that alone is terrifying.

donaldgibson-80587 I find the film enjoyable though the games in it are just fictional (probably to avoid copyright infringement). The film was meant to be a tribute to the old B movies (cheap special effects and (hilarious) bad acting). It told us the legend of the Atari burial of New Mexico and we finally get to see the Nerd play ET (by it's fictional form "Eee Tee"). The film even contains the charm from the series like the Nerd's rants and swears. I didn't even know that the Atari logo is based off of Mt. Fuji until today when I first watched the movie. True that most of you Users say the film is Sugar Honey Ice Tea or terrible but I disagree with you. We also have a cameo of Mike Matai, The Guitar Guy, The Nostalgia Critic and even Lloyd Kaufman. The film has over 170 likes over 20 dislikes on YouTube.