You're better served playing the games all over again, they're surely better.īased on the hit video game series, Ratchet and Clank is about a Lombax wanting to do more with his life as he comes across a defect robot who warns others that the galaxy is in danger. Long story short, this movie isn't very good, not even if you're a hardcore Ratchet and Clank fans. They're both pretty good, but they're only here so they can boast they have some name actors in the film and use them to promote the film. Oh and Paul Giamatti and John Goodman voice characters here as well. This really would have been better served as a straight-to-DVD movie, there's just nothing here of substance and I feel that people, who're fans of the franchise, wouldn't have had such high hopes for the movie. Nefarious and Qwark arguing about one-liners and how to use them, but that's all I can really remember. It doesn't even feel like the video game it is based on, other than it features a lot of the same characters. But, sadly, you can't please everybody and this movie, trying to bring everybody together, failed to have its own identity. They're being far more pandering in hoping to appeal to both the fans of the game and people who may have not been familiar with the game. They do what they think people want to see, not what people ACTUALLY want to see. There's no reason you still can't find an angle to tell an entertaining story in this context. But there's no reason that that should be a limiting factor. In fact, with this type of movie, simplicity is sort of one of the most important things. Very simple story, but that's not really the problem. You also get to see the origin of Ratchet and Clank's friendship. But, of course, he isn't the real villain and he's being manipulated by somebody else to do his bidding. For what reason does he want to do this, I have no fucking idea. The villain wants to create his own planets, which he achieves by taking pieces from other planets he destroys. Ratchet gets to meet his idol, Captain Qwark, who ends up being a vainglorious fool. Ratchet wants to join this group of intergalactic rangers who protect the galaxy from villains who want to destroy it. They use lots of color to disguise the fact that the movie doesn't really have much in the way of substance. This comes across like a movie that was just released because they had been talking about it for years and, eventually, just decided to release the first thing they could that could pass for a feature-length film. There's a few laughs here and there, but they're more chuckles as opposed to laughs. I've certainly seen worse, particularly video game movies, but there's just nothing about this movie that I liked. But, if I'm being perfectly honest, this movie is just no good whatsoever. That's mostly because the fact that it'd have to be a CGi movie, but the fact is also that the characters and the story seem suited for that transition. And I felt that the game would make a smoother transition to a movie than others. I don't wanna say that playing the game felt as if you were playing a Pixar movie, but I kinda get what they were saying. It was funny, the characters were likable and the gameplay was fun. A lot of people, at the time, thought of Ratchet and Clank as if you were playing a Pixar movie. But Ratchet and Clank game I did play I legitimately enjoyed. I was more of a Jak and Daxter guy, I owned the original trilogy for PS2. Back when the series was in its heyday and the peak of its critical and commercial success, in the PS2, I never actually played any of them. As far as Ratchet and Clank, I only played one game in the franchise and that was on the PS3. But it's not a proper adaptation of an actual game, it's just inspired by gaming, and it's a pretty damn great movie at that. Many people say that Wreck-it Ralph is the best video game movie ever made and they're certainly right. Which brings me to the fact that I'm disappointed that there has been no good adaptation of a video game ever. The point is that I've spent, or for most of those systems my mother did since a lot of those where in my childhood, thousands upon thousands of dollars on game consoles and, obviously, games for those devices. Which, if you're a longtime fan, you know was one of Nintendo's biggest failures. To give you a bit of perspective, I've owned a Super Nintendo, Sega Game Gear, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance, 3DS, N64, GameCube, Wii, Dreamcast, PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4, the original Xbox, Xbox 360, I also even owned a Virtual Boy. I've been playing video games, almost, my entire life.
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