Movie Review: Ratchet and Clank (2016)

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Hello All,

    Okay now I know what you’re thinking, “It’s a videogame movie it’s going to be bad right?” True the track record for them has not been stellar, as the only one anyone might say as being remotely okay is maybe Prince of Persia, even if it was only because that film was above average at best. Hell, if you want an example just look at the last review for Hitman: Agent 47 I did, and that was the second attempt at that franchise. Sure we have a few more of these films coming up in the future that look promising, like Angry Birds and Assassin’s Creed, but could it be possible that the first really good video game movie might already have been made and is now only being released to the public this week? Let’s find out together shall we?

Plot Summary - Based on the video game series of the same name, the story tells the origins of how the Lombax Ratchet (James Arnold Taylor) met the robot Clank (David Kaye) as the attempt to stop the plot of the evil Chairman Drek (Paul Giamatti) and the Blarg race.

Pros - Now I haven’t played a ratchet and clank game, but from what I’ve seen the animation is dead on the same type of animation as from the games which is honestly pretty good. The voice cast does a really good job as well, especially Sylvester Stallone in a role where I had to wait through the credits to figure out who he played. The humour and action are for the most part on point as well, as it decides not to really go into unnecessarily vulgar humour for the sake of trying to be edgy when it doesn’t need to be. They even take a few creative jabs at themselves in terms of some of the plot points. I did talk to some fans of the games after the show and they said the game was also very faithful to the nature of the games.

Cons - The plot does have a familiar feel to it, as it’s the kind of space bearing story we’ve seen quite a few times before. Also there are moments where the jokes fall flat and story leaves a couple of unanswered questions.

Final Score - 8/10

The film is pretty good. Definitely worth a watch even if you don’t know the games, and one I can definitely recommend. It’s amazing to me then that it has, at the time of writing this, a 15% on rotten tomatoes. Maybe I’m soft hearted for a good effort.

Next - Keanu. This took me way too long to decide.

So I’m doing a new thing, the previous review is here. It’s the Hitman review I mentioned above.

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Until then, I’ll see you folks at the movies.