As the president’s first lady, Jane Krakowski, who was recently nominated for an Emmy for her rapid-fire work in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, is completely wasted, with barely a line of dialogue. There are women in the cast, although it’s clear watching Pixels that Sandler can’t work out what to do with them. The rest of the action – directed with little flair by Chris Columbus, the director of the first two (and least inventive) Harry Potter movies – is rote, improved only by a hammy Brian Cox as a grumpy US admiral, and Peter Dinklage, who is clearly having a hoot as Brenner’s childhood nemesis, Plant. The best bit in the film is given away in the trailer, with the Japanese inventor of Pac-Man trying to reason with his creation before getting his arm bitten off by the yellow menace. In his first smart decision as president, Cooper calls in Brenner to help. In their quest to take over planet Earth, the angry aliens send down giant-sized replicas of famous arcade game icons to obliterate the world. It’s soon revealed that the violence is being inflicted by extraterrestrials, who intercepted a Nasa time capsule from the 1980s that contained copies of famous video games and interpreted them as a declaration of war. In clunky fashion, in the midst of the audience getting to know these buffoons, a mysterious attack is made on a military base by what appear to be giant, glowing pixel cubes.
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