Pixels 🎥 2015 Movie Info

Plot Summary

In 1982, Sam Brenner and his friends Will Cooper and Ludlow “The Wonder Kid” Lamonsoff play at an amusement arcade together before Brenner participates in a video game championship, where he seemingly loses a Donkey Kong match to Eddie “The Fireblaster” Plant. Videotape footage of the event is put in a time capsule that gets launched into outer space. In the present, Brenner, now an electronics installer, is summoned alongside lieutenant colonel Violet van Patten to the White House, where Will, now President of the United States, shows surveillance footage of a besiegement at the Andersen Air Force Base in Guam.

Brenner notes the attack’s resemblance to the game Galaga, but Admiral James Porter of the United States Navy strongly advocates against its inference in the case. Brenner meets up with Ludlow, who reveals the attack was caused by an alien force that mistook the time capsule’s footage as a declaration of war and are now challenging Earth to a best-of-three battle using technological recreations of the championship’s games, claiming they have won the first match. Brenner and Ludlow inform Will of a coordinated aim at India, but he dismisses their concerns. After the aliens win the second match by demolishing the Taj Mahal as Arkanoid, Brenner and Ludlow train Navy SEALs to play the games while Violet develops effective rayguns.

Calling themselves the “Arcaders”, the team heads to London, where the aliens attack Hyde Park as Centipede before being repelled by Brenner and Ludlow. Will, Ludlow and Brenner recruit a convicted Eddie to assist in New York City, where the Arcaders battle a giant Pac-Man in Mini Coopers representing the ghosts. After Brenner defeats Pac-Man, the Arcaders receive Q*bert as a trophy. During a celebration at the White House however, the aliens announce that one of the Arcaders has cheated, meaning Earth forfeits the challenge.

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