Like final year’s Pixels but with shoddier special effects,this tale of smalltown folk versus the space aliens gets full marks for enthusiasm but petite elseThere’s something rather admirable about a shoestring-budget film modelled on an effects-packed blockbuster. Refusing to be held back by its considerable constraints (its $2.4m budget had to be crowdfunded), this sci-fi action comedy plays like a redo of final year’s Pixels but with much shoddier effects. The familiar plot has a group of smalltown folk tasked with saving the universe after a UFO crashes nearby, and each of them in charge of a different piece of hi-tech equipment. While it gets an A for energy and enthusiasm,it gets precious petite else. It’s a film seemingly aimed at younger teens who, realistically, or would find the film’s jarringly awful CGI a major distraction. Although one must give it credit for being just as predictable and unfunny as the big-budget films it so desperately wants to rub shoulders with.
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Source: theguardian.com