Adam Sandler’s Pixels was categorically terrible, and this Honest Trailer doesn’t hold back. Enjoy!
Sometimes, the Screen Junkies use their Honest Trailer videos to lovingly poke fun at a movie we all enjoyed, making pointed statements about Hollywood tropes while also highlighting the movie’s strengths.
This is not one of those times.
Pixels, the Adam Sandler comedy that premiered earlier this year to universally awful reviews, has very few redeeming qualities, and so the Honest Trailer asks the big question: How did Adam Sandler manage to ruin what could actually have been a very good film?
“Watch what happens when Sandler gets his hands on a cool premise about humans versus video games,” the voice-over states, “with three unfunny man-children dusting off their old game skills because our soldiers are too dumb to recognize simple patterns.”
The Honest Trailer calls out Sandler for doing the same act since Billy Madison in 1995, “where his only jokes are comparing someone to a pop culture reference.”
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They are also — like we all were — super grossed out about a shapeshifting Q*bert having sex with Josh Gad and having Q*bert babies. Yeahhhh there’s really no explaining that one.
The Honest Trailer wraps up with a reference to Pixels‘s biggest faux-pas: That Sean Bean didn’t die. But, the trailer guy finds a silver lining: “I know it looks like Sean Bean didn’t die in this movie, but look closer at his eyes: See? He’s dead inside.”
Yikes.
Did you defy the odds and enjoy Adam Sandler’s Pixels? Tell us in the comments!