A tech billionaire leaves his estate in a video game easter egg. First-come inherits all. In 2045 gaming is what people live for. Reality is too hideous. The whole world is after this egg. The whole world includes Innovative Online Industries (IOI), the evil corporation headed up by the loathsome badguy, Sorrento. Wade Parzival is on a mission to get to the egg first. He collects allies, friends, and even a girlfriend on his quest.

RP1 is a 2018, 2h 20m, Steven Spielberg release that is rated 72/77 on RT & 7.4 on IMDB. There's lots to like in RP1. The wide scale CGI, art, and animation are quite something. There's impressive scenes and elements stacked on top of eachother. The core of the movie's fun-factor is the steady stream of call-outs to other superhero and sci-fi/fantasy works, which is the key element of the film. RP1 takes place IRL and also in the game, so it intersperses live-action and CGI. The Chinese show, The King's Avatar (which is about a game competition), has a similar divide. Doing it that way is almost double the work. (For the record, KA has some deep flaws, but it is still better than RP1, overall). One of the gamers looks like a metallic Deion Sanders in CGI. If /he/ had made an appearance, my rating would have gone up a point. (DS raises the level of everything he touches, afterall).

Tye Sheridan is ML, Wade Parzival, Olivia Cooke (Queen Alicent) is FL, Art3mis/Samantha, and Ben Mendelsohn is badguy Sorrento (He's fantastically likable and decent in The Outsider). The hilarious T. J. Miller is I-R0k; they have fun with his part. Unfortunately, the acting is bland and reflective of bland direction. There's formulaic music, cutting, direction, dialogue, and characters. At one point, just like the PS2, all of this was new, but that was then. RP1 is frequently stale - so played out. There's plenty of bright spots, but they are too few and far between to light up the night sky or the game console. The value in watching is for the tie-ins and the visuals, which is generally not enough for me. A few good elements a good show does not make. RP1 is not a good show.

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Age 14+ $h!+ ×2 and 1 f💣 involving Chucky, from Child's Play, in the last battle.

A cat in a low cut dress with huge mams.

Some foreplay in CGI - Feely dancing, no kissing.

Some freaky creepy and scary moments. Someone drops in on the movie The Shining for a bit, with a bonus decaying zombie.

Rated TV-PG-13: Parents Cautioned

Re-📺? Nope

What do I recommend? Trollhunters and its sequels - 3Below and Wizards, Avatar The Last Airbender, Hunter X Hunter (watch at least until they get to the prison and then decide), The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, Watership Down, the entire works of Ghilbi Studio, Over the Garden Wall, The Dragon Prince, Stranger Things, Cobra Kai, The Mitchells VS The Machines, Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, The Eminence in Shadow, and the entire catalogue of Star Wars shows on the Disney Channel, for starters.

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