The first fifteen minutes are quite promising and light-hearted. Two stars for that. But, after some breezy introductions, it becomes tediously unfunny. Once our NPC achieves sentience, the story has no idea what to do and so goes around in circles repeating the same scenes again and again. Like an NPC, ironically.

The tone is confusing - like a silly pop movie for very very young children, but with violence and swearing. Who is this aimed at, exactly?

After about 15 minutes, the rot sets in and we begin to be drip-fed with the usual Hollywood talking points. You know the ones. Non-jokes about white privilege, online toxicity, racism, homophobia, gender roles, 'manchildren', the patriarchy, etc. If you think that 'gamer virgin' is a quality punchline for a multi-million dollar global comedy, then you'll absolutely love it.

I really wanted this to be an affectionate comedy, but it's a movie written by people who don't play video games, or hate video games, or hate the people who play them, or dislike people in general. It's probably a combination of those things.