I'm going to go see Ratchet & Clank. UPDATE: It was "GOOD."

[DivinePaladin]

arcaneguyver said:

DivinePaladin said:
Ignore most of the reviews if you've read any. It's getting a HUGE amount of critic hate for a myriad of ridiculous reasons - it has guns therefore it's bad, it's based on a video game therefore it's bad, it's not Disney so I don't like it, somebody else said it's bad so it's bad. Seriously, the critic hate is real here. Somebody compared it to one of the worst films of all time just to be extreme about it.

Going over the reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, it seems like reviewers are hung up on: 1) Ratchet & Clank is based on a video game, and 2) we've seen it all before. The only comment I keep seeing that makes me wary is that it's a kids movie, not a family movie, reinforcing the obnoxious tone I was trying to ignore from the trailers.

Gonna go see it regardless, but keeping my expectations far lower than I'd prefer.

It definitely leans younger, yeah. I blame that on the writing direction - series writer TJ Fixman left after the first draft because of so-called creative differences, and he's never been known to, say, shoehorn in a bunch of extra characters.