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Synopsis: Sam Brenner, Will Cooper, Ludlow Lamonsoff, and Eddie "The Fire Blaster" Plant all played classic arcade video games as teenagers. But now they have to use their skills to try to save the world from aliens. The aliens watched video feeds that they thought was a declaration of war. So they send down the classic arcade games to destroy earth. They also get help from a military specialist. They have three lives and if all three get used then earth will be destroyed, and every time they lose a live the aliens take someone's life. Who will win, us or the aliens? It's an all-out battle to save our planet and everyone on it.
Director(s): Chris Columbus
Production: Sony Pictures
  4 wins & 9 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.6
Metacritic:
27
Rotten Tomatoes:
17%
PG-13
Year:
2015
105 min
$66,412,009
Website
6,037 Views


Somebody is more important!

Freddy, can you keep

the riffraff out of here?

Yo, what's up?

Ah, come on.

You couldn't at least changed?

He told me to rush right over.

What's going on man?

Why is it so crazy out there?

Our air force base

in Guam was attacked.

By who?

I'm not sure.

That's what I wanted to ask you.

Come here.

Check this out.

Me?

Yeah you, come here.

Listen to this.

Does that sound familiar to you?

Yeah. Where do I know that from?

- Can you freeze it?

- Yeah, hold on.

Go in tighter.

That can't be real.

Okay, so you're seeing the

same thing I'm seeing?

What kind of mushrooms did that guy

put on our burgers?

- They're ready for you, Mr. President.

- Great.

I've got to explain this to

the National Security Council.

Listen and do me a favor Sam...

Watch that again. See if there's anything

you can find to help us out.

Yeah. I can sit in your chair?

No, you can't,

and everything is recorded.

Okay, I won't, I won't, I won't.

I'm sitting in the chair.

Give me a break.

Mr. President.

We told the press that it was a

advanced weapons test that misfired.

- So there's no mass panic yet.

- Well good.

We will resolve this thing before there's.

Mr. President, someone has

made a major breakthrough...

in drone technology and it wasn't us.

- This has got Moscow's fingerprints on it.

- Nonsense...

It's a Iranian black ops sideshow,

I guarantee it.

I have a theory. I think based on

an analysis of the footage...

Preliminary indications are that

we were attacked by...

...Galaga.

For whom, sir?

Galaga.

Sons of b*tches.

Then let's blow Galaga to hell!

Who's Galaga?

It's an old timey video game 80's kind of

folks like my dad use to play.

Mr. President, no nation on Earth

that has the military technology...

to simply...

pixelate entire buildings.

Except Iran.

Forget Iran! I thinking it's a cutting

edge multinational enterprise.

An NGO, a think tank,

maybe even a corporation.

We're thinking Iran.

When we should be thinking Google.

Let's blow up Google!

Can someone take away grandpa's keys

away before he drives us into a ditch?

- Who is this person?

- The sandwich guy?

This here is my old

arcade game technical...

...adviser, person.

He is Sam Brenner,

he works in the tech sector.

So, Caltech, MIT?

MIT. Yeah.

Mississippi Institute of Technology.

No, not the one you were thinking of.

Anyway... more to the current point.

Mr. Brenner here was

world "Galaga" champion.

He knows everything there's

to know about this game.

So, what is it you, and your

orange shorts barged in to say?

Just the "Galaga" that attacked us...

...doesn't exists anymore.

Hello! You can download "Galaga"

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Tim Herlihy

Tim Herlihy (born October 9, 1966) is an American screen actor, film producer, screenwriter, and Broadway show author.Films written or produced by Herlihy have grossed over $3 billion at the worldwide box office. He frequently collaborates with Adam Sandler, who played a "Saturday Night Live" character, "The Herlihy Boy", in honor of Tim Herlihy. more…

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