Video Games: The Movie

Videos Games: The Movie is a 2014 animated comedy adventure movie directed by Chris Renaud and Tom McGrath. The movie is about all video game characters teaming up to fight a big threat, which is Thanos. The movie stars Dee Bradley Baker, Charles Martinet, Roger Craig Smith, Erin Matthews, Kelly Asbury, Chris Rock and John Paul Karliak.

= Plot = The movie starts with the video game characters enjoying their normal day in their hometowns. But suddenly the ground is shaking the characters are confused and scared, out of nowhere, a robot escapes from underground. The masked man is revealed to be a purple man named Thanos (Dee Bradley Baker). Sonic (Roger Craig Smith) asks if he wants anything or if he wants from chilly dogs but Thanos says that he is gonna watch them suffer. A laser beam shoots at Amy and she disappears. The video game characters run into a empty cave. They make it, but some of them didn’t make it. The only video game characters left were Sonic (Roger Craig Smith), Mario (Charles Martinet), PacMan (Erin Matthews), Link (Kelly Asbury) and Pikachu (Ikue Othani). Link grabs a torch and guides the characters to the end of the cave. The camera zooms all the way up to space showing a spaceship.

All of the video game characters are trapped with nothing to do, including the villians. A minion of Thanos says that Sonic, Mario, Patman, Link and Pikachu got away. Thanos rages in anger and tells the minion to find them. He also says that he wont give up until he catches every single last one of them. Thanos walks up to a lever, pushes it down, sending a yellow beam all the way down to earth. The beam teleports all of Thanos’ minions who track down the video game characters. Thanos laughs maniacllay for 10 seconds. 5 minutes later, Link is still leading the characters to the end of the cave, PacMan says when will they get there, and Link says soon. Suddenly all of them fall down a hole. Everyone is ok, but they see a dark shadowy figure standing in the darkness. Link reaches the torch and shine it at the figure to see who it is, but turns out it’s a character. His name is Crash Bandicoot (Tom McGrath). Crash says that he knows all about Thanos. He says that Thanos was born in outerspace. He was born to be rude, he would bully people and make fun of them. His parents decided to set him up for adoption. Thanos didn’t care. He burned down a orphanage but everyone survived. Thanos ran away from the orphanage.

He lived 59 years without a parent or a legal guardian. He clamied his own spaceship and his own minions. He has came back to bully more people and he wont stop until everyone is suffering from his wrath. Everyone says “Wow.” including Pikachu. Then they hear a noise, out of nowhere, Thanos’ minions appear. The video game characters fight the minions for 2 minutes until some of them are defeated. The other half of the minions retreat. Mario says that we have to defeat Thanos. The others agree, but PacMan says “How will we do that? He has too many minions. We wont be able to defeat all of them.” Mario tells all of them the plan “Ok. You’re good at building things right? We will build a spaceship but we will also dress up as Thanos’ minions. Then when the time is right, we’ll charge at him and ban Thanos from the video game universe. We have to do it at 12am SHARP.” the others (including Crash Bandicoot) agrees.

Then we get a montage of the video game characters building the spaceship and making minion outfits. The spaceship is done, the video game characters get on and blast off into space. They see Thanos’ spaceship and go straight at it. Thanos’ intruder detecter looks at the characters to see if there is weapons or false information in there, but it thinks they’re not intruders. They enter the spaceship only to see a bunch of minions. They head to the control room and see Thanos controlling the ship. Sonic superspeed charges at Thanos and knocks him out, causing the spaceship to crash back down to earth. The minions fight the characters for 4 minutes until Thanos comes back alive. All of them fight Thanos left, right, fowards, and backwards until he has his magic sword. He stomps it in the ground causing the world to rip apart. Crash Bandicoot takes his magic wand and his beams goes at Thanos’ head.

Thanos is then showed screaming. He uses his sword to block off the beam until it explodes. It causes Thanos to get thrown back in the wall. Pikachu uses her lightning bolt to knock Thanos out. 1 minute later, Thanos wakes up. He realizes that all the video game characters are released. PacMan uses the ban hammer and smashes Thanos with it, causing him to forever be banned from the video game universe. Crash uses his magic wand to make the world to back together and it works. Everyone is cheering. 1 week later, Sonic, Mario, PacMan, Link, Crash and Pikachu were declared heroes of the video game universe.

= Cast = Dee Bradley Baker as Thanos

Charles Martinet as Mario

Roger Craig Smith as Sonic

Erin Matthews as PacMan

Kelly Asbury as Link

John Paul Karliak as Talking Minion

Ikue Othani as Pikachu

Tom McGrath as Crash Bandicoot

Frank Welker as Minions (vocal effects)

Selena Gomez as Amy

Ariel Winter as Girl Video Game Character

James Arnold Taylor, Demi Lovato, Robert Downey Jr., Mike Epps, John Astin, Sean Cullen and Clé Bennett as Video Game Characters (various)

= Production = In 2011, Chris Renaud announced that he was working on a movie with Tom McGrath that would star various video game characters. He also said that Dee Bradley Baker will take the lead role as the supervillian. He also said that his workers were also working on it. In 2012, he said that voice recording is in development. In late 2013, he released the trailer for the movie which was delete 3 months later for a unknown reason. In 2014, the movie was released in theaters and Netflix. But in 2016, Netflix removed the movie from their app.

= Trivia = This is the first and only time Tom McGrath and Chris Renaud have teamed up.