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Good movie, but best of all time? Hardly . . .

Excellent, Without a doubt!!

Pretty good movie overall. First half was nothing special but it got better as it went along.

Ratchet and Clank is based off of the classic Playstation video game series of the same name. The game holds a good deal of nostalgia for me, and I remember playing the games with fond memories. They had awesome science fiction settings, great gameplay, and fun puzzles, action and challenges. So when the movie was announced, I was interested. Having finally been able to view the film on home video, however, I was underwhelmed. Ratchet and Clank have never been more bland.The film follows Ratchet, a Lombok who lives on a backwoods planet, fixing ships for customers. He dreams of becoming a galactic ranger, an elite group of defenders. When planets start mysteriously being destroyed by an evil villain named Drek, the galactic rangers need to hire a new member. Luckily for Ratchet, they are stopping by his planet to hold tryouts. Ratchet is initially disappointed, but his plans change when Clank, a defect robot who escaped Drek's factory, crash lands with an important message for the rangers. Together, Ratchet, Clank and the Rangers need to stop Drek, and his planet destroying battle station.The films plot is fairly basic, but fits well with the Ratchet and Clank series, being closely tied in to the video games plot. The animation in the film is fairly good, with Ratchet and Clank looking very much like the video games, and some excellently animated science fiction goodness, with great spaceships, shots of planets and so on. Some of the dialogue between the characters was funny enough to be enjoyable, and I personally felt the film to be watchable without feeling bored or put off.Even so, there is little else to like about the film, in my opinion. The characters were bland, which is a shame as even the video game does their characterization better. Ratchet was completely boring, Clank dull. The rangers all had single personality traits. The villain was evil for evil's sake. The plot, as mentioned, was a bit on the weak side, although this is not necessarily a terrible thing, as the film is based off of a video game where plot is secondary to gameplay. The issue here is that this does not work in a film, which is mostly supposed to be plot driven. Although some of the dialogue was fun, much of it was a solid miss. Jokes fall through constantly, which is a shame for a game series known for its light-hearted humour. While the animation was good in some aspects, much of it came off looking a bit underwhelming. Some settings were grand, and others poorly done or dull looking.All in all, this was a mixed bag for me. Nostalgia kept me watching, but the film seems to lack a lot of what could have made it excellent. It suffers from a poor story, one sided characters, mediocre animation, and hit or miss humour. Some of the animation work was well done, others not so much. This film seemed to suffer from a lack of a target audience. Is it shooting for Nostalgia, or child-friendly? Kids may get a kick out of it, but it lacks much of the charm of many animated films today. It looks and sounds like a the game, but lacks the finish to please hardcore fans of the video game series as well. Frankly, a film that was neither good nor bad, but an admirable attempt to make a big budget video game film. It didn't work too well this time, but there is a silver thread in this film. It does a passable job, and it can be tried out for those with younger kids who may be getting into the Ratchet and Clank game released alongside this film. A solid attempt that unfortunately fell through in many ways. 5/10

I might have heard the name, but seems nothing familiar. So it is very much like my first encounter with these game characters. And this is really a good first film, I enjoyed, but did not like, because I'm not the target audience. I know, many grown-ups liked it, but they had reasons like they have known this for some time. One thing that fascinated me was the production quality. I can't believe, it was not those silly B class animation, it was very much comparable to Disney, Pixar and DreamWorks films. The only thing that did not favour it was the story. If they have got that part right, it would have been one of the best animations of the years.So the truth is I tempted to rate it higher for the quality of animation alone. The directors, and all artists must be praised for that. If I were a kid, it would have been my favourite. So what I'm saying it, this film will be loved by children. There's not child film critic, otherwise this film would have been appreciated better. The problem is the critics did not like it, and so the adults, but families with kids might have chance to enjoy it.Some of the big names in the voice-over artist list, but that did not help the film to see its success. There's no innovation in it, everything you see in the film was already exploited in other films. All those the space warriors thing, the chosen one, villain, mad scientist, betrayal, you have seen them from 'Star wars' to 'Guardian of the Galaxy'. That is another reason for not having a good time with it. It is still very much a watchable film.5/10

Simply put, within the intrinsic limitations of its scope, "Ratchet and Clank" is a very good movie.Reviewing and rating animated movies, as opposed to the more typical live-action movies, is a bit problematic for two reasons.Firstly, live-action movies have the advantage that they break down into a collection of individual genres and, as somewhat of a general rule, movies are usually evaluated from within the context of their own genre. So "Das Boot", "Operation Petticoat", and "The Hunt for Red October", while they may all be movies about submarines, they're such different movies from different genres that they don't lend themselves to being compared with each other or rated relative to each other. And so they aren't. Imagine if you had to compare and contrast "Alien" and "Schindler's List". You might be able to make a reasonable comparison on some individual aspects of these movies, such as Best Actor or some other technical facet, but I can't imagine how you'd successfully review these movies side-by-side.Animated movies, on the other hand, even at this late date, are all simply lumped together in one giant basket, "animated feature". My best guess is that this is an artefact of the history of animated movies: early on in the evolution of movies, the only kinds of animated movies that were in common circulation were, for example, Disney animated features. By definition therefore, anything animated was a "cartoon" and, as everybody knew, cartoons were exclusively aimed at kids. Obviously all animated features were part of a single genre.As animated features grew and expanded to encompass more sophisticated themes and story lines, the larger worldview of them has not evolved to keep up. The devoted fans of animation see the distinctions, but serious "cinema professionals" still see animation, for all the billions of dollars it rakes in, as the redheaded, freckled little brother of "serious cinema" that isn't taken seriously.Secondly, and as a sort of second wallop of a one-two punch of disadvantages, some of Pixar's movies (the pair of Nemo movies, "Up") have set the bar of audience expectation so impossibly high that other animated movies, artificially forced to compete within a single, "animated feature" global genre, suffer at the hands of reviewers promulgating the single-genre colloquial perspective."Ratchet and Clank" simply doesn't fall into the same category of animated film as, for example, "Up". It's an animated film adaptation of a popular series of video games, and is largely targeted at the same audience as that of the games and perhaps adults nostalgic for those games. It doesn't pretend to explore sophisticated themes of death, loneliness, coping with mental challenges and so on. As such, it should be reviewed and rated relative to its own class and the type of movie it tries to be.As mentioned previously, "Ratchet and Clank" is a very good movie. The nature of its video game origins does naturally limit the characters and plot lines available for the movie to explore. Character definitions were established years ago by the video games. The movie cannot depart significantly from those definitions or the knowledgeable fans of the games will balk and object. At the same time, the movie has to subtly establish the character's personalities within the movie or people unfamiliar with the games will be confused. It's a difficult balancing act when you think about it, and the movie pulls it off pretty well.The animation is a very high quality, facial animation is expressive and very accurately synchronized with the dialogue, and the music is satisfactorily interesting and varied.The characters are somewhat shallow and play close to their stereotypes, which you sort of have to expect from a fan-oriented kid's movie, but the adults that have to accompany the kids to the movie will get more than a few chuckles from the dialogue that is as witty as allowable.In short, the movie is exactly what you would expect it to be and a bit more because it's an exceptionally well done version of what it is.

Great movie for those who played the game as kids and a decent family film too. I'll have to emulate the first three games (I've a PS2 downstairs and bought each game as it was released though over about 13 or so years the games have either been lost or scratched up. I still miss upgrading the chicken gun in the first game to turn enemies into giant clucking chickens. Always loved the games and the movie doesn't disappoint either, though they naturally had to squeeze hours upon hours of game (I think I completed the first one twice to get the RYNO since it was the most expensive thing in the game, though with it the last boss became a 5 minute ordeal compared to a 20 minute whittle down his health) it's rather depressing that they can't make video-games like this anymore and have to make movies to immortalise them though the movie has everything from the game (even the hover taxis), just squeezed into an hour and a half. I can understand why critics mightn't like it, they may not have played the games; the movie is a great source of nostalgia for me back to a time where children's video- games were enjoyable either by children or adults and had serious replay value, it's sad to realise that game developers will now just make what they think makes money, or make 'casual games', there's very little out of the box thinking) if you're a fan of the game or have kids the movie is great (though somewhat rushed in areas since they tried to stick to the original game's narrative while giving it an almost complete (spoiler alert) ratchet was never in the galactic rangers ever in the video-games, but quark usually popped up here and there IIRC (end spoiler), a great daytime movie and even my cat hopped up on my lap to avidly watch it. It'd get a 9 out of 10 if they'd made a 2 hour movie that wasn't as rushed, but it's not a Disney-Pixar unlimited time and money animation so I'm sure the studio went as far as their budget would allow and even left it open for a sequel while not leaving things on a cliffhanger.Personally I'd like to see the three original games made into movie form, even if it's direct to DVD, old fans of the game; I can remember sharing secrets locations of golden bolts how best to get through levels and such, which, sadly nobody does anymore (hence game developers jumping to procedural generation to make things more interesting, hopefully given five years or so they'll have procedural generation designed so no play-through is the same but the whole whispering of secret areas, things to backtrack to and game-play tips will be a schoolyard thing again, I wouldn't want children of mine growing up in such an artificially sterile world) I would assume because all they need is an internet walk-through or let's play videos on YouTube.All in all, budget considered; it's an excellent adaption of video game to movie. I know I've rambled on about games, though it's a movie adaption of a of mind-blowing game, hopefully there will be more movies to come, it's just a pity that the critics gave the movie such a low score, for what it is it's worth eight stars; easily.I look forward to hooking up my PS3 controller to my PC and playing the sequels to the original (I know the original back to front), hopefully this movie will inspire game designers to turn away from total realism and think outside the box a bit more, the Jak and Daxter and Ratchet and Clank game series' made my childhood, along with games like Abe's odyssey and Exodus.