The Wizard (1989)
Directed by Todd Holland
A boy and his brother run away from home and hitch cross-country, with help from a girl they meet, to compete in the ultimate video game championship.
6 connections found
View:
6 connections, in both directions
What critics compared The Wizard to
The story -- which draws inspiration from "Rocky," "Over the Top," "Pokémon" and Fred Savage's "The Wizard" -- is set about 15 years from now.
Feeling like if George Miller (Mad Max) had remade the 1989 kids classic, The Wizard, Turbo Kid is pure cinematic ecstasy with the filmmakers’ enthusiasm for their influences lovingly shining through in truly clever and wondrous ways.
…them, 1984's "Ghostbusters," 1985's "The Goonies," and 1989's "The Wizard"?but it falls safely into the category of being a zippy tonal cousin.
No one is asking “Free Guy” to offer a Frederick Wiseman-like portrait of programming crunch or to stretch the clear relationship between Soonnami and Blizzard to its most toxic conclusion, but there’s a big difference between suspending disbelief and depicting the video game industry as if the public hasn’t learned anything more about it since “The Wizard.”
Advertisement
To accomplish this, he needs to acquire the six Infinity Stones—representing Time, Power, Space, Mind, Soul and Reality—that, when brought together in what looks like an update of the old Nintendo Power Glove from “The Wizard,” will give him ultimate power.
His special skill is looking just like the grown-up version of the kid from The Wizard who bragged that his Power Glove was so “baaaaad.”