{"id":89877,"date":"2016-04-29T07:26:58","date_gmt":"2016-04-29T05:26:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=89877"},"modified":"2016-04-29T07:26:32","modified_gmt":"2016-04-29T05:26:32","slug":"ratchet-clank-movie-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/89877-ratchet-clank-movie-review","title":{"rendered":"Ratchet &#038; Clank movie review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Video game to movie adaptations don\u2019t have the best track-record, but if there was any game that would translate excellently to a big-screen adventure, Ratchet &amp; Clank would be it.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, and frankly quite bizarrely, Ratchet &amp; Clank\u2019s witty humour, colourful characters, and hilarious dialogue seen in the games was somehow left behind when the franchise made the leap to the big screen.<\/p>\n<p>Even stranger is the quality of the animation, which seems to be inferior to that of the game\u2019s cutscenes. It really is a strange result, given that the series seemed to have everything to make a great movie.<\/p>\n<p>For the uninitiated, Ratchet and Clank is based on the popular PlayStation video game franchise, and tells how the story&#8217;s two unlikely heroes met.<\/p>\n<p>Ratchet (voiced by James Arnold Taylor) and Clank (David Kaye) discover a deadly weapon that would help the evil alien Chairmen Drek (Paul Giamatti) destroy every planet in the Solana Galaxy.<\/p>\n<p>They join forces with the Galactic Rangers to stop Drek and try to save the galaxy before it&#8217;s too late.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bvWRilQ9lnI?rel=0\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The film gets off to a good start and manages to capture the feel and heart of the game, but misses the mark on the tongue-in-cheek humour that adult gamers fell in love with, instead opting to cater for a much younger audience, where the game\u2019s trademark ingenious dialogue is replaced with slapstick comedy.<\/p>\n<p>To its credit, the voice actors themselves are great &#8211; each converting and selling the the characters they\u2019re playing with full commitment &#8211; it\u2019s just that the script isn\u2019t very good.<\/p>\n<p>Lines are dull, timing is awkward, and no story ideas explored in the games are fully realised.<\/p>\n<p>As a fan of the game franchise with a strong allure to the characters and world, it was difficult to enjoy Ratchet &amp; Clank\u2019s big-screen debut, even with its charming moments, self-referential jokes and familiarity.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Article\u00a0originally published on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.menstuff.co.za\/movies\/is-the-ratchet-clank-movie-any-good\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"canonical\">MenStuff.co.za<\/a>.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to AMD\u2019s powerful 32GB FirePro GPU will dominate VR production\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/89607-amds-powerful-32gb-firepro-gpu-will-dominate-vr-production.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD\u2019s powerful 32GB FirePro GPU will dominate VR production<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Upcoming Mass Effect\u2019s gameplay leaked\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/videos\/88069-upcoming-mass-effects-gameplay-leaked.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Upcoming Mass Effect\u2019s gameplay leaked<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Greatest games of the 80s\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/88073-greatest-games-of-the-80s.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Greatest games of the 80s<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We review Ratchet &#038; Clank&#8217;s jump to the big-screen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":196,"featured_media":89879,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9707,10318,5000,279,6402,9706,4997,18137],"class_list":["post-89877","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-reviews","tag-clank","tag-film","tag-insomniac","tag-movie","tag-movies","tag-ratchet","tag-ratchet-clank","tag-video-game-adaptations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89877","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89877"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89877\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":89945,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89877\/revisions\/89945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89877"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89877"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89877"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}