Ratchet & Clank (2016)

Going into the 2016 film adaptation of Ratchet & Clank I was cautiously optimistic. Video game movies have a reputation for being notoriously bad, but the decision to forego live action sounded like the perfect direction. At least as far back as 2007’s Tools of Destruction I could remember the popular appraisal that the series was like “playing a Pixar movie,” so an animated movie was the natural evolution of this idea. When the negative reviews started pouring in I still wasn’t deterred, critics panned the Pokémon movies and millions of children still love those films to this day. I’m a fan of the series, this movie couldn’t be that bad could it?