The Wizard (1989)
7/10
Being a kid when this came out is the only way to enjoy this film
11 July 2005
Warning: Spoilers
Now ill be the first to say that this film is not the best, but when i was young and had bugged my parent to get me a Nintendo i thought it was just great, the Nintendo by todays standards is awful its slow graphics are terrible and the games are dated but god damn it i would love to go back to that time and play them all again i played them so much i could finish most of the games i had all except snake rattle and roll i could never do that last level. But back to the point when the wizard came out i couldn't wait to watch it and to be fair it was what it seemed to be a 90 min advertisement for Nintendo with the story if your good at video games people wont think your slow, well it had me convinced and so fred savage and co went on there little journey and played video games along the way they meet the little git who is the nemesis with his gay ass power glove i never had one but i heard from a reliable resource that they were pants what was good however was the joystick they used in the final game which was the game that we all wanted to play super mario 3 which at the time was the most amazing game around on an 8 bit system

and to make it even more fun they pointed out little tricks you could do in the game before it even came out the magic flute they got in the castle, interesting though that no one had played this game but they knew what everything did but it was a kids film and i was a kid who was captivated by this,

but looking back the film was awful but i can still sit through it and i just cant bear to get rid of it its still got a hold on me in a weird nostalgic way i guess we cant let go of some parts of our childhood
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