“Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie” is based on the hit “Angry Video Game Nerd” internet videogame review series but unfortunately the format doesn’t work… it doesn’t work at all. You see, an internet video about guy getting mad at videogames doesn’t translate so well when it’s turned into a big action adventure film.

In “Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie”, a severely aggressive retro videogame enthusiast by the name of the Angry Video Game Nerd (James Rolfe) is an internet sensation but his fans want him to review the infamous “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” (based on the film of the same name) and it ends up becoming a crazy adventure with aliens, robots and giant monsters.

The Angry Video Game Nerd may work as a silly internet star as he swears like there’s no tomorrow and gives all the geeky gaming facts but as a big film character, he isn’t exciting. The other characters are really dull. I’m sure many big fans of internet videogame videos will enjoy all the cameos, I’m sure I only vaguely recognised a few of them. The giant monster is somewhat creative in its design and it certainly has that cheesy feel that you get from the “Godzilla” films.

If you like the internet videos then you’ll get some of the references such as his “Top Gun” joke but sadly the whole thing just feels off. It doesn’t look quite fancy enough to look like anything beyond a mere independent film but at the same time, it’s too fancy to offer the same novelty that the internet videos do. There’s a certain charm about a video where a man gets incredibly frustrated playing a videogame but the charm is lost when you try to put the same man in a wannabe blockbuster. If you’ve never seen the internet videos then you won’t possibly care for this and even if you have, you may find yourself disappointed with this.