Cleveronix A different way of telling a story

Tymon Sutton The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

Geraldine The story, direction, characters, and writing/dialogue is akin to taking a tranquilizer shot to the neck, but everything else was so well done.

Darin One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Oliver Thatcher Watson As a life long fan of the Ratchet And Clank video game series, this film disappointed me drastically. The fact that they tried to recreate the first games story while changing a lot of it was just a terrible idea. A lot of the things that made the first games story so great was missing and got straight up changed. Not only that, but this film is a lot more kiddish than the games. This film just ruins the whole feel of Ratchet and Clank and went a completely different route that made it kiddish and pretty much ruined instead of actually focusing on the crucial parts of the original games story. This film cut me deep as it took the story from the original game and ruined it. And because of that, I can't recommend this to anyone. And for those who love/loved Ratchet and Clank like me, it is suggested to stay away from it completely, as it will probably break the hearts of fans because of the ruined story and kiddish premise.

TxMike My wife and I watched this at home on DVD from our public library.I gather that the characters in this movie are taken from a video game. I don't play video games, I was not familiar with them before seeing this movie. But it seemed like a good diversion. It was either this or watch the 2016 Vice Presidential debate, so this won easily.All animation, this takes place in a different galaxy where none of the life resembles humans. Ratchet is a small alien to this particular planet and he longs to become a member of the team of Galactic Rangers that protect the Solana galaxy. They are recruiting but he is rejected. Along comes a spaceship crash, Ratchet rushes to the site and finds a small robot he names Clank. They work well as a team and get accepted to the rangers.The big villain is Chairman Drek who wants to destroy every planet in the Solana Galaxy then take remnants to reassemble a planet he wants. The humor and the action are clearly aimed at the younger viewers, much of it seemed overly silly to me. Still it is a passably interesting animated movie with a very good surround sound track with deep bass at appropriate times.

westsideschl Best suited to an audience over the age of around 15 through adult because of the subtle humor and parodies of traditional animated movies as well as traditional films, plots & characters; best appreciated by an older audience. Animation, modeling, layout, effects, lighting were good (not quite up to the high standards of "The Jungle Book", but far better than most. Character creation contained some parodies (spoofing) and were spot on. Voicing was quite good despite using some name actors which often are not convincing in animation voicing. Story line was creative (not the usual formula dumbed down rewrite). An interesting Canadian, US, and China collaboration.

S. Soma Simply put, within the intrinsic limitations of its scope, "Ratchet and Clank" is a very good movie.Reviewing and rating animated movies, as opposed to the more typical live-action movies, is a bit problematic for two reasons.Firstly, live-action movies have the advantage that they break down into a collection of individual genres and, as somewhat of a general rule, movies are usually evaluated from within the context of their own genre. So "Das Boot", "Operation Petticoat", and "The Hunt for Red October", while they may all be movies about submarines, they're such different movies from different genres that they don't lend themselves to being compared with each other or rated relative to each other. And so they aren't. Imagine if you had to compare and contrast "Alien" and "Schindler's List". You might be able to make a reasonable comparison on some individual aspects of these movies, such as Best Actor or some other technical facet, but I can't imagine how you'd successfully review these movies side-by-side.Animated movies, on the other hand, even at this late date, are all simply lumped together in one giant basket, "animated feature". My best guess is that this is an artefact of the history of animated movies: early on in the evolution of movies, the only kinds of animated movies that were in common circulation were, for example, Disney animated features. By definition therefore, anything animated was a "cartoon" and, as everybody knew, cartoons were exclusively aimed at kids. Obviously all animated features were part of a single genre.As animated features grew and expanded to encompass more sophisticated themes and story lines, the larger worldview of them has not evolved to keep up. The devoted fans of animation see the distinctions, but serious "cinema professionals" still see animation, for all the billions of dollars it rakes in, as the redheaded, freckled little brother of "serious cinema" that isn't taken seriously.Secondly, and as a sort of second wallop of a one-two punch of disadvantages, some of Pixar's movies (the pair of Nemo movies, "Up") have set the bar of audience expectation so impossibly high that other animated movies, artificially forced to compete within a single, "animated feature" global genre, suffer at the hands of reviewers promulgating the single-genre colloquial perspective."Ratchet and Clank" simply doesn't fall into the same category of animated film as, for example, "Up". It's an animated film adaptation of a popular series of video games, and is largely targeted at the same audience as that of the games and perhaps adults nostalgic for those games. It doesn't pretend to explore sophisticated themes of death, loneliness, coping with mental challenges and so on. As such, it should be reviewed and rated relative to its own class and the type of movie it tries to be.As mentioned previously, "Ratchet and Clank" is a very good movie. The nature of its video game origins does naturally limit the characters and plot lines available for the movie to explore. Character definitions were established years ago by the video games. The movie cannot depart significantly from those definitions or the knowledgeable fans of the games will balk and object. At the same time, the movie has to subtly establish the character's personalities within the movie or people unfamiliar with the games will be confused. It's a difficult balancing act when you think about it, and the movie pulls it off pretty well.The animation is a very high quality, facial animation is expressive and very accurately synchronized with the dialogue, and the music is satisfactorily interesting and varied.The characters are somewhat shallow and play close to their stereotypes, which you sort of have to expect from a fan-oriented kid's movie, but the adults that have to accompany the kids to the movie will get more than a few chuckles from the dialogue that is as witty as allowable.In short, the movie is exactly what you would expect it to be and a bit more because it's an exceptionally well done version of what it is.