Hollywood whistleblower Rose McGowan recently revealed that one of her most demeaning moments involved being told to dress sexy to audition for a movie starring an actor who rhymed with “Madam Panhandler”. Pixels provides further clues to who that could possibly be: the chronically misused Michelle Monaghan endures flirty negging from the film’s lead, while the multi-talented Jane Krakowski is required merely to hang with a rictus grin on the arm of the lamentable Kevin James. As for Serena Williams’s cameo… a bad, a very bad idea. This dreary romp is about a bunch of klutzes called on to fight alien invaders fixated on 80s arcade games like Donkey Kong and Pac-Man. Saving graces, almost: an insanely ripe performance by Peter Dinklage and a surreal moment involving Hall & Oates. You take what consolation you can.
