The Gist
Years ago, Sam Flynn’s father told him about the Grid. A digital frontier, a world of circuits and clusters of information in a computer. Kevin Flynn, creator of the popular video game, Tron, disappeared a few nights after he had perfected his world in the Grid. Sam waited for his father for years, but he was never found, and life had to go on. With his dad gone, Sam didn’t want to take over his father’s company. He let someone else take over the company for him, changing it in ways his father would never have allowed. But every year, Sam manages to pull a fantastic prank on the company, a sort of payback for how they’d distorted what his father had created. After Sam’s latest prank goes too far and they arrest him Sam goes back to his apartment discouraged. Then Sam’s Dad’s best friend Alan comes to tell Sam that he was paged. Paged from Sam’s Dad’s old office. No one had been in there for years, and suddenly, Alan was paged. Sam doesn’t even want to hear it. Despite telling Alan that his father is either dead or hiding out somewhere tropical, Sam’s curiosity gets the better of him. And he visits his dad’s old arcade and takes a look around his office. While there, he finds a secret room – that was probably meant for his father alone – and tries to figure out what his dad had been doing on his computers right before he disappeared. Suddenly Sam is sucked into the world of Tron. He’s throw into disc games against programs. When the programs discover that he’s not like them – a user instead of program – he’s taken to the leader of tron, leader of the games. There he discovers his dad hadn’t died. Hadn’t abandoned him. But had been stuck in the games for all those years. Sam sets out to find him and get both of them out.
What We Think
Years ago, Sam Flynn’s father told him about the Grid. A digital frontier, a world of circuits and clusters of information in a computer. Kevin Flynn, creator of the popular video game, Tron, disappeared a few nights after he had perfected his world in the Grid. Sam waited for his father for years, but he was never found, and life had to go on. With his dad gone, Sam didn’t want to take over his father’s company. He let someone else take over the company for him, changing it in ways his father would never have allowed. But every year, Sam manages to pull a fantastic prank on the company, a sort of payback for how they’d distorted what his father had created. After Sam’s latest prank goes too far and they arrest him Sam goes back to his apartment discouraged. Then Sam’s Dad’s best friend Alan comes to tell Sam that he was paged. Paged from Sam’s Dad’s old office. No one had been in there for years, and suddenly, Alan was paged. Sam doesn’t even want to hear it. Despite telling Alan that his father is either dead or hiding out somewhere tropical, Sam’s curiosity gets the better of him. And he visits his dad’s old arcade and takes a look around his office. While there, he finds a secret room – that was probably meant for his father alone – and tries to figure out what his dad had been doing on his computers right before he disappeared. Suddenly Sam is sucked into the world of Tron. He’s throw into disc games against programs. When the programs discover that he’s not like them – a user instead of program – he’s taken to the leader of tron, leader of the games. There he discovers his dad hadn’t died. Hadn’t abandoned him. But had been stuck in the games for all those years. Sam sets out to find him and get both of them out.
What We Think
Reviewed by Dream Catcher
Run Time: 125 Minutes
Rating: PG
Rating: PG
Ugh that was the worst gist ever. Sorry. The movie was actually a LOT better than that. Maybe I’ll do a better job of convincing you here. SO. I hadn’t heard many good things about this movie. And then there was rotten tomatoes which gave it 45%. Not good. But I still wanted to see it. However, that was mostly due to the fact that I thought the music in the trailer was the best thing since sliced bread. Very epic. After I saw the movie I actually bought the CD on itunes - but that’s another review for another time (great CD, though). Anyways. The movie was much better than I expected. The whole movie I kept waiting for it to get bad. But it never did. It was just a good movie. The plot – which I had the lowest expectations for – was actually pretty good. Poor kid searching for his lost father, finding himself in this amazing digital world with disc games and light up suits and all that. Pretty cool. What I liked most about it was the fact that I was never bored. Something was always happening. And the end wasn’t sappy. I was waiting for this emotional, I-love-you-just-the-way-you-are-son ending. Nope. Just a good ending. Cute but not too cute. Sad but not too sad. So the plot and the ending were really good. I might as well mention something about the script. It goes along with the plot, basically. But I say a few words. I thought the script was actually really good too. Except for this one REALLY CLICHE line. It romancey and way overused. Oh, well. Every movie has its pros and cons. I guess for this movie the cons included corny pick-up lines. It wasn’t that bad…and other than that I thought the script was really believable. So those aspects of the movie were really good.
I’m going to group characters and acting together. Because the way the actor acts makes the character who they are. Right? Yeah, I’m going to go with that. Okay. So first and foremost. Sam Flynn a.k.a. Garrett Hedlund. He played his part really well, thought. An average guy causing trouble and pretending he doesn’t care. He was a great character and Garrett Hedlund did a good job as Sam. I don’t know what other movies he’s been in, but I’d see another if it came out. One of the only girls in the movie was played by Olivia Wilde. Recognize her fromHouse? I did, and I didn’t expect her to be as good as she was. It’s one thing to be a basically emotionless doctor on a TV drama. Movie-acting is different. But I thought she was great. She played the smart, if a little naive, Quorra – apprentice to Kevin Flynn in the world of Tron. Her character was pretty quirky at times because she was completely oblivious to the outside world. And the way Olivia Wilde played the part made her character very likable. I would see another one of her movies, certainly. Kevin Flynn was played by Jeff Bridges. He played the loving, care-free father role well, and when his character changed to become almost wiser and beaten-down he changed, too. Overall I thought the cast was great, the acting was really great, and the characters were funny, likable and - when the opportunity arose – heart-felt. Awesome.
Special effects. Basically the whole thing was a huge, amazing special effect. The whole tron world was amazing. Lit up and futuristic-like. The one complaint I have about the special effects was C.L.U. He was a special effect and it was kind of obvious. It wasn’t that bad, so it’s not a huge complaint. But I could see it. One of my friends even found it distracting. Eye of the beholder, I suppose. Another thing: costumes. They’re so cool and futuristic-looking. And the amazing part of them is that they have actual lights in them. They light up and that’s not a special effect. They actually glow and light up on their own! I thought that was really awesome.
Lastly: movie poster. I can’t really say anything about the name, because it’s not like they could change that (having it be legacy to the older tron movie). And I like the title anyways. The poster. I thought it was really good! Sam Flynn holding a disc in the air next to Quorra. It looks dramatic and just plain cool. Once you see the movie you’ll understand it more, too.
So overall, I thought it was a movie definitely worth seeing! I don’t understand why it got such bad reviews, but, hey, what can you do? If you haven’t seen it in theaters, I would recommend you watch it as soon as it comes out on DVD (because I think currently it’s in that awkward stage between theater and DVD). The music was epic, the story was interesting, the acting was great. What’s not to like? Great action and good characters. It certainly wasn’t the best movie I’ve ever seen, but it deserves better reviews than it got! See it!
Real Teen Rating~ A- : See it with some friends!
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