Level Up

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03/18/2022 Level Up has a good concept, some better-than-average acting and slightly more effort put into it than the other live-action stuff Cartoon Network produced during its ill-advised CN Real phase (it must've done something right for the TV show to be the rare live-action show on Cartoon Network to be the one you'll hear at least some people admit to liking) but the cheesy direction, corny dialogue, juvenile humour and hit-or-miss special effects show that the hatred towards CN Real wasn't as black-and-white as "I don't want real people on my TV channel that's a safe haven for cartoons". Thank goodness for a healthy dosage of Adventure Time, Regular Show and The Amazing World of Gumball with some DreamWorks Dragons on the side* to prevent me from losing hope in the Network once Billy & Mandy and Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy (that's a lot of and's) went off the air during this dark era. *No, I haven't seen enough episodes from even Riders of Berk, the first season, to warrant writing a review and what little I saw were decent and tonally consistent with How to Train Your Dragon but at the end of the day, my heart belonged to The Penguins of Madagascar. Yeah, even before Netflix obtained the rights to distribute alarmingly large amount of shows on their streaming service, I was growing indifferent to DreamWorks TV shows. See more 10/17/2018 este filme yo lo recuerdo desde cuando era niño y ahora tengo 15 años y otra vez vi este filme ahora teniendo la edad de una adolescente me dio nostalgia entre mi yo de ahora y del antes digo que la pelicula es muy buena bueno tiene sus errores pero es una pelicula muy buena y recordable See more 06/24/2016 This is just a movie that feels like a terrible e3 announcement. See more 06/20/2012 This was a good movie!! See more Chris S @RT14724417 05/06/2012 Level Up: The Movie is a live-action fantasy comedy made-for-tv movie that aired on Cartoon Network and served as a pilot to the currently airing "Level Up" TV series. The movie revolves around the MMORPG Mandark: The Conqueror of Worlds . Wyatt (Gaelan Connell) plays as Black Death and leads the clan known as Neverfail. Rounding out the team is Dante (Connor Del Rio) as Sir Bickle and Lyle (Jessie Usher) as Wizza. The three of them inadvertently tear down the firewall to allow Mandark to unleash his henchmen into the real world. Now as creatures from the game begin wreaking havoc in their town, it's up to Neverfail to save the world from Mandark's forthcoming domination whether they're up for the task or not. I love Cartoon Network. I really do. Animated films and TV shows will always be a huge part of my life. With that said, I think everybody died a little inside when Cartoon Network started showing live-action programming. But the same argument can be made for MTV never showing music videos anymore. I'm a big supporter of both "Adventure Time" and "Regular Show," but "Level Up" just seemed lame based on its promos. The concept for the movie is pretty solid; a video game villain finding a way to become reality and attempting world domination by sending a rogue's gallery of monsters doesn't sound so bad. Anything that exists in this virtual world has been given a gateway to exist in ours. It's the execution that's the problem. The movie is bogged down by really lame one-liners, corny dialogue, ripped off slogans from video games, TV shows, and movies that you love, and bad acting. The special effects jump back and forth from being semi-decent to really terrible. The lighting effects are pretty spot-on like whenever the portal is opened or whenever Lyle casts a spell. The make-up effects aren't always awful either. Sprague is probably the best looking thing in the movie. But the low budget for the movie is felt more often than not. CG characters don't look so hot in the real world and every one of their weapons looks like a toy bought off of the clearance aisle at Big Lots. The greatest part of the movie is when pop-up ads start jumping into the real world. It's pulled off pretty well and actually feels fairly original. Once you see Mandark in full make-up though and the way he's basically a cheap imitation of Megamind without being blue, it sours anything that may have once been redeemable. Level Up: The Movie is like if "Xena: Warrior Princess" or "Hercules: The Legendary Journeys" fused with The World of Warcraft episode of "South Park" and produced a PG version that was suitable for kids. The effects are mostly very bad, the humor is juvenile, and the acting makes you groan when it's at its best. But I'm also not the demographic Level Up is aimed towards. While it's probably entertaining for kids, Level Up will have adults watching the family pet lick itself as an alternate and more pleasing form of entertainment. See more 05/01/2012 Level up is one of the greatest television film my son has ever seen. See more Read all reviews

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