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The Wizard
The movie follows a boy and his emotionally disturbed younger brother as they run away from home and journey to the West Coast with the help of a girl they meet to compete in the ultimate video game championship.
9 December 1941, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 September 1949, Gadsden, Alabama, USA
8 January 1976, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
January 01, 2000
Granted, Nintendo has cornered the video game market, and all the kids in the audience seemed to know each game as it appeared on the screen, but why pander to that Saturday morning commercial television sensibility?
March 12, 2010
The runaways' actions provide anything but responsible models for the children who make up the film's target audience, and the likable cast flails against the rampant idiocy and gross commercialism.
July 30, 2015
An ad for video games that makes video games look like a peyote hallucination.
March 04, 2003
This movie sucks so bad, I didn't even like it in the 80s.
August 31, 2006
a unique exercise in crappy '80s moviemaking %u2013 which has now become a unique exercise in crappy '80s nostalgia.
September 15, 2006
I love "The Wizard. It's so bad.
January 01, 2000
Hollywood hucksters, zap them, have borrowed from Japanese game-pushers in this shameless attempt to sucker America's children.
July 04, 2005
Lots of fun
January 01, 2000
It was only after the three kids arrived safely at the championships that I began to question the ethics of the film, which is, among other things, a thinly disguised commercial for Nintendo video games and the Universal studio tour.
June 21, 2013
A solid and entertaining road film that is never cloying or abundantly sweet.
May 20, 2003
Video-addicted kids may well find this exciting, but for anyone old enough to stay out later than 9 P.M. it's a distinct bore.
July 14, 2007
one of the best movies about the nintendo entertainment system...