Being a fan of Telltale's adventure games and of Aardman's Wallace & Gromit shorts, I figured this game was a match made in heaven for me. I was wrong. The puzzles are mind-numbingly simple, taking up a very large portion of the game. The dialogue choices aren't very interesting, but at the very least we have Wallace and Gromit to entertain us, right? Well, Wallace's voice actor recommended someone else to do the voice for the game, and it doesn't make the cut. I love Telltale, but this series really didn't work for me.
When I popped this flick into my DVD player, I was surprised that it couldn't read it. When I attempted to view it on my PC, I was even more surprised to find an installer. Turns out this DVD contained a game element that you played in-sync with the film. I was even more surprised to find out they gave you the option to use a gamepad or keyboard in-place of a DVD remote. The movie itself started off interesting, what with Lucas being possessed and murdering someone, but quickly devolves by focusing on two other completely uninteresting and poorly written cops, taking away from Lucas' development. It really takes a turn for the worse once the Mayan's are introduced and random flashbacks that only serve as convenient exposition for whatever new superpower Lucas can do. The Simon Says part of the film was really tedious; it distracted me from seeing what was going on half the time. It got even worse when it was used for dialogue sections as it seemed only put there to force me to pay attention, as if they were afraid their awful script wouldn't catch my ear. The actors were pretty stiff, they all acted pretty alien for "everyday people". The monologues they spout out every other scene usually come out of nowhere. Not to mention that they tend to wander around for a bit staring at things they could play around with, but never did for some reason. Then they would spout a single line of dialogue and they'd be finished in the scene. They must've run low on money at one point because there appears to only be a handful of musical cues that are repeated an unholy amount of times. It just goes to show how cheap this movie really is. Due to the ridiculous nature, I think it would've turned out better as a video game.
