The film catalogues the worst set of performances seen in a while, particularly Dinklage's accent and Gad's pubescent antics.

It's a neat idea for a parody disaster film but it's wholly lost in this melange of underwritten characters and awful dialogue.

There are scenes in the surreally lazy, occasionally funny Pixels in which Sandler's face slips into the exact same weary, disgruntled expression he wears in Funny People.

There's more effort here than in most Adam Sandler movies but Pixels' half-baked 80s video-game-cum-invasion-movie still mostly reeks of jack-assery.