Power gloves, Wizards and Nostalgia
"I love the Power Glove.
It's so bad."
After years of waiting, it looks like The Wizard is coming to DVD; finally, a new generation of kids will get a chance to experience the Power Glove.
The Wizard
Whilst I have no rose-tinted disillusions about the film, I have to confess that I'm looking forward to it's release. Yes, it has it's fair share of cheesy moments, yes it was a Nintendo promotional flick1 and yes it has a load of VG factual errors. And you can't help but squirm at some of the lines and moments in the film. And it's unashamedly American.
But for a videogames obsessed kid who was growing up, the film managed to hit all the right nerves. As goofy as they were, you empathised with the characters; the simple story was believable enough2 that you were able to be carried along in the journey. As silly as the whole thing is, by the end, you don't really care.
It's the sort of film that can only be watched as a young kid; I'm pretty certain that were you to be any age older than twelve, you'd probably find it ridiculous to the point of being unbearable.
"I give you…Super…Mario Brothers…Threeeeee!!!"
There's no doubt that I'd be setting myself up for disappointment if I were to watch it again… but I still can't resist adding it to the bottom of my Amazon rental list.
- That's understating things; the decision to debut SMB3 in this movie was a stroke of Genius by Big N [back]
- Bearing in mind that I was probably about eight years old at the time:) [back]
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