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An overall decent quality production brought down to the bottom by an awful lazy writing full of commonplace scenarios and over-the-top stereotypical characters.

An entirely predictable story from start to finish - a team of misfits facing adversity - it could have been a fun easy watch if not for its harmful depiction of unidimensional over-the-top diversity stereotypes that go from gross to worse, exaggerated acting, as well as its extremely puerile humor based on genital and bodily function jokes; all of which this movie pretends to sell as actual positive representation.

Ironically, Ruby Rose is far from being the one to blame and was actually, along with Taylor Zakhar Perez, one of the actors whose work was rather entertaining within the severe writing limitations of the script.

All in all a total waste of time and a disservice to each and every community in their checklist.

So 10 minutes in they are talking about Lara Croft and how the industry sexualized her to sell games... then they have a girl as the lead with very large tracks of land wearing a tank top most of the time... If you're trying to rise above it or help others to do so, then why do you dive right down to the bottom of it, without ever coming close to getting to the bottom of anything... Though the big girl telling the dude bro .... you just don't see many pegging jokes.... Let's just say I wouldn't make a football movie without knowing even a little bit about the game of soccer. They made a really bad video game movie, and a worse movie about equality.

There are so many faults in this movie it is hard to find a place to start. Firstly the acting, characters, directing, and writing isn't good. Every scene in the movie had so many cringeworthy lines in it and all the characters are either hyperbolized stereotypes or just ultra diverse pandering. Then there is the competitive gaming aspect of it. The way that the team starts just isn't real. Collegiate teams have lots of scouting and tryouts to join the team. Also there are very few women who play games let alone play enough to climb the ladder to pro. You actually need to be good at the game and high ranked. You don't just decide you want to start a team and recruit random people and hold interviews. Also you don't compete in the "collegiate esport league". Also you don't just "train" by drinking and playing nintendo 64 games. Then there is the game part. This is a real game, but as the movie goes on the game gets twisted and is just used as plot armor and the scenes with the chicken burning everything down and the blood character just morphing around are just not real. Overall. The movie is clearly just a stunt made by people who know nothing about the gaming scene. If they wanted to make a movie about diversity or sexism they should have just done that instead of masquerading their intentions with this movie.

Just watched this and it was just awful. A lot of amateur actors, and a clinchen story. Save yourself the time and watch something else. This was just another woke-crap movie.

3/10 - I will admit there were a few laughs courtesy of Paris Berelc and Hari Nef in between the constant cringe and near constant attempts to ripoff Pitch Perfect, but my biggest question is how did they manage to get so many big names for this and why these actors haven't fired their agents already.