A visually-stunning short, but it would have been absolutely fantastic had it been longer and actually contained a proper narrative.

8-bit awesomeness and one of the best disaster (short) movies out there.

Damn, this was fun to watch. It brings back all sorts of memories. Too bad my old 8-bit console is long gone...

A nice bit of pandering to nerd culture, but let's not pretend this short is anything more, mkay? Most of the effects are pretty simple and straightforward, and I have seen more colorful, exciting, and imaginative animations in freaking Flash, let alone done by high-end professionals. Still, it's an acceptable way to kill two and a half minutes.

An amusing distraction with bright colors and fun references to classic video games, but it's really just a couple of minutes of fluff. It also frontloads all the best bits so it kinda feels like it peters out to a not very interesting ending.

Pretty goddamn amazing.

Astonishing!!!

Well it was pretty at least...

That was pretty cool, and sweet to look at. Nothing overly significant though.

Impressive and imaginative. Could have been longer and included more games though.

Hard to compare this to something, like oh, say, Apocalypse Now or the Shining considering it's 210 seconds long and stars...er...no one. Was visually impressive, but if the invaders (and I, for one, welcome our pixelated overlords) had that bomb from the start, what's the point of sending in the other troops?

Clever short movie, it is more of a show-off of technical prowess but by tickling my childhood SNES memories it gripped me.

More like voxels than pixels, but well done.

Fun, but a bit generic. How the hell are they making a feature out of this?

It's so perfectly done, so credible and so beautiful, I really don't mind it doesn't tell anything at all. Nostalgia and good technic do everything.

The presentation is too flashy and immediate and small in scope, so it looks like a TV commercial. The effects are seamless and often spectacular but I wish any effort at all had been expended toward the sound effects blending into their surroundings in the same way. And there's no getting past just how sick I am of short films about video games coming to life (have our imaginations been this stunted by them?), though this is easily the best example of it I've seen.

It was very pretty but I was expecting a little more creativity or humour. For example, where were the thousands of screaming pedestrians?

So friggin awesome

Absolutely incredible to look at, and entertaining as all hell.

Hail to the 8-bit generation! Yeah,this is damn awesome and very creative.

Cute.

I don't usually go for these CGI-inflicted animated shorts, but this one was bound to be a bit of a guilty pleasure for me and anyone who played video games in the 1980's.

A lot of the setpieces are very clever, but it's really all about the visuals here. The blend between reality and the blocky sheen of the pixels is masterfully done, and it's only a shame the piece is so short.

Wish it were longer, otherwise, brilliant short.

great idea!

Don't like the end of that one but idea is great. Wish it were shorter...

Incredibly creative and visually impressive.

An entertaining little short. It's missing Huey Lewis and the News singing "Hip to be Square", but that's probably a good thing...

Very imaginative. Should of been longer and needed something extra.

I didn't know this was on Criticker. It's really entertaining, as others have said.

8-bits of coolness.

A borderline-inexplicable short in which 8-bit game characters announce themselves the world's deadliest invasive species, Pixels excels in its portrait of frequently cubic destruction. If there's nothing especially meaningful to grab onto, Patrick Jean's film at least makes for an interestingly innovative little viewing experience.

I can't believe what I just saw - Fantastic short.

All smiles for 3 minutes...

cute..

Cleverly done short with computer generated imagery.

Pure nostalgia