Name: Pac-Man: The Movie
Genre: Short, Action, Adventure
Duration: 5 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Dorothy Brignac, Tyler Russell, Max Salberg

Watch as ghosts must brave a maze and face the terror!

I happened across this short and have to say I found it quite humorous if a bit strange. The plot is simple, ghosts are hiding in a room grieving their lost companion who was apparently eaten. Well they decide to try and escape this place and they enter the maze. They start getting picked off by the strange yellow chomping monster. Well there seems to be a way to stop this beast, but will any of them get the chance? Yes, it is rather cheap looking as the ghost costumes look like colored garbage bags, but Pac-man looked all right and I loved the scene that showed the blood after he ate the pink ghost. I also enjoyed the way they injected the actual game into their little movie too. Some of the arguing got a bit annoying as it was almost as bad as "The Blair Witch Project" at times, but overall it entertained and it was over fairly quickly so I can not really complain about it being to long. The movie kind of reminds me of a shorter version of the Canadian film "The Cube", only the infighting is not nearly as intolerable and it wraps up quickly as I thought that film should have been a short rather than a full length picture.

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