It's like the guy knew ahead of time that this movie was going to fail, so he half-assed things as much as possible while preparing his throat for how loudly and often he'd be yelling "You mysogynistic pig!" when the girls weren't around to do this for him.
Pixels was a screenplay somebody wrote at the age of nine.
This is an intentional, deliberate attack on a major part of american culture, nerd culture, and pop culture, carried out by feministing feminists that deciding to come in and feminist everything up for everyone involved. Good old feminists, showing everyone what feministing feminism is all about.
Then again, everyone here knows critics will only have the guts to call a film like this crap if everyone else is doing that. And even then, they'll treat it with kid gloves and politically-skewed glasses: "This film could have been amazing, due to the amazing talents of x director and y characters. But sometimes, all the talent in the world can't save a bad movie franchise. Especially when its old, meanie-pants fans are too blinded by nostalgia to accept new things or the strength of modern women. Times r changin, baby! I admire the strong independent women in this film for being actresses in a film despite the abuse they got from the illumimanti. Mmmmmmen like this hated the mary sue from star wars 7, too! Oh, and Ballbusters- I mean, Ghostbusters With Women: We Spit On Your Childhood Edition only sucked because they had to emulate the style of the old movies while not completely ripping them off. A daunting task none could do! Not even someone as talented as x, who we all know paid me to write this."
*With silent determination, pulls a Luffy VS Tenryuubito on your face*
No.
You cannot simply say "It's just a parody, maaan!" and use that as a shield to deflect criticism. That is not how parody works. A parody is an insightful critique of a series, not a failed attempt at imitating it! Spaceballs was an amazing parody. Epic Movie was a disgusting failure. Real comedy is far more advanced than a talentless idiot sluggishly and reluctantly taking center stage, throwing balls into the air, letting them fall around him, and glaring at the audience as he says "Ta daaaa. I'm breaking the fourth wall. And I'm a crappy juggler. I know this, I'm aware of this, and I'm making no effort at all. As you can clearly see. Don't I just suck? *throws another ball into the air. It lands on the floor, offstage* Why try, when you can instead laugh at how pathetic I am, and how pathetic you are for watching me?", regardless of what many popular fimfiction stories would have you believe. Shakespear was definitely on to something when he stated that sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.