Starring Billy Mitchell, Walter Day, Steve Wiebe Directed by Seth Gordon U.S. Box Office: $674,925 Rated PG-13 Release Date 2007

This film is about Billy Mitchell, the greatest Donkey Kong player ever. He holds the world record in the old school arcade game since 1982, with a score over 800,000. His crown has gone basically unchallenged for over 20 years until Steve Wiebe, a middle school science teachers, buys a Donkey Kong game and attempts to beat the high score in his garage.

Billy is a mullet toting hot sauce mogul in Florida that is ridiculously arrogant about his top gaming skills. This guy thinks is he SO cool and apparently a bunch of other video game nerds think so too. They interview some of these geeks and they just gush all about him. He even has a couple of cronies that try and keep other gamers down by doing his bidding. It’s quite unbelievable to watch. They’re just so clueless about the fact that it’s just a video game! At first, I was in awe that these people were actually serious about this, which just made it all the more hilarious. It’s like a cross between Trekkies and American Movie.

Then there’s Steve, just a regular everyday guy who just decided one day to beat the top score. He has his challenges along the way, most due to Billy’s cronies I mentioned earlier, but he flies all over the country to play live and try to beat the score.

I just had a friend say to me that that the people in the movie were like the characters in a Christopher Guest movie (Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show) only real. And you know, she was right.

The movie has had some cult success since it’s been on DVD and we here at Movie Popcorn wrote a DVD review of the movie months back so some may have already heard of this one but if you haven’t, it’s one you must see.

Film Grade: A+