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''Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie'' is a 2014 American independent science fiction adventure comedy film written and directed by James Rolfe. It is based on the web series of the same name, also created by Rolfe, with himself as the title role. The story centers around the then urban legend of the mass burial of millions copies of the 1982 Atari 2600 video game ''E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial'', proclaimed as the "worst video game of all time". After a longstanding refusal to address the game in his web series, the Nerd succumbs to pressure by fans to review the video game, embarking on a quest to prove that there is nothing buried there. However, the crew is pursued by federal authorities, led by the villainous General Dark Onward, who believes he is investigating Area 51 and the crash of an unidentified flying object. The film premiered July 21, 2014 at Grauman's Egyptian Theatre in Hollywood, and was released online via video-on-demand on September 2, 2014. The Blu-Ray version of the film was released on December 14, 2014 through Amazon.com, with the DVD version released on May 13, 2015. The film's budget of over came entirely from Internet crowdfunding. ==Plot== In 1983, 2 million copies of the "worst video game of all time", ''Eee Tee'' for the Atari 2600 are dumped into a landfill outside Alamagordo, New Mexico . In the present day, game executive Mandi (Sarah Glendening) of Cockburn Industries, Inc. proposes to her bosses creating an intentionally badly made sequel, "Eee Tee 2". Thanks to the massive popularity and success of the Angry Video Game Nerd, the sales of poorly made video games has increased dramatically, and a review of ''Eee Tee 2'' by the Nerd would cause his fans to buy the game and make profits for Cockburn. The Nerd (James Rolfe) and Cooper Folly (Jeremy Suarez) are working on the former's latest video game review. The Nerd has become increasingly disheartened over the years, as his fans continue to buy and play the video games he reviews and warns people to stay away from. On top of this, the Nerd is forced to promote and sell bad video games as part of his job at GameCops, and when he discovers marketing for ''Eee Tee 2,'' his fans encourage him to review ''E.T.,'' something the Nerd has stood against for years because the game is so bad that it scarred him as a child. However, after a bad nightmare in a nightmare in a nightmare and some personal thought, the Nerd decides to go to Alamagordo to ultimately debunk the conspiracy surrounding the buried cartridges. He is accompanied by Cooper and Mandi, and the trip is completely funded by Cockburn Industries. While filming their expedition, Cooper reveals that he believes in a super-being known as Death Mwauthzyx, who has the power to collapse all of the dimensions in the universe and destroy all existence. Suddenly, the legless General Dark Onward (Stephen Mendel), thinking the trio is looking for extraterrestrials, brings along Sergeant McButter (Helena Barrett) in an attempt to capture them. In the process, Onward accidentally blows up his right arm with a grenade, giving the trio enough time to escape. The Nerd, Cooper, and Mandi decide to search for the creator of ''Eee Tee'', Howard Scott Warshaw, for answers. They instead stumble across the home of Dr. Zandor (Time Winters), who tells them that "Eee Tee"'s level design is actually an exact map of Area 51. Dr. Zandor, a worker of Area 51 at the time, gave the code to Warshaw to help him meet the five-week deadline Atari set for "Eee Tee"'s completion, and also to exact revenge on the government for kidnapping and holding hostage an alien he was attempting to free. The government then ordered the burial of the cartridges, supervised by General Onward himself, while Zandor escaped with the metallic material Area 51 was researching at the time in an attempt to reassemble the alien's spaceship, replacing it with identical tin foil. Dr. Zandor manages to keep the trio safe from the government for the night, but Mandi is captured by McButter while outside of the house. The Nerd and Cooper, believing she is a double agent, do not go after her. Going back to the Alamagordo site, the Nerd and Cooper discover a large crowd of fans and the head of Cockburn Industries promoting the release of ''Eee Tee 2'' with the promise of digging out a copy of the original ''Eee Tee'' from the site itself. The Nerd tells his fans that there are no cartridges buried out there, but Howard Scott Warshaw himself appears and tells fans the opposite. Annoyed, the Nerd decides to break into Area 51. He dresses up in a cheesy alien suit & a spaceship that looks like it was put together in an hour with stuff found in a junkyard, but it works (after Cooper sends him flying off a nearby cliff, giving the illusion that the Nerd is flying, but Cooper falls off the cliff). After being captured ,the Nerd is taken for examination, but they discover their "alien" is a fake. The Nerd subdues the doctors, and has to use one for the rectal scanner as the door lock, but, after escaping, he is recaptured by General Onward. Onward attempts to force him to play ''E.T.'', but that fails, and the Nerd tells him that when Zandor escaped with the spaceship metal, he replaced it with the identical tin foil. Onward launches a missile at Mount Fuji, the basis for the Atari logo design, and while angrily leaving the room, gets his left arm cut off in the door, thus leaving him with no arms. During the launch countdown, an alien resembling the one in ''E.T.'' grabs the Nerd and pulls him to safety. The destruction of Mount Fuji releases Death Mwauthzyx, who was real all along and trapped inside the mountain. Meanwhile, Mandi manages to keep McButter away from the Nerd and Cooper's location altogether, eventually leading them to a confrontation on the Eiffel Tower in Las Vegas. The Nerd and Alien escape in a fighter jet similar to one in the NES ''Top Gun'' video game, while Alien reveals Death Mwauthzyx's can collapse the dimensions and destroy all existence by completely turning the satellite dish on his head. Like Top Gun,the Nerd can't land the plane, and he and Alien just bail. Cooper is captured by Death Mwauthzyx and brought to Las Vegas, where Mandi manages to knock McButter off the Eiffel Tower to her death. Mandi is also captured by Death Mwauthzyx. The Nerd and Alien crash-land at the Alamagordo site, where a captured Dr. Zandor shouts to them that he hid Alien's spaceship metal inside the millions of ''E.T.'' game cartridges. Alien summons every single copy of the game to form the spaceship. The Nerd and Alien leave for Las Vegas to stop Death Mwauthzyx, and the armless General Onward is killed when attempting to stop them. In Las Vegas, the Nerd and Alien save Cooper and Mandi. The Nerd then fires a laser at Death Mwauthzyx's satellite dish, causing Death Mwauthzys to fly away and disappear forever. They return to the Alamagordo site and reunite with Dr. Zandor and the Nerd's fans. Cooper and Mandi share a kiss, while the Nerd decides to finally review ''E.T.'' for his fans before Alien leaves for good though he reviews the sequel first declaring that while it is worse, true wretchedness was too unique to duplicate and that the original stood the test of infamy. Everyone, including Mandi, throw the copies of the sequel into the landfill and the Nerd finally reviews E.T. During the credits, the Nerd declares that ''E.T.'' is not the worst game that he has ever played, calling it cryptic and challenging as well as addicting, although it is still a bad game. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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