The Internet has it’s share of good things going for it: there’s email, funny videos, movies and even movie reviewer writers.   There are bad things on the flipped side, too: people having naked sex, certain people in certain movie forums are jerks (Orchid4Jay, WlvrneBA), men my dad’s age who go on Facebook and pretend to be someone younger and then try to get together with their new Facebook friends who quickly find out that, ‘Ew, this guy is totally old. Gross.’ In this day and age when everyone that goes online knows about the Internet, someone was abound to make a movie about it.

Garret Hedlund decided to be that person and made the movie Tron Legacy. I see a lot of movies and I have to say that this is, like, the most original movie I have ever seen next to Transformers.

Actor Garret Hedlund also makes dolls of himself and sells them.

Garret stars as Sam, a multi-multi-billionaire who parachutes into work and rides motorcycles. When Sam was a little boy, his dad abandoned him and no one knew where he went. Thanks to an old guy in a raincoat that still uses a beeper (He totally did! ha ha!!), Sam finds an old video game arcade that his dad owned, finds a secret office and begins to check his email on his dad’s computer. Unfortunately for him, his dad set up some weird security robot that vacuums Sam into the Internet.

Uhh…whoa!

Now, Sam is in a world that is full of people. But these people aren’t regular people. These people are basically websites. Cool, right? Every time someone starts a website, a person is born in the Internet world. Sweet!

No caption. She's just really pretty.

Sam is mistaken for a famous athlete and has to play a bunch of weird sports by throwing these electronic frisbees that everyone just happens to be carrying all the time in their backpacks, but the Frisbees can turn off these glass force fields that you’re standing on and you can fall and whatever. That game made no sense. Anyway, so then, Sam finds a website that is a motorcycle and drives it around with some of his new friends (on the information superhighway, maybe?), but they get mad at him for some reason and, whatever, he gets scared, but then a website car arrives and saves him.

Olivia Wilde plays Kora (like Kona with an R), a girl website that is really pretty and totally has a thing for Sam. Since no one in the movie says what websites they are, you have to just guess, but I’m pretty sure Kora was supposed to be the Suicide Girls website. Oh, and guess who she’s been sharing an apartment with…Sam’s deadbeat dad! *SPOILER ALERT*

With these suits, the people in Tron will never get hit by a car at night.

Sam’s dad is gross and bearded and lives in a white room and wears all white clothes (hello, stains). I think this was Garret’s way of saying, ‘Hey, even some people with schizophrenia problems can create websites, but be careful because they might put weird pictures of themselves on it and no one wants to see that’ and I think that is a great message. Go Garret!

Kora realizes that a younger boyfriend is way better than one that needs special old people pillows to sit down.

Oh and because his dad has more than one website (grossbeardeddad.com and deadbeatschizodad.com?), he has another him walking around but who is younger and better looking because he shaved and is younger. This was really cool because it gave the actor playing Sam’s dad a chance to shave his gross beard off and play a cooler character.

FYI-The old dad is the same guy that was in True Grit and he had a gross beard in that, too. OMG, I’ll buy you a razor!

After Sam goes to a nightclub owned by a vampire, the movie gets a little confusing and was a little hard to follow. Sam’s dad and the other Sam’s dad get into a fight and hate each other because one of them is living with a hot website and the other one’s only friend is a bald website (I think this was supposed to be a website where you can donate money to cancer research, so that’s another cool message because everyone should donate). Then stuff happens with a flying sailboat, then Sam and Kora stand in the middle of a gigantic connection cable that I think is supposed to represent God and get downloaded back into the real world. *SPOILER ALERT*

"Don't mention how pale I am. I know! I'm a vampire, it's hard to avoid. Now let's dance!"

Totally original idea, right? I know!

As a movie reviewer writer, I don’t believe any movie is perfect and this one was no acception. First of all, we never find out what a Tron is. Was it because everyone is the size of a neutron in the Internet? Did it stand for Touchscreen Routers are Online Nyahhh? If you rearrange the letters it spells ‘torn’, so maybe it was that Sam was torn between his two dads or that the Internet was somehow torn apart. Who knows?

Also, it wasn’t bad, but it was just weird: Why did a character from the GI Joe movie make an appearance in the Internet world? That was weird.

GI Joe guy is in the movie...for some reason.

Overall, I’d say this movie was pretty amazing to watch, even if it didn’t always make sense. Then again, I am so not a techi person, so I’m sure I missed a lot of computer lingo in the movie.

I think this movie would make a great trilogy of films because the Internet is always relevant. But what will happen in the next trilogy? Will Sam and Kora have to go back to the Internet world to stop a virus that is killing websites? Will the two Sam’s dads become jerks and slow down everyone’s modems so they can’t download stuff? All we can do is wait and see.

I give Tron Legacy 4 out 5 winks.

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