Movie Review: Death of Nintendo

Set in 90’s suburban Manila, the story takes us into the colorful pop-culture world of four 13-year old friends, back in the days when videogames were still a novelty. Mimaw and her friends Paolo, Kachi, and Gilligan go on a journey of self-discovery together as they play games and wrestle with new dilemmas – puppy love, circumcision and other horror stories. 

Death of Nintendo is a bitter sweet memory lane coming of age films that dealt with decent issues and scenario like absence of father, bullying, puppy love, school tribes, local legends and young friendship. If you were a child during 90's you will be definitely relate on this film with a lot of reference use in this film to anchor the story and journey of the four leads of the film. It is a cute film with endearing performance by the cast Noel Comia Jr., John Vincent Servilla, Cayden Williams, Kim Oquendo and Elijah Alejo. Even the supporting cast Agot Isidro, Nikki Valdez, Miles Kanapi are delightful to watch on this film with their notable characters. Death of Nintendo is something that I did not expect from Raya Martin based on his previous works but this film is lovely and capture the right emotions, vision and message it would like to tell to the audience.

 

 

My Verdict: 4/5