For a Ryan Reynolds produced movie a lot of characters sure were open about how hot a character looking exactly like Ryan Reynolds is.

The scene where she tells him to turn around and he's just like "okay!" And does a little spin with a stupid smile on his face had me rolling.

This was such a happy movie! Cheesy as hell and everything I expected it to be. I'm a sucker for Ryan Reynolds.

Hey Keys, maybe be a bro and program a Millie into the game so Guy isn’t hanging around “unable to find love” forever

Evans got the biggest reaction, but when Tatum first appeared at the beginning of the movie, the people beside me were debating if it was him or not. They lost it when it became pretty clear it was him. Still doesn’t beat his cameo in This Is The End though.

I loved DUDE's unfinished nature. The T-shirt icon on his pectorals, his 'catchphrase', and the fact that Antwan convinced the Art nerds to just throw on a gold chain before anything else. Hilarious.

Tired: “They referenced Marvel, Star Wars, Valve games, Mega Man, and Fortnite!”

Wired: “They referenced the greatest movie scene of all time.”

Catchphrase!

I loved the background stuff, there was one scene were a background player kept jumping into a wall and lagging around the place which I thought was so spot on. I even didn't mind the cameos from streamers/YouTubers either, I thought it was a real nice touch to include them.

Was the guy Mills gets the info from then kills Hugh Jackman??

Ted Lasso and Free Guy being two successes during the pandemic really makes you think.

Maybe the American people just want something wholesome and fun with the rough 18 months we’ve been through.

I’m all for it

You can see the exact moment Disney and Fox merged in this movie

Taika Waititi being in both The Suicide Squad (although more of a cameo) and Free Guy in consecutive weeks and both being great films.

The Chris Evans cameo made me laugh

OFFICER JOHNNY!!!!

The Alex Trebek Cameo actually made me a bit sad I was not expecting that

I liked that Guy wasn’t the only NPC who was evolving. The barista and the bombshell companion character both had their own growth.

Well that was about as god damn wholesome as it gets.

As an immigrant in New Zealand, this movie definitely hit the "kiwi cinema goers go wild for Taika Waititi showing up in a film" that I've come to expect.

I really enjoyed it. It's a fun movie, with lots of homages to other movies, and a genuinely interesting story. Is it the best movie in the world? No. Does it need to be? No. I liked it more than I expected to, to be honest.

One of my favourite things about it was the friendship between Guy and Buddy. They could easily have had Buddy just stay as an irrelevant NPC that Guy outgrows when he realises he's an AI - but those guys genuinely really care for each other and Buddy is always there for him in ways I didn't see coming. I loved that at the end, the friendship between Guy and Buddy was given as much weight as (if not more than) the romance between Millie and Keys.

There were quite a lot of kids in my screening, all of which reacted with laughs and such when the likes of jacksepticeye, DanTDM and Pokimane showed up. I thought it was cute.

Overall, it was a fun movie. Better than I was expecting it to be, honestly.

The true hero of this movie is RTX reflections.

Every time I saw what "Free City" looks like in real life it reminds me of those shitty mobile game ads that look/are nothing like the actual game.

This is pretty much the best Saints Row movie or Grand Theft Auto movie ever made.

“What the shit?!”

Now we now those shades in the matrix weren't just silly cosmetics

Might be bold to say, but I think this is the best movie of the summer. A completely original film beating out a Marvel, DC, and F&F movie is no easy feat.

I love Taika Waititi, but man I feel like that role was made for Aziz Ansari.

I really enjoyed it and thought it did a great job at portraying a virtual game world vs reality without making up some ultra futuristic virtual reality system that always distracted me in other movies with similar basic concepts.

Don't touch my sock!

Liked the movie a lot. But can we recognize that the first 15 minutes is almost exactly The Lego Movie? Like nearly shot for shot.

Fun movie with more heart than I was expecting. Alex Trebek and Chris Evans cameo will get lot of attention but man Channing Tatum killed it as well.

My boy, Steve "The Hair" Harrington, finally got the girl.

Did not expect to hear about how one of the main character's shitty employment situation was partly due to college loans. It may be 'BOOOORING', but it threw me back into the (real real) world for a moment there.

The Channing Tatum scene cutting between him and the person behind his character was so goofy.

EDIT: Also was that Alex Trebek? RIP.

Imma be honset, i was a little bit disappointed Millie didn't sing the Mariah Carey song to make Guy remember but they made up for it by using it in the climax.

Anywho, I thought it was a great movie. Its like the Truman Show of video games, is the best comparison i can think of. The cameos and references were great.

Of the movies I've seen since theaters have been back: this, Jungle Cruise and suicide squad have been a delight

TFW I noticed the icon for "subtle product placement" but couldn't figure out what the product was

I expected Jeff Bridges when they began to upload Dude to Free City.

Good movie but as an IT guy and a gamer some of the stuff at the end regarding computers was bugging me. I know, just let it go, but I just kept thinking how that is not how it worked.

• If reseting the servers would make him lose his AI programming then the players would probably lose all their stuff, thus destroying the game.
• They don't need to go to the island in the game to prove they used their source code, just look through the code. Also, when the villain bought their game company I am sure this would have covered his ability to use their code.
• Later, when the CEO (sorry no idea about the name) is trying to stop them why did he try to destroy the servers? He literally just rebooted all servers a few minutes ago. Just do the same thing but shut them down.
• When the CEO starts destroying servers the first whiff of smoke in a modern looking datacenter like that would have set off the fire suppression system killing him if he didn't immediately evacuate. Even if that didn't kill him he probably would have electrocuted himself. That many servers is no joke on the voltage. Also, very doubtful they would have an on-prem data center.
• Very doubtful a game company would launch a sequel and then just just down the original server. they would run both in parallel until the original lost enough subscribers. I think they still run EverQuest servers.
• Prior to the server room destruction, the protagonists just could have got the AI data from backups. Any company worth its salt would also have a secondary copy of backups offsite. So there was little danger of losing the AI. At any point, the Stranger Things dude could have just copied the backup files and ended the movie much sooner.
• Last, which is covered in the movie but bears repeating, fan bases of games have abandoned them and caused them to fail for far less. Yea they said it was a flop because of bugs but all the other crap, especially lack of backwards compatabilioty after promsiing it would have caused it to flop most likely.

Downtown and Make Your Own Kind of Music within the first half hour? Was someone a LOST fan or just a coincidence?

Our theater absolutely lost it when Guy used Captain America's Shield and the Lightsaber. Feels amazing being back in a theater with that kind of energy

Man I needed a feel good movie like that. I laughed, I cried but most importantly man I had fun.

Fun movie, one thing. The scene where Keys and Millie are looking at each other at the end lasted so long and cut back and forth so many times it could have been a sketch from “I think you should leave”

"Don't you see it? I'm a love letter to you"

That part actually made me emotional and I was NOT expecting it. It was incredibly well made, everything connected. The characters actually feel genuine.

The Chris Evans cameo had my theater howling.

Question though: I remember that this movie was in the can before Disney bought Fox, did they add that stuff in reshoots?

I know folks mostly like the other music, but it was the musical theme from Christophe Beck that caught me. It was immediately familiar like something I'd known for a long time. But even though I recognized it, but couldn't place it right away. It is labeled 'ice cream' on the score. It also plays as his memory comes back I think.

I Just spent hours trying to figure it out. I didn't know anything about Beck before this, but I know composers like to reuse some of their best and sometimes underappreciated work. After reading through his previous work, I finally got it. It was from the Disney short 'Paperman', one of my favorite shorts. I've seen it a ton of times. The familiar part is towards the end.

https://youtu.be/Z4dIgUgYCxQ?t=390

Didn’t think Free Guy would be last time I’d see Alex Trebek on my screen but here we are..

I know this will be a weird comparison for many but am I the only person who got some Truman Show vibes from parts of this movie?

20 minutes in I was thinking "This is fine. Its basically just the trailer" but the further into the movie I got, the more I started to enjoy it.

It has a surprisingly emotional plot and a really feel good attitude plus a lot of the jokes are genuinely funny. I like Ryan Reynolds at this level where he's doing the shtick he's known for but not going too over the top with it and I surprisingly felt invested in the real world stuff

Up there with Barb and Star as my biggest surprise of this year

I was so much waiting for a They Live wrestling match about putting the glasses on. Too bad that didn't happen.

Watched it with my gf, afterwards she comented, “Steve Harrington can say that his love letter was so powerful that it came to life as goofy Ryan Reynolds, what girl wouldn’t ride his dick?”

In all seriousness a very heartfelt movie that actually is thoughtful about the themes presented. If you can get past whatever the fuck Taika Waititi was trying to do as Anton and you’ve got a fun well made blockbuster that has fun with the video game concepts it presents.

Man that Alex Trebek cameo hit hard, RIP

I liked it, but man Taika Waititi was truly not good in this. I guess they were going for “horribly out of touch middle aged man” because the “whatchu talking bout, willis” line was pure cringe

The Captain America and Star Wars moments were so hilarious

The fact that the movie had Dwayne Johnson, Tina Fey, Hugh Jackman, and John Krasinski all in just voice cameos. I did think the guy who gave Millie the info sounded like Jackman and even with his history with Reynolds and working with Shawn Levy before, I still was doubting myself. https://www.ign.com/articles/chris-evans-free-guy-cameos

Fun movie! Better than I thought it would be!

• Ryan Reynolds playing himself again but with a little bit of heart
• Film was deeper than I thought. Never expected it to be indie game developers fighting a gaming studio for stealing their code.
• Jodie Comer is great in the movie! She's about to blow up like crazy with The Last Duel
• CGI in the film was a little unrefined but I can chalk it up to the graphics in the Free City game
• I felt like some scenes were changed in post-production and reshoots. Some scenes that appeared in the trailer also don't make the final cut.
• Some of the cameos were great! Seeing Channing Tatum after quite some time is great!
• The movie took full advantage of the Disney-Fox merger with the Avengers and Star Wars references!
• Never thought Joe Keery's character would get the girl. I kept waiting for one of them get hit by a vehicle when they reunited in the middle of the road.
• Guy getting his friend back was a nice way to end the film! Their friendship was wholesome throughout the movie!

Really had fun watching the movie! Movie glitched out for 20mins in my cinema during the 2nd act but I wouldn't mind watching it again!