YMMV / Tetris (2023)

• Adorkable: Both Henk Rogers and Alexey Pajitnov embody those tropes, especially with the way they interact with each other.
• Aluminum Christmas Trees: Yes, food lines really existed in Soviet Russia especially if you were trying to get meat (as in the film) or something more "exotic" like fruits and sweets.
• And You Thought It Would Fail: Be honest, when you think of "Tetris adapted into a film", your mind probably doesn't have high expectations. The reveal that the movie would not be an adaptation of the games, but rather the story of its incredibly complicated licensing negotiations helped to ease people into the idea of a Tetris movie, however, and in the end, the film released to a stellar 81% on Rotten Tomatoes, with many leaving the film pleasantly surprised.
• Awesome Music:
  • No one expected K-Pop girl group aespa to release a song for the soundtrack of this movie. But they did an amazing job with it, with fans and non-fans of aespa alike remarking that it's one of their best songs, despite the unexpected source.
  • The movie has not just one, but two cover versions of Bonnie Tyler's "Holding Out For A Hero" made for it, one in Russian by Paolina, and one in Japanese by ReN.
  • The end credits feature a pretty epic mashup of the Pet Shop Boys' "Opportunities" and the Tetris theme.
• Catharsis Factor: After all the crap Stein and the Maxwells pull throughout the movie, it's really satisfying watching them collectively go through a Villainous Breakdown and tearing themselves apart, when it turns out they have nothing but Computer rights and Nintendo is about to snatch the Video Game and Handheld rights to Tetris.
• Signature Scene: The car chase, while fictional, is the most talked about scene.
• Special Effects Failure: There are certain points in the movie where the actors are playing Tetris on a Famicom, but the footage on the screen are versions of Tetris from non-Nintendo systems (such as the IBM PC version when Yamauchi plays Tetris).
• Unexpected Character: Leaving aside the fact of the whole existence of this film as a whole, much less being a dramatization of the story behind the game and how it became a world sensation, this is probably the first time both the American and Japanese Nintendo's then-leadership have been depicted on-screen, including Nintendo of America's Howard Lincoln, Minoru Arakawa and, above all, Nintendo Co. Ltd.'s Hiroshi Yamauchi. This is especially relevant with the latter, as he has never been dramatized in a film, not even in his native Japan, in part due to Nintendo and Japanese culture as a whole strongly emphasizing personal privacy.^note In fact, the only time Yamauchi himself has appeared on-screen in popular media outside news about Nintendo or himself was in Mario Artist's "Talent Studio" disk for the ill-fated 64DD.

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