There's the bones of something really great here - it's attempting to tick all of the boxes of 'The Movies', but I'm afraid it comes short with all of them.

The interface is really poor and not very informative. It's hard to keep up with a game that has no interest in communication, and what communication it does have offers very little insight. Compared to the game it's attempting to re-attempt, it's really sloppy and uninviting, with no character to the text. It's doing a disservice to the entire game.

The art style is perhaps the biggest sin. All of the characters are hideous. The graphics are beyond unpleasant to look at, with washed out colours, a really dull palette and awful, awful character models that seem to constantly be losing their shoes or hair. It's no fun to build a studio or characters that aren't fun to look at. It drains all of the game's energy.

The game's movie maker has the bones of something excellent, but the character models struggle to stay static and the line generator is janky as hell. There's no ability to really make something with the complexity a game managed nearly 20 years ago, and what it does manage to make looks awful.

It sucks to be so negative about an ambitious little game, but everything here is just a little too bad to make for a decent recommendation. Nothing manages to scratch that itch. I'll probably be requesting a refund purely as I just don't think there's much chance of the game being 'saved' - it all feels like fundamental stuff.

really not much fun

Relaxing tycoon with a lot of potential. I hope developers will continuously update this game, adding new features and tweaking the concept. I appreciate the recent addition of sharing movies and characters. Ive spent way too much time with the character creator. And ofcourse the fake tan orangutan is already there in the community characters

It still has a few issues with character movements, lip-syncing with the actors, and some sudden appearances when watching movie clips, plus the facial expressions don't always seem quite right. Nevertheless, I'm having a blast playing it and I feel it's worth supporting, plus it’s so cool to get back into a game like 'The Movies' after missing this type of game. So, if the developers keep working on updates, adding new stuff and taking community feedback into account, it’s gonna get even better.

I like this as a casual game. I'd suggest doing something about the tutorial. But the ai movies and character voices are pretty funny