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Unusually for an animated movie aimed at younger viewers with a full global theatrical release, Ratchet & Clank isn't available to watch in 3D. This is obviously good news for parents who resent paying for multiple pairs of plastic Roy Orbison-style glasses that add an illusion of visual depth to productions that often seem paper-thin in many other areas. Instead, Ratchet & Clank boasts an even more exotic stereoscopic experience: the opportunity to play an already critically and commercially successful PS4 game that is clearly several light years ahead of the usual rushed tie-in.With so much of the same core talent involved in both versions and vertically integrated character models and assets, the Ratchet & Clank film and game share a perhaps unprecedented amount of creative DNA. The joint release feels like a demonstrable victory for longstanding R&C developer Insomniac and their original creative vision, even if the Pixar brain trust probably aren't looking nervously over their shoulders just yet.
Plot-wise, it's a buffed-up rehash of the original Ratchet & Clank PS2 game from 2002. In a colourful, crammed universe full of cartoonish future-tech and squidgy flora and fauna, the power-hungry Chairman Drek (a Blarg warlord with the pinstripe suit and slicked-back ponytail of a 90s yuppie) unwittingly engineers a fateful meeting between two cosmic orphans.
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