Review: 'Tron Legacy' is smart but not as cool as the first

Tron Legacy    PG    

            Joe Kasinkski's sequel to the 1982 movie that invented the terms for gamers, the grid (matrix, internet), users (computer users that is), digital life, and all that is better than the critics again think it is. Seems like deja vu 28 years later. Although at times the Karen O/Kate Moss (the Matrix's Trinity?) lookalike girl is annoying, the son Sam (like Sam of Labouf in Transformers) seem like they've been done before, the overall story is intriguing and the zen like cool of the Grid is certainly awesome. Interesting how they get around the 'current' internet in the flick. The whole Gird could probably fit on a zip drive now. (it was on a floppy disk, only 28 K (kilobytes) in the original. The OS alone would have been incredibly primitive and there's no way that laser thing would work, (digitizing even a human cell would take a mess of supercomputers) but okay, and in 80s tech would surround Earth, despite that it was fun. The boy finding his father idea gets a digital spin, and the story is Disney hokum but okay, it's Disney. Liked it. Rent it.            
Review by Adam Browne