It's always fun to go into a movie with very little knowledge about what to expect. This was styled as a horror movie genre, but in the context of a kid's pizza parlor. Lest you think it's an original premise, it's based on a video game of the same concept.
Mike (Josh Hutcherson) is an unemployed single, tasked with taking care of his 12 year old sister. When offered a nighttime security job at an abandoned pizza parlor, Freddy Fasbender's, he has little choice but to take it. When he is there he finds out that the animatronic robots have a life of their own, populated by mysterious ghosts. Along the way, Mike has to face his own ghosts that he has carried for years.
This is a fun 80s/90s period piece with Freddy's as a good stand in for Chuck E. Cheese. There are some scary parts but the movie seems to have a good heart.
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