Portal 2’s opening has one of the best video game jokes ever

Portal 2 isn’t perfect. Expanding and narrativizing this jewel-like game so it could assume the scope of a traditional video game blockbuster was always going to blunt its edges. It’s still very good, though, and still mordantly funny, with a script by Wolpaw, Faliszek, and Jay Pinkerton, and game vocal performances by Stephen Merchant and J.K. Simmons.