The Edge 12

We enjoy going the Edge. There’s nothing stunningly different about it than any other stadium seating style theater. Pricing is status quo; however, I will say if you go to discount pricing sites, you can get an awesome deal. Adult ticket, Large Popcorn and Large Coke for $ 13.50. We buy an extra adult ticket for $ 6.50, so our movie date is $ 20. Service is good. I’ve never had a poor experience with the concession folks or the bartender. Yes I said BARTENDER! What? Yep, you can beer or wine. Also, they have a VIP membership which makes drinks ½ price. If you enjoy movies like we do, this is a good choice. We enjoy going to Edge.

This is where I always go to enjoy the newest movies that come out! The arcade area is getting a little run down. However the staff is always friendly and you are usually one of the only people in the theater! Great place to see new movies!

The screen in our theater was exceptionally small and the room only held around 150 – 200. I’m not sure if all of the theaters are that small or not. The staff was really friendly, the place was clean and the film was in focus. They have a bar if you like a beverage with your film.

While this is not a super nice theater, it has a couple things going for it: proximity and the alcohol pass. Distance from Avondale may be 5mi tops. I hate strip malls, but there isn’t another theater close to us so we’ve chosen The Edge 12 as our go-​to spot. Now for the alchy pass… I’d recommend getting one right off if you plan to drink multiple times, even if you visit maybe 2x a year.
$ 3.50 for a Guinness outside my house is not a bad deal

I don’t think anyone cleans the theaters between showings. I went to a movie on a slow Monday evening, and the floors of an empty theater were covered in food and trash. Almost every aisle had garbage in it. We had to choose our seats based on where the least amount of trash was sitting.

Place is jumpin, they serve alcohol that’s great I guess, nice touch for the children

I live less than three miles from here. I remember when this was the Festival 12. It shut down years ago. The nearest theatre was either Trussville or Vestavia. So when The Edge reopened several years ago, I was super excited to have some entertainment back in my neck of the woods. They show current movies and the prices are in line with other theaters. However… I don’t think I’ve ever paid regular price. The Edge always offers a discount on The Sharing Spree, Groupon or LivingSocial. One time I bought 5 movie tickets for $ 1.75 a piece. Great deal! Just recently I bought a groupon for two tickets, medium popcorn and two drinks $ 12. You can’t beat that with a stick! They have a $ 5 day on Tuesdays as well. Overall, I get a good deal in my area and I get to get out of the house. I win!

Drove 15 miles to this theater only for them to decide not to show the film (at 4:30p on Sunday). Despite the time listing (for Dope) being online and in their marquee! I don’t understand. Why would you advertise that and then don’t play it? No reason. No contingency. Very disappointed.

Having a blast at the trampoline park! I love that as a mother I can watch the kids play while I catch up on some reading. It’s clean, safe and absolutely amazing for the kids. They will sleep so well tonight!!! On top of the place being the best of trampoline parks (we’ve been to a dozen ranging from Orlando all the way to Bama) we love that lunch is a short skip away to great sushi! Love it here. Well done Edge Theater!

The only theater in town that serves beer and wine! Staff is very friendly and helpful

This theater isn’t all that bad. Ive Been there quite a few times, and they have nice prices and bathrooms. They are really creative, and they even just added a steel jump park, which includes a dodgeball arena, a basketball court, jumpy lanes, and a big pit where u can jump, and do flips into. The audio isn’t always as good though, but I’d say it’s worth checking it out.

I want so badly for this to be the quirky theater that brings the indie movies to Birmingham. But the past few visits have left me feeling the same as others have said — «Wish I’d stayed home!»
Months ago, hubs and I came here and saw Snowpiercer. First time I’ve ever had to tell a theater to turn down the volume and it took two trips to the concession stand/​ticket counter/​customer service for them to actually do something about it. The aspect ratio of the movie was off kilter — it had the letterboxing yet was cropped short on the sides and the color reminded me of a bootleg copy you’d download off the internet.
So we came here this past weekend to see Kumiko the Treasure Hunter. We walked into a pitch black theater. We were early so we waited about 20 minutes. It wasn’t the first showing of the day, but I thought maybe the previous showing had no one show up so they just didn’t even roll the film? I thought, they might forget about us if we’re the only ones in here, so I got up and notified staff there were no lights on and the projector wasn’t even running commercials and they said they’d alert management. We continued waiting in the dark. Other people came in. Then we heard the door open and someone else was standing there complaining about how dark it was, loudly, and then LO AND BEHOLD two fluorescent rectangles illuminated on the ceiling. At least the movie started on time and there were no previews or commercials, but a few minutes in and we realize it’s in another language and there are NO subtitles. We gave it a minute, then decided this really wasn’t worth the headache and left.
We asked the ticket-​tearing kid where to go to get a refund. He verified which theater we were coming from and said, «They’re going to fix the subtitles and restart the movie.» We insisted we’d rather have the refund. We were directed back to the ticket counter, to the same guy who sold us the tickets, and when we explained our issues with the movie he argued with us about the subtitles issue and actually said, with real people words, that the lack of subtitles was not their fault.
Not your fault?! You charged me for a movie but played it in a format in which no one could understand, without even so much as a warning that it was in another language, and while yes NOW you seem to be trying to fix the issue after people have complained, I don’t want to rewatch the beginning of the movie I’ve already seen. Not to mention you couldn’t be bothered to turn on some damn lights so people could find their seats? You’re a movie theater; playing the movie correctly is pretty much your job! It’s the agreement we made with each other when I handed you money and it’s not unreasonable for me to ask for that money back when you haven’t got your business in order. I’m glad I paid cash because I would have been more irritated to have to wait around for the credit to appear on my bank account.
If you personally have had nothing but positive experiences with the Edge, by all means, continue to support this business. (They’d rather add some overpriced trampoline attraction than fine tune their customer service, it seems.) But for me it’s not worth the time and gas money it takes me to patronize this establishment. I wish I could say you get what you pay for but you barely get that.

We live about 5 minutes from The Edge so it’s obviously our movie theater of choice. Honestly, I would come here anyway. I like supporting a local business and The Edge does a great job of setting itself apart from other theaters.
Food and drinks are about as expensive as other movie theaters, but they run Groupon and LivingSocial deals all the time and have a much larger selection of food including chicken fingers, hamburger sliders, and more. They also serve beer and wine which is great on a date, but it’s too expensive for us to get more than one or two drinks. The place is usually quite clean and the staff is friendly. As others have mentioned, it’s nice being able to buy tickets and food at the same register and not have to wait in two separate lines.
I’ll be honest, I’ve seen a couple movies here that had issues with audio or video, but the management is usually is quick to fix issues with movies and the staff is nice about it. I’ll continue to patronize The Edge as long as they have good prices and set themselves apart from big name theaters.

It’s so hard to be negative about a place that is in your neighborhood and you really really want to make it, but I really need the edge to try at least a little bit harder.
The theaters are never marked correctly, so you always have to go double-​check that you are going into the right one. Then in the theater there is audio but no video going so you go back to make sure everything is okay — and this has happened with three of the last four movies we’ve been to see.
It would also help if the on-​site managers had a better disposition, but I work in customer service too and maybe they are just over it by now.
When I’m there I’m taking my kids so I can’t take advantage of the beer. Maybe that would make it better?
I will say this — clean bathrooms and the prices are in-​line with other theaters in town.

I Really wanted the experience to be positive but after 2 attempts it was a mess. The first movie they could not get the sound to work and just today I went back to another movie and the audio only worked in one speaker. I hope they invest capital in the equipment – the basics need to work first before anything else. Good luck and I hope it improves.

Meh, an experience in which I thought to myself, «Hmmm… shoulda stayed home.»
I’ll admit, I appreciate that tickets here were a couple dollars cheaper than at The Summit theatre, but I’ll pay a couple dollars extra to be comfortable. The seats here were awful! Either you are sitting forward or leaning back into the laps of the row behind you with no inbetween. And the sound was crazy loud (trust me, this is not something I would usually complain about, but it was DEAFENING) until somebody went to ask the attendant to turn it down. How did it get that loud in the first place? Surely nobody would have sat through that in an earlier show.
To top it off, upon entering the theatre, I was hit with an overwhelming mildew odor. One can get used to lots of things, but this smell was a hard one to ignore through a two hour movie.
For this kind of experience, I’d expect to be paying $ 3 max for a ticket (excusable for a dollar theatre), but heck… there’s a reason everybody goes to The Summit instead.

I do not find much wrong with this theater/​game room/​hodgepodge. They do a lot of creative different things here at this theater that I really enjoy. I especially love that they are always putting out deals to the coupon sites. Give this theater a shot for its uniqueness.

Any theater that serves wine and beer with your movie deserves a chance. They even offer a VIP program for those of us who like to enjoy libations with movies on a regular basis.
The tickets and concessions were pretty standard pricing. The theater was clean. And they said they will be upgrading to the latest surround sound and picture quality within the month. Plus, they are supposed to be building in a lounge area for those of us who have to be compulsively early.
The only downfall I can think of is that it was kind of difficult to find. My GPS couldn’t quite pinpoint it and, even once you turn into the shopping center, it’s situated WAY in the back, so you don’t really know that you’re in the correct place until you’re in the parking lot.
All in all, pretty good place. I will be returning for another round!

Really, I won’t ever go back!
Dirty, small, rude, terrible audio and video!
No reason for you to go a this theater

This theater has attempted to revitalize the old Festival Theater. Sadly they could not cosmetically enhance the theater to cover up the fact that it is in an old out dated building. The theaters are all pretty small and the stadium seating is not very comfortable at all. They try and differentiate themselves by serving beer and wine but it is so over priced that it’s a waste of time to even serve it.
The one good thing about the theater is they have Independent films that never come to any other theater in town. That fact alone will get them some business but otherwise skip this place