Thunder Force (2021)
Directed by Ben Falcone
In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.
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In this way, Falcone’s Thunder Force shares more in common with the films of the Atomic Age like Them! (1954), It Came From Outer Space (1953), or, in a more recent example, The Vast of Night (2020), though the execution of the narrative has a flavor of action-comedies Blankman (1994) or The Meteor Man (1993).
It's tiresome and the primary reason why I've avoided all Adam Sandler films since "Click."
Call it a lowbrow answer to “The Lobster” (2015) or McCarthy practicing for her role as Ursula in “The Little Mermaid,” but you could pluck this scene out of the movie and present it as a brilliant “SNL” sketch.
Thor: Ragnarok and Ant-Man and the Wasp are so caught up in silly tangents—whether it’s Jeff Goldblum basically playing himself as a space dictator or Michael Peña arguing over the veracity of truth serum—that it’s easy to forget its heroes have to save the day.
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The amount of Old Style beer Lydia drinks in this movie reaches a level of gratuitous product placement that's second only to Brad Pitt drinking Pepsi for several seconds in "World War Z."
The MCU didn’t really find its signature sauce until the now-disgraced Joss Whedon brought his sensibilities to The Avengers , a team-up movie predicated on snappy one-liners and its heroes silently bonding over shawarma.