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Thunder Force

2021

Ben Falcone

Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Bobby Cannavale, Pom Klementieff ...

3.5

1,785

Comedy 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.

	Media	Author	Review
		Jessica Kiang Los Angeles Times	"Even the most randomly chosen test audience of wine moms and Ritalin-addled tweens could brainstorm something funnier, sharper, better than this."
		Richard Roeper Chicago Sun-Times	"Superpowers turn two likable actors into an anemic duo. The transformed Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer are no match for lazy, gross-out jokes and mediocre action sequences (…) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"
		Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Melissa McCarthy gets more chuckles than laughs in a comedy that sticks too close to her comfort zone."
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"Painfully lazy (...) [It] does nothing to improve upon its predecessors. It does, though, underscore how cemented in shtick McCarthy’s comic characters have become, and how much better this gifted actress deserves"
		Sheri Linden The Hollywood Reporter	"With its bland positivity (...) flimsy-bordering-on-indifferent plotting and Post-it-note-deep characters, that leaves the bits and shtick to buoy Falcone's screenplay. They're hit-and-miss"
		Alonso Duralde The Wrap	"This shaggy superhero spoof doesn’t consistently live up to its best moments, but at least those moments are there"
		Kate Erbland IndieWire	"[It] isn’t clever enough to break new ground in the superhero milieu, nor is it silly enough to mine its material for the kind of jokes that would make it distinctive."
		Angie Han Mashable	"Almost nothing about this movie works, and it's definitely for lack of trying (...) 'Thunder Force' is too inept and apathetic to be truly wicked"
		Beth Webb Empire	"Spencer and McCarthy are the superheroes we deserve, but are capable of so much more than bowel-movement jokes in this tepid and formulaic buddy romp (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Kristy Puchko IGN	"'Thunder Force' doesn’t work as a superhero movie or a buddy comedy, as it refuses to revel in the big moments of either"
		Norman Wilner Now Toronto	"Imagine a movie where Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer get superpowers, and nothing funny happens. That's this one"
		Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"This is by-the-numbers stuff, not quite funny enough for comedy or having enough of the crazed seriousness that marks out a successful superhero franchise (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"
		Peter Travers ABC News	"It’s actually painful watching these mighty talents strain to find laughs in this comedy dead zone."
		Sheila O'Malley rogerebert.com	"With such powerhouses as McCarthy and Spencer at the helm, it's a surprise that so much of the film is inert, rote, conventional (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

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