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MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU

July 2, 2022 By Leave a Comment

MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU

There is a great deal of mileage to be had with characters as intrinsically adorable the Minions. And MINIONS: THE RISE OF GRU takes it as far as it can go with a script that wobbles as uncertainly as Otto, the most loyal and least competent of little yellow creatures, does on the steep streets… Read More »

Tagged With: 1976, disco inferno, Dr. Nefario, kung fu, origin story, San Francisco, sequel, Vicious Six

F9: The Fast Saga

June 26, 2021 By Leave a Comment

F9: The Fast Saga

I get it. After eight installments of souped-up cars zooming (in the old sense) across the screen, the stakes are very high in F9: THE FAST SAGA, a franchise that is dedicated to finding new ways to crash, crumple, and otherwise decimate automobiles. And so including a Pontiac Fiero tooling around in space should not… Read More »

Tagged With: car crash, car in space, origin story, sequel

JOKER

January 12, 2020 By Leave a Comment

It is, perhaps, a truism that every generation gets the Batman or Superman that they need/deserve. With Todd Philips’ JOKER, though, we get more than a cultural gloss of the zeitgeist.  We get a funhouse mirror that lurks deep within a house of horrors that is an extrapolation of what happens when the 1% of… Read More »

Tagged With: clown, DC, origin story, riots, social commentary, urban decay

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

December 15, 2018 By Leave a Comment

SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE

Just when you thought the Spiderman franchise might have finally run its course of endless reboots comes SPIDER-MAN: INTO THE SPIDER-VERSE, a film that that reinvigorates both animation and the super-hero origin story. Told in a wry, raucous style, it dares to explore complicated themes of family ties and personal responsibility while slyly poking fun… Read More »

Tagged With: animation, multiverse, origin story

JUSTICE LEAGUE

December 1, 2017 By 1 Comment

JUSTICE LEAGUE

JUSTICE LEAGUE is a film with many problems. Some are inherent in an origin-style story that introduces several characters to what the filmmakers hope will be an audience eager to follow their further, individual, adventures. Some are just inexplicable. Take the plot device that is nothing short of asinine, and which I can’t discuss without… Read More »

Tagged With: Batman, Hellscape, Mother Box, origin story, resurrection, sequel, Steppenwolf, Superman, Wonder Woman

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

May 10, 2016 By Leave a Comment

X-MEN: APOCALYPSE

X-MEN APOCALYPSE is as big and bold as a special effect-laden action-adventure flick should be. It’s also audacious enough to make the story about more than leveling the planet or finding new ways to decapitate people. As with the best in this series from the Marvel Comics universe, the real enemy is the lethal combination… Read More »

Tagged With: alternate reality, ancient Egypt, franchise, Marvel Comics, mutants, origin story, sequel

FANTASTIC FOUR, Alas Not So Much

August 7, 2015 By Leave a Comment

FANTASTIC FOUR, Alas Not So Much

So the story goes, when the first atomic bomb was being tested out there in the New Mexico desert, no one was sure that that chain reaction that started with detonation would end with the explosion. There was, in other words, a chance that the reaction would continue until our planet was a burned out… Read More »

Tagged With: cgi, FANTASTIC FOUR, Marvel Comics, Miles Teller, military-industrial complex, narrative, origin story, parallel dimensions, super hero, teleportation

BATMAN BEGINS

October 21, 2014 By Leave a Comment

BATMAN BEGINS

Superheroes say much about the culture that spawned them, and so it is with the various incarnations of Batman. In the 60s, he was a pop icon with more than a little camp fluttering around his satin go-go boots. In the 80s and 90s, it was a wallow in excess with sets that duked it… Read More »

Tagged With: cowl, Gotham City, graphic novel to screen, origin story, samurai sword, superhero, utility belt

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