‘Thunder Force : How Exactly Did Tracy Get Her Powers?
The origin story gets a little murky on this oneAndi Ortiz | April 9, 2021 @ 2:15 AM Last Updated: April 9, 2021 @ 2:17 AM
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(Spoilers ahead for Netflix’s “Thunder Force.” Read on at your own risk.)
“Thunder Force” has all the staples of a typical superhero movie except when it comes to our heroes’ origin stories. There are no radioactive spiders or gamma radiation; just good old-fashioned science. But at the end of the movie, that science gets a little murky and we have to ask: How exactly does
Tracy get her powers?
Before we get to Tracy, let’s review a few things. First, there definitely
THUNDER FORCE Review: Melissa McCarthy & Octavia Spencer Can t Save Painfully Unfunny Superhero Comedy
Superhero comedy
Thunder Force hits Netflix today, and this latest collaboration between RL couple Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy is about as funny as a sack of drowned puppies. Check out our review.
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A few sporadic chuckles aside, it s fair to say frequent collaborators and real-life couple Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy don t have the best track record, but Thunder Force might be their most underwhelming effort yet.
In Netflix s superhero comedy, McCarthy plays against type as a kind-hearted slob named Lydia who reunites with estranged bestie Emily (Octavia Spencer) after several years. Ever since her parents were killed by Miscreants (naturally mutated sociopaths. it s all in the intro) Emily s been working on a formula to give normal people super-powers in order to combat the villains, and Lydia winds up becoming her un
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PLOT: After years of Earth being plagued with supervillains, a scientist comes up with a formula to engineer superheroes, leading to two estranged best friends coming together to try and save the world.
REVIEW: After teaming together for movies like
Tammy, The Boss, Life of the Party and Superintelligence, you’d think that, finally, the husband-wife filmmaking duo Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone would want to attempt a comedy that was more than simply sticking the former in a one-joke scenario that was funny for maybe a few minutes in a pitch meeting. Not only is their latest,
Starring Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer and Jason Bateman
Classification PG; 105 minutes
Ah, the ineffable essence of
cinéma du Ben Falcone. The director, writer, producer and actor is a tricky, wily player in the arena of big-screen (or whatever-sized screen) comedy. As the husband and creative partner of Melissa McCarthy, Falcone has directed the three worst films of his wife’s career (
Tammy,
Life of the Party) … but also a pretty decent one (last fall’s
Superintelligence, which found the sweet spot of balancing the actress’s intensely likeably energy and edgy comic rhythm).
By that logic, Falcone and McCarthy’s fifth and latest collaboration,
Comedy is no superpower for Melissa McCarthy s new Thunder Force
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Thunder Force. Jason Bateman, Bobby Cannavale, and Pom Klementieff in
Thunder Force. Taylor Mosby in
Photo by Hopper Stone/Netflix There have been some great comedy teams in the history of show business, but the number of married couples who created comedy magic together is vanishingly small. Of those who succeeded, like Mel Brooks and Anne Bancroft or Jerry Stiller and Anne Meara, each arguably had his or her greatest success while doing work separate from their spouse. Melissa McCarthy and Ben Falcone, who’ve been married since 2005, have gone all-in on both a personal and professional partnership, making five movies since 2014 starring McCarthy, directed by Falcone, and produced by both. And yet not one of them, including the new Netflix movie