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Bounce (2000) and Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez called it quits after
Jersey Girl (2004), others keep right on trucking through the negativity.
Ben Falcone has directed four previous features starring
Melissa McCarthy, his wife and one of the world’s funniest humans, and while the three theatrical releases all made a profit, they’re also almost universally reviled. The fourth,
Superintelligence (2020), went straight to HBO Max where it also found itself lambasted critically. Turns out the fifth time is the charm, though, as their latest collaboration, Netflix’s
Thunder Force, is a silly, warm, and frequently funny time at the movies.
Thunder Force Is a Super-Bore Directed by Ben Falcone
Starring Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Jason Bateman, Bobby Cannavale, Pom Klementieff
Photo: Hopper Stone/Netflix
posited that Melissa McCarthy s worst movies have something in common: her husband. At that point, McCarthy and her writer/director/actor spouse Ben Falcone had only collaborated on two films. A few years later, Thunder Force is the couple s fifth collaborative effort, and that damning insight stays accurate as ever.
Like
Tammy and Life of the Party,
Thunder Force is a vehicle for McCarthy to riff and vamp around in a half-assed kind of way. As Lydia, a blathering, beer-swilling, Van Halen-loving forklift driver, she s just hanging out in life, longing for the connection of former best friend Emily (Octavia Spencer), an ambitious geneticist who cut slacker Lydia out of her life to focus on her mission: developing the means of making ordinary people superheroes. This is in response to the rise of a ra
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