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Written and Directed by Ben Falcone.
Starring Melissa McCarthy, Octavia Spencer, Bobby Cannavale, Jason Bateman, Pom Klementieff, Melissa Ponzio, Taylor Mosby, Braxton Bjerken, Tyrel Jackson Williams, Melissa Leo, Marcella Lowery, Kevin Dunn, Bria Danielle, Vivian Falcone, Tai Leshaun, Mia Kaplan, and Ben Falcone.
SYNOPSIS:
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.
I’ve lost track of how many collaborations there are now between the comedic husband-and-wife duo of writer and director Ben Falcone and Melissa McCarthy, but I do know that
Lightning doesn t strike.
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Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer don superhero suits to fight evil mutants in a comedy from writer-director Ben Falcone.
If
Thunder Force will be remembered for anything, it might be this bizarro footnote: The movie marks the second time, after
The Shape of Water, that a character played by Octavia Spencer learns her best friend has had life-changing sex with a fish-man. Which makes it sound a lot more interesting than it is.
It helps, of course, that the trans-species couple in question, each with unasked-for superhuman strength, are played by Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman. There might be no one better than McCarthy to poke a welcome hole in superhero self-seriousness. But