The Netflix Top 10 has become a mainstream guide for what folks are watching at home.
This week, the most watched flick on Netflix was the superhero comedy “Thunder Force.”
Is it worth your time? Only if you turn off your brain to appreciate a few masterful comedy scenes sandwiched between otherwise lackluster material of the slapstick genre variety.
The plot follows a Chicago forklift operator, Lydia (Melissa McCarthy), who reunites with her childhood best friend, Emily (Octavia Spencer). The latter has devoted her life to scientific research that accidentally unlocks superpowers to fight deadly mutant criminals.
Spencer rarely appears in such broad comedies. She’s better playing comic relief in dramatic films (i.e. the pie scene in “The Help”). In “Thunder Force,” she seems to be phoning it in a bit, forced to play the serious straight woman to McCarthy’s zany antics.
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It’s very easy to root for Melissa McCarthy. Not only is her success a reminder to young girls everywhere that you don’t have to be a certain type of figure to be successful in showbusiness, but she’s proven time and time again that she has legitimate talent. It’s been 10 years since her breakthrough performance in
Bridesmaids, a showcase of physical comedy that was so brazen and shocking that it earned her an Oscar nomination. Since then, McCarthy has starred-in and produced comedies that bent to her charm and energy. It certainly helped that some of those projects were written and directed by her husband Ben Falcone, but it was still impressive that McCarthy had such strong control over her own career. More so when she was able to show her range as a dramatic actor in