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Summer Movie Reviews: Superheroes
The Lego Movie - The trailers led us to believe it would fall into typical and unfortunate tropes. I managed to avoid most of them and lampshade a few others. (Actually, it kinda felt like the writers were TVTropes fans themselves.) And the Batman is a glorious Batman. And did anyone else think that Alison Brie’s Unikitty sounded a lot like Desiree Goyette’s Nermal from Garfield & Friends? The other thing that occurs to me is that, okay, yes, the violence is happening to Lego figures, but this seems way more violent than, as a PG-rated “kids” movie, it would have been twenty years ago?
Guardians of the Galaxy -Delightful fun, and even more wacky than any Marvel movie before it, but it makes it work. The dialogue is brilliant even if the plot is formulaic. And I have many theories about where they’re going with the Infinity Stones plotline, now.
X-Men: Days of Future Past - Continuity? What continuity? Well, okay, in theory the various movies all fit together, it’s just that in practice you have retcon things left and right to make them make sense. But they’re fun little action flicks, and you get to see Stewart and McKellen making sorrowful puppy-dog eyes at each other, and Jackman walks around shirtless, and Mystique gets some really awesome fight scenes. Totally enjoyable if you turn down any hardcore geek portions of your brain for the duration, and just go “Hey! It’s Blink fighting Sentinals in the future! Woo!”
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Now, I don’t want to be too harsh here, because I actually really like Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, I think he’s got the right look, and does some great quipping, and really gets the essence of the character down. For that matter, I think Emma Stone does a smart, capable Gwen Stacy and that she and Garfield have excellent chemistry. Unfortunately, everything around them is a terribly-scripted hot mess. The science is even worse than the first film, and the legal/business side of things is just as appalling. Electro’s arc—which could have turned into an awesome redemption story in a better movie—is abruptly dropped in favor of having the second supervillain come up out of nowhere and fridge Gwen. Then the entire dénouement is, instead of a real resolution to this film, the hacked-together resolution to a different film that exists to lead into the obvious Sinister Six sequel. And yes, I want to see Garfield’s Spider-Man fight the Sinister Six, I really do. But I would have preferred this to be a better movie with a weaker lead-in.
Guardians of the Galaxy -Delightful fun, and even more wacky than any Marvel movie before it, but it makes it work. The dialogue is brilliant even if the plot is formulaic. And I have many theories about where they’re going with the Infinity Stones plotline, now.
X-Men: Days of Future Past - Continuity? What continuity? Well, okay, in theory the various movies all fit together, it’s just that in practice you have retcon things left and right to make them make sense. But they’re fun little action flicks, and you get to see Stewart and McKellen making sorrowful puppy-dog eyes at each other, and Jackman walks around shirtless, and Mystique gets some really awesome fight scenes. Totally enjoyable if you turn down any hardcore geek portions of your brain for the duration, and just go “Hey! It’s Blink fighting Sentinals in the future! Woo!”
The Amazing Spider-Man 2 - Now, I don’t want to be too harsh here, because I actually really like Andrew Garfield as Spider-Man, I think he’s got the right look, and does some great quipping, and really gets the essence of the character down. For that matter, I think Emma Stone does a smart, capable Gwen Stacy and that she and Garfield have excellent chemistry. Unfortunately, everything around them is a terribly-scripted hot mess. The science is even worse than the first film, and the legal/business side of things is just as appalling. Electro’s arc—which could have turned into an awesome redemption story in a better movie—is abruptly dropped in favor of having the second supervillain come up out of nowhere and fridge Gwen. Then the entire dénouement is, instead of a real resolution to this film, the hacked-together resolution to a different film that exists to lead into the obvious Sinister Six sequel. And yes, I want to see Garfield’s Spider-Man fight the Sinister Six, I really do. But I would have preferred this to be a better movie with a weaker lead-in.