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- 2021
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 46 m
- 2021
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 46 m
Summary In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends Lydia (Melissa McCarthy) and Emily (Octavia Spencer) reunite after Emily devises a treatment that gives them the powers to protect their city. While the pair have wildly different personalities — Lydia is a free spirit who leaps without looking and Emily...
Directed By: Ben Falcone
Written By: Ben Falcone
- 2021
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 46 m
- 2021
- PG-13
- Netflix
- 1 h 46 m
Thunder Force
34
3.1
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Summary In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends Lydia (Melissa McCarthy) and Emily (Octavia Spencer) reunite after Emily devises a treatment that gives them the powers to protect their city. While the pair have wildly different personalities — Lydia is a free spirit who leaps without looking and Emily...
Directed By: Ben Falcone
Written By: Ben Falcone
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
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0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
59% Mixed
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
41% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 34 Critic Reviews
34
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
59% Mixed
20 Reviews
20 Reviews
41% Negative
14 Reviews
14 Reviews
Thunder Force is another of McCarthy’s collaborations with her partner, Ben Falcone (who has a small role), and bears all the effortless likability of a well-oiled machine, which cannot help but feel like a real limit on what McCarthy et. al. are capable of while also making a great case for how watchable these actors are when they lean in to being a little washed, a little lo-fi.
The likability of Lydia and Emily helps, but writer-director Ben Falcone’s tendency to milk emotion that isn’t there drags down the movie and some of the comic bits feel obvious and pushed.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 116 User Ratings
3.1
19% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
15% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
66% Negative
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 116 User Ratings
3.1
19% Positive
22 Ratings
22 Ratings
15% Mixed
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
66% Negative
77 Ratings
77 Ratings
Loved this movie!! A very funny and touching Superhero movie with two women as the leads. Love Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer!!!!!
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Thunder Force is a fun, comedic movie, a satire of the overworked super-hero genre that takes itself much too seriously. After reading the professional reviews on metacritic, one has to say, have these professional reviewers forgotten that a movie is suppose to be entertainment, that comedic sarcasm is a form of escapism? Or, have they been locked away in their high rise condos because of the pandemic, and have become jaded and complacent?
Melissa McCarthy gives us a fun romp in Thunder Force, a chuckle at the serious 6-part mega-epics that never end! She really is a fair writer, a good actress, and a fine entertainer! Enjoy the movie! And stop listening to the social media gossip that is always negative, and doesn’t actually review anything!
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Thunder Force is only occasionally insightful, and almost never surprising. It’s arriving in a world where people generally expect more from its genre than light, enjoyable performances and a handful of overstretched gags, and that’s all it has to offer.
Its leading ladies are in fine form, as always, and they're backed by some lively performers. It's the story that struggles to come through, along with a reluctance to just let loose in every way possible.
Watching Thunder Force, it’s baffling to remember that this is Falcone’s fifth film as a director. There’s a convenience store fight so ineptly staged I had to watch it three times to decipher what was happening, and running gags that aren’t funny the first time and grow worse with every repetition.
Thunder Force is at least an equal-opportunities bummer: It doesn’t work as a superhero adventure or a midlife reclamation movie or a mismatched buddy comedy or a family entertainment unless your aim is to disappoint all members of the family equally.
It’s a tedious mess to endure and seemed like way more fun making than watching.
Great movie! Funny ane love Melissa and Octavia. Congrats!!! I was just soooo tired and sad at home. And then, they saved my week! Love them both!!!
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it's not all that bad. special effects was ok, plot line simplistic but the greatest set back is the script and fans wanting to see the two master comics in action.
imagive Octavia in a mellowed character and intelligent. she did not come across as funny because she is not her usual self.
Melissa is hilarious as usual and we loved her to bits but the scriptwriter did not give her anything to say. mayb she should improvise next time. as for jason, he is really crabby.
but to us it was a no brainer lazy evening after dinner with nothing to do. it was ok. at least NO SWEAR WORDS, NO DRUGS. how wonderful
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Una película que parece decidirse más por la comedia sentimental que por la parodia y sale perdiendo.
Sumario
Fallida comedia con Melissa McCarthy y una desganada Octavia Spencer encarnando a dos superheroínas de diseño. Algunas escenas realmente muy graciosas quedan medio perdidas, como sueltas, en una película que parece decidirse más por la comedia sentimental que por la parodia y sale perdiendo.
Reseña
Una radiación cósmica convierte a algunos seres humanos en malhechores con determinados poderes. Años después, una científica y un amiga de su infancia de reencuentran y por accidente terminan formando un escuadrón de superheroínas que se enfrentan a un candidato a intendente de Chicago.
Melisa McCarthy y su esposo Ben Falcone (director y guinista) constituyen una dupla artística con varios títulos en su haber, basados en el carisma y la indudable gracia de la primera.
En este caso, Fuerza Trueno parece un collage de dos películas diferentes que no terminan de combinarse: una comedia sentimental sobre el reencuentro de dos amigas (una exitosa, la científica Emily , a cargo de Octavia Spencer, y otra no tanto, Lydia, interpretada por McCarthy) y una comedia paródica sobre dos superheroínas obesas de diseño (cercana en estilo a la maravillosa Spy, también protagonizada por McCarthy pero dirigida por Paul Feig), . Es como si hubiera una indecisión por parte del director entre filmar una película en serio sobre superhérores o una parodia sobre ellos (una síntesis que si logra Shazam!, por ejemplo).
Pero la parte “seria” resulta bastante anodina y uno queda, en cambio deseando más momentos graciosos, que los hay y mucho. También están logrados las escenas de acción y sus efectos especiales.
Contribuye al resultado general la actuación de Octavia Spencer, que mantiene el mismo registro desganado durante toda la película, con escasa química con su coequiper; como si la comedia no fuese lo suyo. No tienen desperdicio, en cambio, las escenas con Jason Batman, que derrocha química y gracia. (Spanish / English)
A film that seems to decide more on sentimental comedy than parody and loses.
Summary
Failed comedy with Melissa McCarthy and a reluctant Octavia Spencer as two designer superheroes. Some really very funny scenes are half lost, like loose, in a movie that seems to decide more on sentimental comedy than parody and loses.
Review
A cosmic radiation turns some human beings into evildoers with certain powers. Years later, a scientist and a childhood friend meet again and by accident end up forming a squad of superheroines who face a candidate for mayor of Chicago.
Melisa McCarthy and her husband Ben Falcone (director and screenwriter) are an artistic duo with several titles to their credit, based on the charisma and undoubted grace of the former.
In this case, Thunder Force looks like a collage of two different films that do not finish combining: a sentimental comedy about the reunion of two friends (one successful, the scientist Emily, by Octavia Spencer, and the other not so much, Lydia, played by McCarthy) and a parodic comedy about two obese designer superheroines (close in style to the marvelous Spy, also starring McCarthy but directed by Paul Feig),. It is as if there is an indecision on the part of the director between filming a serious movie about superheroes or a parody about them (a synthesis that Shazam! Can achieve, for example).
But the "serious" part is quite anodyne and one is left, instead wishing for more funny moments, which there are and a lot. The action scenes and their special effects are also achieved.
Contributing to the overall result is the performance of Octavia Spencer, who maintains the same listless register throughout the film, with little chemistry with her coequiper; as if comedy wasn't his thing. On the other hand, the scenes with Jason Batman, which exudes chemistry and grace, are not wasted.
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bad
[ bad ]
adjective, worse, worst;(Slang) bad·der, bad·dest for 36.
not good in any manner or degree.
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A big waste of time. Bad acting, weird plot and overall a failure. Productions with McCarthy in it are really either a big hit or big miss - this time its a miss.
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Awards
Golden Schmoes Awards
• 1 Nomination
