Starting with the positives and believe me there's no many, I really like the concept to this film and with the beginnings elaborate backstory, there's some interesting world building that could potentially be explored with a sequel or a remake.
Also I like the costumes both our leads wear, nothing major but the costumes just look cool and Octavia Spencer has a couple of one liners that made me smirk.
Well that's the positives out of the way. Now it's time for the negatives and the biggest problem with this film is it is not as fun as it should be. With the team and lead actresses, I'm wondering if there was any behind the scenes issues because for whatever reason, the cast feel like they're holding back a lot and it just doesn't feel as fun as it could or should be.
And once again, I didn't enjoy Melissa McCarthy in this film. I just don't think she's a funny actress. She's a good actress when it comes to dramatic performances but just not when it comes to comedic. But to my surprise, despite her funny one liners, I didn't think Octavia Spencer was that good in this film either and it fuels my suspicions that there were behind the scenes issues and maybe McCarthy and Spencer didn't get along because I didn't feel any comedic chemistry between them, Octavia Spencer doesn't look like she's enjoying herself in the film. You can't even buy them as friends and if there weren't any issues, then I don't know whether to blame their performances or the director.
But what absolutely kills this film and puts in my bottom 5 of the year is the horrific excuse for comedy. This film is not funny in the slightest. All it has is cliched jokes we've seen before done better in other films or really disgusting overused running gags like McCarthys character being forced to eat raw chicken which is just a ridiculous excuse for so called comedy.
This film would have benefited much more if it was a comedy spoof on the superhero genre where it makes fun of the cliches and trademarks of the superhero genre but does it in a respectful way and instead we get lazy comedy executed even worse.
Also the action in this film is very bland and whenever we see hand to hand combat, it's horribly edited. Again this would have been good as a spoof and had a great opportunity for comedy but it really misses the mark.
Unfortunately, this is not a good film at all. I really didn't like it, it's not funny and it's a waste of your time so I really wouldn't recommend it. I do hope Melissa McCarthy does more dramatic roles in the future because I think she's good in those roles. Just not comedies.
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