"Ne Zha 2" Every person in China has been ordered to see this 11 times, this over 10 billion dollars. Sequel to a film that doesn't quite meet up to the first one but makes up for it in a stunning visual style blending animation and CGI.
"Superman (Legacy)" The reboot of the DCU presents a love letter to the early 2000s comic books but references the OG stuff from the SuperFriends and the classic 1970s Donner films, far better than any since The Return.
"Fantastic Four First Steps" It doesn't have Squirrel Girl, as did the Kal Kat pitch, but it is the Kal Kat pitch. He did not get credit. Set in a 60s retro world, the Four must battle over custody of a power cosmic baby, withy Galactus there for the ride. Cards has been avoiding it since it has a baby in it. It even has a Kal Kat inspired final song.
"Predator Badlands" Toned down a little version of the Aliens v Predator and Dark Horse films, but for a new audience, and no it is not a riff on the current administration. Terse and witty Enemy Mine meets Picard the synth planet storyline somehow works.
"Demon Slayers Eternal Castle" Not to be confused with "K Pop Demon Hunters", rated PG, as Marx was indeed confused and saw that instead, which was excellent too. This one is a hard R gory story set in an eternal perdition where a team of heroes fights demonic relations.
"Thunderbolts*" This year's theme is ragged antiheroes go and fight demonic aliens or villains, as tat's the in thing. Story tries to reinstate the Avengers using the late 90s comics for inspiration, and some later 2000s ones. This is because they dropped Kang like a hot potato of poo. They needed to come up with something else.
"Captain America Brave New World" Let's just do The Winter Soldier again only without him, and have some Civil War elements, and a lackluster replacement Cap who is not at all convincing. Yes, the miniseries is known also. He wasn't great in that also. No it's not because he's not a white guy. It's because he's not interesting. And Red Hulk should have been, but is executed terribly clumsy in this. If they just called it "Falcon Brave New World" and had Hulk fight Red Hulk maybe it might have worked. Story also forgets that in Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Falcon Cap did take the serum. Just saying he did might make that boring third act more interesting.
"Tron Ares" Let us just dump the second Tran movie and that lame let's make a hot girlfriend for the hero thing, and introduce alleged creepy Leto in the role of the new Tron, and not make it fun. Yes, let's do that. It's the old meme, stop trying to make your phrase a thing. It's not a thing.
"Karate Kid Legends" Chan and Macchio are back, but not used enough, in the follow up to a show only some saw over there on streaming. Using some new characters, and having a karate fight win the day, okay. But then it gets stupid as bringing in a ridiculous plot about a pizza place being blackmailed, and not once just calling the police and a lawyer, is baffling enough. And Danielson is barely even in it.
"Mission Impossible The Final Reckoning" This is what happens when in your second half you have half the budget spent on Tom Cruise's paycheck and the other on some new stunts, but can't meet the level of the last one. Dead Reckoning 2. Yeah. The plane scene is cool but it doesn't really lead to anything interesting. The dive scene is laughable. No way were they in frigid arctic waters. He would have been dead in seconds. Buit we can believe he can dangle from a plane again. He's done that.
"Jurassic World Rebirth" Cue the jokes about various forms of stillborn birth, as this movie even tries to make fun of itself and dinosaur geeks, and then becomes a rehash of Jurassic Park 3, and the Land of the Lost remakes. The have never once taken the hint, what we want is a rampage of dinos in an urban city. Not just one scene in a city. We want them everywhere, ala that terrible America Godzilla, but cool this time. Instead what we get is a dippy plot about heart conditions and getting dino blood to save people, while a T Rex is stopped from having an annoying tot snack by a rubber raft.
"Snow White" Essays and scores of blogs have already gone over this. Both leads are insufferable and disgusting and cannot act. An unrelated little person apparently wanted to be in the movie and ruined it for his fellow little people. They then disowned him online. An original version had there be no little people, just bandits and one dwarf. Then they rotoscoped in hideous CGI dwarves and reshot a third of it, and made Ms. Prissy, and the Evil Queen both Karens, so you wanted them to both be offed by the Huntsman, who had been so neutered he wasn't going to hurt a fly. It ends with a mockery of the original twist about the mirror being the queen, only for t literally to shatter all expectations...of a good movie. Now we know, the laid villain cannot act playing a villain. And just because the lead girl was in an unnecessary remake of West Side Story doesn't mean she can be the princess. And for the record, the name does not come from her being born in winter. It comes from her being pale. It's in the children's story. And she was likely 14 in the original story Disney used to make the film in the 30s.
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