The movie "The Power of Thunder" which aired on Netflix with Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer is fun of trash, and fully aware that it is like this • The novelty: a full African-American protagonist
new Age?
A full-fledged African-American superheroine
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From "The Power of Thunder"
Hollywood has two sides.
The one, central side that we are all familiar with is the obsessive reference to appearance, plastic surgery, filters, and attempts to achieve body measurements that are not always realistic.
The other side, more cautiously, has only begun to find its limited place in recent years, including celebrities posing without makeup, plus-size models, looking women who used to be called "interesting" in lead roles and dissatisfaction with anorexic models and actresses, who have been the perfect model for a long time.
And yet, the first side dominates loudly and unquestioningly.
Movie stars are mostly beautiful, extremely thin and glamorous, or become like them (hello, Rebel Wilson).
But if so far Side Kick has been allowed to be full, and often awkward and funny, the movie "Power of Thunder" arrives on Netflix, starring Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer, and preys on the cards.
These are two main stars who are not thin or beautiful in the conventional Hollywood sense, who carry an entire movie on them.
True, we all know McCarthy and her tapecast - the crazy, funny obese who knows how to swear properly (and did most of the stunts in the film herself, as she said in an interview with Allen) - but in this role next to her, who plays the billionaire and serious scientist, we would expect a hero Sexy shapely on heels and with zero sense of humor.
Instead, they find Octavia Spencer ("the help"), who prefers wide and comfortable clothes, is less preoccupied with her body size and knows how to be funny when needed.
A black woman as a superhero is fine, provided she looks like Halle Barry, but a fat black as a superhero?
Without a doubt - refreshing.
But Spencer, at least, is the only clichéd breaker.
The villainous character is played by model Pom Clementif ("Mantis" in the Marvel cinematic universe), a dramatic-looking blonde who likes to wear tight black leather suits, and Bobby Cannabley ("Crime Empire") is the ultimate villain who easily gets upset and his eyes do not turn, yes, .
All that is missing is a mysterious disease from which blood dies from the nose before we die, and we would mark V on the entire checklist.
Other than that, the film provides us with everything we expected from a standard superhero film in which they did not invest too much, especially in the plot.
In a world where only sociopaths have superpowers, two childhood friends who broke up following a quarrel unite in adulthood and manage to give themselves superpowers to fight the villains who want to rule the city and later the whole world.
In between there are the expected jokes in dangerous situations, action fights, people flying in the air, a villain who controls laser beams, and of course the requested affair - which is more entertaining than romantic - with the best villain in the story, Jason Bateman ("Ozark"), who upgrades the film to a happy performance heart.
The "power of thunder" is aware of itself and that it is trash cans, and it does not try to be anything else, not even by mistake.
There seems to be no cliché or predictable sentence that this film did not nationalize for itself, but we did not really expect anything else from it.
"We'm a 7th League movie," shouts any fight scene or new character joining the cast, "and we love it."
The film was directed by Ben Falcon, McCarthy's husband.
Anyone who loved "Tammy" directed by him will probably love - okay, like - this movie too, that even if all his accomplishments are expressed in replacing the heroine tapecast with superhero movies with someone who ten years ago would have played the assistant (which indeed happened) - that's fine.
"The Power of Thunder", Netflix