Thunder Force
2021, Comedy/Adventure, 1h 47m
121 Reviews 500+ RatingsWhat to know
It's got a few chuckles, but Thunder Force is largely a superhero comedy that's neither exciting nor funny -- and an egregious waste of its co-stars' talents. Read critic reviews
With a boring story and a low laugh-to-joke ratio, Thunder Force is likely to leave you wishing you'd watched any of the talented cast members' numerous better films. Read audience reviews
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Critic Reviews for Thunder Force
All Critics (121) | Top Critics (36) | Fresh (28) | Rotten (93)
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McCarthy here is tasked with fighting off a band of cosmically enhanced criminals wreaking havoc on Chicago, but the bigger challenge is how to wring any comedy from Falcone's supernaturally unfunny script.
April 14, 2021 | Rating: 1/5 | Full Review… -
Why does Melissa McCarthy keep making movies with her husband?... I love my husband and would enjoy working with him, but I'm not going to make terrible movies just to make that happen.
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Thunder Force might help illustrate why there are so few pure superhero comedy movies... It's almost as if being a superhero is hard, but being funny is much harder.
April 12, 2021 | Full Review… -
It's a straightforward stint from actors whose version of phoning it in makes us like them more, not less. That's something.
April 12, 2021 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… -
Thunder Force illustrates what happens when filmmakers take a moderately interesting premise and surround it with witless writing, cringe-inducing acting, stagnant action, humor-deprived comedy, and feckless drama.
April 12, 2021 | Rating: 1/4 | Full Review… -
Through too much of Thunder Force, McCarthy makes do with dialogue and situations that are serviceable at best.
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Audience Reviews for Thunder Force
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4d agoA few moments of brilliant hilarity can't overcome the far more numerous attempts that fall flat. The flow/story/editing choices often make little sense.Ed K Super Reviewer
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Apr 12, 2021I feel like we were just here a matter of months ago, another aimless Melissa McCarthy comedy vehicle written and directed by her husband and chief enabler, Ben Falcone. With Thunder Force, McCarthy becomes an accidental superhero and that premise should be enough with this star to power a silly and amusing 90 minutes of entertainment. Once again it's a dispiriting comedy that feels like it's just sitting around and waiting for the performers to find something funny in their scenes and family-friendly improv ramblings. The energy of this movie is completely slack, and scenes feel adrift, lacking proper direction or purpose. The whole movie feels gassed and grasping. It takes 45 minutes for McCarthy to train to be a hero and sometimes there just aren't jokes. Take one instance where McCarthy literally throws a bus, a point strangely referred to multiple times earlier as a setup for this long-desired moment, and then under Falcone's uninspired direction we don't even see the messy results. We don't even see the bus crashing into, like, an orphanage or something that would provide an actual punchline. The comedy malpractice can be staggering. It's the kind of movie that resorts to characterization where everything is clumsily reported to us, like, "You've always been this way since..." The chemistry between McCarthy and Octavia Spencer (The Witches) is lukewarm at best for these longtime friends. The buddy comedy doesn't even seem like it was developed beyond its initial pitch. The shining light of this movie is easily Jason Bateman (Ozark), who plays a crab-armed mutant criminal that becomes an improbable romantic suitor for McCarthy's character. If there is anything that made me laugh, it was related to this character (and an ordinary henchman named Andrew who may or may not be targeted as the next to get killed by his evil boss played by Bobby Cannavale). I even loved the simple image of Bateman crab walking off screen with his arms in the air. The sheer weirdness is enough to make you realize what potential could have been tapped with this super premise and with McCarthy, who can be so charming and disarming when she gives into her odd impulses. Just give me a full movie where a middle-aged superwoman tries to make a relationship with a crab-man super villain work. I wish that Thunder Force had more courage to chase its weird rather than settle, time and again, as an action comedy that is middling with its action and middling with its comedy. I think I had more fun with 2020's Super Intelligence, another mediocre Falcone collaboration. Nate's Grade: CNate Z Super Reviewer
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