andrew barbarash

Sold on a pack of lies from the marketing and from Kevin Smith himself to get people through the door so to speak. If this came out a decade ago it would be a very different story not drenched in 'woke' identity politics first over creativity and originality. It's the definition of how tone deaf Hollywood is right now at creating diversity successfully in mainstream media. This is the Teela show (that no fan ever asked for) and she's detestable in every single way you could imagine; entitled, overpowered, overly cliché masculine (because women aren't allowed to be feminine anymore) and completely selfish. To elevate diverse/female characters you don't have to emasculate and belittle every male character to do so. Not that male characters matter in this anyway as the three main people are Evil Lynn, Teela and her diverse 'friend'. The one plus is the animation style, it's beautiful to look at, which is shame because the content is so underwhelming.

Style over substance. Hollow, shallow script with an unoriginal plot. So much slow mo and stupid symbolism. A dark and brooding tone does not equate to something necessarily being good or compensates for genuine character depth. The chemistry between the main characters is non existent not because of the actors but the terrible terrible cliché writing. If you like lots of staring deeply in the distance, this is your movie. If you like a multilayered saavy written plot... definitely look elsewhere. A very typical Synder affair.