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How may reviews for Superman movies does the world need? It needs ours and that’s about it. Everyone else can go back to Krypton. Yes, we sat down and finally watched James Gunn’s Superman[2025]. We figured we didn’t want to place it in the list of movies we’d watch when we get around to a theme episode sometime.
If you’ve existed in Western pop culture, you know the basics. Alien from Krypton, many many powers, raised in Kansas, and fights villains. Some differences here are that Papa Kent is alive and both the Kents are lobotomized boomers who can’t operate a phone. Louis Lane is obnoxious, maybe that’s closer to the source material, and Clark is stupid. That’s okay though because everyone else has drank from the dipshit fountain so they’re all operating at thirty points below average anyway.
Next up is Tim with Simply Irresistible(1999). Sarah Michelle Gellar did a movie that wasn’t Cruel Intentions nor Scooby Doo. This is that movie. She’s a restaurateur who’s failing since her mom died. She either gets visited by a guardian angel, or maybe channels her dead mom via the earrings, or maybe a magic crab, or she already had the talent in her all along. The talent is to make magical dishes that contain her emotions and get the notice of her love interest.
Weltall then has Dust Bunny[2025]. There’s a little girl Aurora who’s scared of a monster under her bed. Her parents ignore her, as they should, but she’s not sold on just going to sleep. She runs across Mads Miklelsen and witnesses him slaying a dragon. She doesn’t notice it’s him fighting a bunch of men who were in a dragon costume for a festival. She hires him to take out the monster under her bed which he agrees to because Mads is many things but not a heartless bastard.
