Sentences with phrase «fun superhero movie»

At its worst, it's just another fun superhero movie.

«Green Lantern» has many of the trappings of a silly fun superhero movie.

Then, Jon Favreau's original Iron Man screened, a fun superhero movie that manages to kind of fall apart because the main villain doesn't make sense.

Not exact matches

He crafted a superhero story that goes through the standard motions of an origin story while also managing to be a fun heist movie with great performances by Paul Rudd and Michael Douglas.

From pop culture references to callbacks to other Marvel movies, the newest superhero addition has some fun details that fans might not have picked up on.

After all at the end of the day, isn't a superhero movie supposed to be about men and women in tights having fun, saving the world kicking a whole lot of ass doing so?

Director Ryan Coogler and co-screenwriter Joe Robert Cole tackle the superheroes of colour question with this surreal and uproarious movie version of Marvel's Black Panther legend, in which the sheer enjoyment of everyone involved pumps the movie with fun.

While it's not a perfect film by any means — a lack of catchy musical numbers and a questionable shift of focus in the film's latter half knock Megamind down a few pegs — the lively cast and interesting flip on the superhero concept make it a fun time at the movies for viewers of all ages.

After watching angst - filled movies like Logan and Batman v Superman, it's oddly relaxing and rewarding to see superheroes have brightly colored fun.

It's a movie that wants to have a little more fun with the genre, and it succeeds, even if it never really veers far from an increasingly familiar conventions of the superhero movie.

Though it is itself a superhero movie, «Deadpool» and its sequel are full of meta - jokes that make fun of other superhero movies.

The director even goes so far as to incorporate imagery cues from the superhero genre (the Superman parallels are hard to miss) and on the whole, the movie has hints of a director who can do some fun things with a big canvas - even if he stills needs some practice with the brushstrokes.

Well I saw it, it was fun... like someone else said I felt like you just werent meant to take it as seriously as other superhero movies like TDK.

I never thought the day will come when I say that «Batman & Robin» is no longer the worse superhero movie ever made after seeing this movie, but the difference between the two is that at least Batman & Robin was fun to watch and wasn't depressing and dull that Fant4stic was.

This is a movie that knows exactly what it wants to do — to poke fun at the deathly serious tone and the assorted clichés that have become common within superhero movies.

The fun here is in the little moments the actors find, and in the way that Waititi, within the massive machine that is a studio superhero movie, brings out a looseness and playfulness in the performances.

It's a B - superhero movie that's just lighthearted fun.

What's missing is a sense of the sheer fun in movie - making that can energize a project like this, even one that might have more at stake than the usual superhero fare.

Quick, someone call for a «dark» super-vigilante who walks around with even more super emotional problems, we've got to stop director Michel Gondry and actor / co-writer Seth Rogen — they've made a superhero movie that actually dares to have some damn fun fighting bad guys.

That sense of superhero fun and flat - out action that director Jon Favreau brings to the movie?

Mr. Fantastic, The Invisible Woman, The Human Torch, and The Thing are back on the big screen in Marvel's Fantastic Four starring Miles Teller, Michael B. Jordan, Kate Mara, and Jamie Bell, Is this movie a fun and entertaining contemporary re-imagining of the classic superheroes, or is it just a craptastic reboot?

Praised for everything from the representation of race in a superhero movie to Black Panther «s mix of fun and story, Coogler appears to have raised the bar.

There are 18 easy choices, but it would be a lot more fun to look outside the Marvel universe for inspiration... and then tie those movies to the superheroes that will probably die in Infinity War.

One of Deadpool's main schticks is making fun of other superhero movies, so it was probably inevitable that at some point the Merc with a Mouth would make fun of last year's Justice League.

Iron Man 2 really plays like a fun, imperfect superhero movie that was burdened by the road ahead.

That all changes in the final skirmish and during parts of the climactic heist, in which director Peyton Reed uses the concept of relative size to poke fun of the notion of a large - scale destruction — a common staple in these superhero movies.

It's wrong - headed from the get, a giant f*ck you to both the idea of narrative consistency and the audience for having the temerity to expect a superhero movie — a genre about people with fantastical powers flying around and saving the world — to be any fun at all.

Civil War further benefits from including several fun interactions between the movie's various superhero characters, with the dynamics between Scarlet Witch / Vision and Bucky / Sam Wilson a.k.a. Falcon (Anthony Mackie) among the highlights - while Natasha Romanoff / Black Widow's (Scarlett Johansson) tendency to shift allegiances makes the scenes between her and both Steve / Tony all the more interesting for it.

Some of the fun of the first Guardians was the way it rather audaciously subverted a lot of superhero movie tropes, down to Peter Quill challenging Ronan to a dance - off.

22 Jump Street is at its best when it's just letting itself have a lot of fun, with Tatum once again stealing the entire show with his sincere but dim - witted Jenko making great use of his superhero physical presence and abilities and his incredible, sincere reactions over the course of the movie — his response to finding out the true identity of the woman that Hill's Schmidt slept with is far and away the highlight of the movie and brought my theater down.

Highly entertaining and responsible for giving Ryan Reynolds his true star making moment we've all been waiting for, Deadpool is a quick - fire burst of fresh air in a world of kid friendly superhero films that upon closer inspection isn't much more than a fun time out at the movies.

Kenneth Branagh directs this fun Marvel superhero movie about a Norse god (Chris Hemsworth) who's banished to Earth, where he meets a conveniently single scientist (Natalie Portman).

Extravagant special effects are taken for granted in superhero movies, but Ant - Man has enough imagination to make them seem both fun and necessary, whether it's during a scene where the shrunken Lang finds himself dodging Lucite heels on a dance floor or in a psychedelic, space - folding sequence set in the Microverse, the dimension of the sub-atomically small.

Viewed today, Tim Burton's Batman, the runaway # 1 film of 1989, is silly at times (particularly when utilizing original songs by Prince), but it unquestionably kept the superhero movie alive, bridging the genre's gap between the diminishing returns of the Christopher Reeve Superman series» good - natured fun and the Spider - Man - led revival of the early 21st century.

Anyway, now that we know Marvel is making a Doctor Strange movie, we can move on to the most fun part of all superhero news: casting rumors.

Not only does it bring together superheroes from other Marvel Comics movies like Iron Man, The Hulk, Captain America and Thor, but it is a genuinely great and fun movie made by a guy who understands the characters and how to craft a good story.

Kick - Ass 2 takes on the same formula of violence, extremely foul language, and sexual innuendos that go beyond your usual superhero movie, but where the first movie was fun and witty, Kick - Ass 2 takes on a more conventional approach to the storyline.

Ryan Coogler has harnessed the superhero movie — and a really fun one!

And as 2016's Deadpool made clear, the greatest of those powers may be his complete self - awareness: The majority of jokes in Deadpool were focused on flaying the titular hero and the superhero industrial complex, whether that meant poking fun at Reynolds's career and Fox's run of bad superhero movies or inserting raunchy one - liners and superfluous gore into the movie's big action sequences in order to earn its rare - for - the - genre R rating.

Ryan Reynolds is back to make fun of the business of superhero movies in hilarious sequel to 2016 smash

True, the movie has some fun with Deadpool's relationship with second - string X-Men like Colossus, who steals scenes as an incongruously gentlemanly and paternal metal monster man, and Negasonic Teenage Warhead, yet another sullen little girl equally at home texting or destroying men and monsters ten times her size, but it doesn't exactly reinvent the superhero movie.

You don't expect any less than that from Raimi, whose record - setting Spider - Man trilogy put more fun into the superhero movie than anything else between 1978's Superman and The Avengers.

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The presumptuously titled Captain Underpants: The First Epic Movie, based on Dav Pilkey's first four children's books in the Captain Underpants series (all of which have amusingly lengthy titles themselves), pokes a lot of fun at the concept of superheroes, the concept of action movies and the very cinematic medium in which it's found itself.

Thus far, critics are hailing the Ryan Coogler - directed superhero movie as fun, funny, and socially relevant cinema.

Most superhero movies build up to the climactic battle where the superhero must defeat the bad guy in the end, and there's plenty of that in Thor: Ragnarok, but it's pure fun in the process.

From mocking other superheroes and their movies to having some fun at his own expense, Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds) will say anything to get a laugh.

This has been a banner year for superhero movies and the ones that have been most satisfying have been those that threw out the rulebooks of their predecessors: Logan giving us a dark, bitter, aging R - rated Wolverine, Ragnarok ditching Shakespearean brood to mine Thor and company for sheer exhilarating fun, The Lego Batman Movie applying the irreverent comedy treatment to Gotham City lore.

But as an action movie that throws back to a time when action movies didn't also have to be superheroes or revenge thrillers, The Hitman's Bodyguard is brainless, dumb - fun escapism as its stupid best.

«It's glossy, fun, upbeat and plays well in summer when people are tired of the superhero movies.