Pure joy and fun, and deserving of a much higher grade. Guardians 2 is one of the rare incidences of the filmmaker being confident in his talents, his team, and his audience, and of the studio encouraging it to happen. Contrast with the dismal dire drag DC failures (line 'em up and knock 'em down, from Watchmen to…

It took me a LONG time to realize how brilliant Jonad is. And it's been fascinating to see him turn from an unlikable character in season 1 to someone I crave to love to hate and still feel sorry for later. It's rich, Ricky Gervais "Office" territory, and very difficult to pull off.

Good point. Perhaps what's missing is the "horror" of the perfection of everyone's incompetence. When, in the Oval Office, there's so much at stake, the comedy hits harder?

Hoping it was just all the needs to set up the new dynamic, and that the funny will cascade soon.

First, it's great to see good reviewing back on the AV club, taking care of the best ensemble cast on TV. Analysis wrapped around recap, all thoughtful and interesting. Thanks! Next, as Veep enters new territory — the denouement of a public figure and being away from the White House — it's going to be tough to…

Whoa. Fame, not money. 1970's TV salaries, before cable, home video, YouTube and other venues, wasn't that much, especially for kids in small roles. (Henry Winkler and Ron Howard made a bundle, but they were carrying the show, esp. Winkler). Residuals for reruns lasted maybe 3 or 4 cycles. So yeah, she made more…

Would be more into this show if Pete had some great jokes buried in there somewhere that occasionally sneaked out. Unless the point of the series is for him to fail?

I'm guessing Jim Norton wasn't heading into the club to pay his lap dance
debt.

It did. Meteor storm, at the beginning.

Me. Liked it. A lot, even though have been "told" not to.

Why is creepiness a bad thing, especially if it's the initial reaction, and conditional upon: ? A) space loneliness and near-suicidal depression due to a corporate malfunction / B) said weakness of individual causes him to do the "unthinkable" in order to find some real human contact (not necessarily sexual, even if…

Well, caught up and then moralized, sans critical discussion, of the ethical implications. To me the reviews show the ugly power of PC over controversy. Passengers CAN entertain as well as raise issues (and for many of us that is what helps make it entertaining).

Agree with a lot of what you said, mainly agreeing that the movie is way better than critics and those with a social agenda to foist upon it, ignoring some of the larger, less cut and dried moral conundrums, have been saying.

Also, very Dr. Zachary Smith from Lost in Space!

All really good points. I came to this Spoiler Space because I genuinely like the movie and am pleased to see discussions going beyond hot button or knee-jerk PC or sexual politics, and more into the conundrums that go beyond the popcorn fare of sexual — more into human loneliness and desperation, the idea of fate…

I enjoyed it as well, and still do weeks later. It seems much more about human connection than sex, but….JLaw (!). Had the script not had Pratt happen upon his platonic ideal of Sleeping Beauty, I could have seen scenes where he "computer dated" various passengers' dossiers, or even had the ship computer help him. …

GREAT thought! Of course, unsaid in the script, it's just conjecture, but I liked the movie and am just fine with defending it. (Wondering, how does one, then two people, impact the food stores on the ship, knowing that likely six square meals are provided per day for 85 or so years?)

Yeah. Way too much of sexual politics in glossing what is basically a Space Opera Romance. JLaw's character was damn pragmatic, and letting Pratt go would not only maroon her, but deny her the ability to have someone to help keep the ship running when the next inevitable malfunction occurs. IF she could figure out…

No choice, and sorry. AV club keeps bumping and requiring re-signing in. Has been doing so for years, and it's a huge problem. So I tried Disqus, which is more versatile across sites, but won't allow a linear crossover/move of AV account. After trying a few minutes to delete one of the double comments, I said…

I admit in front of Gawd and all of you that I enjoyed the movie. I can't hide it any longer. Expectations, thanks to reviews (which I don't read before seeing, but noted the B- to D- 's), were very low going in, and the movie exceeded them. I expected neither 2001's still unparalleled genius and scientific…