The controversy:

It was mostly very entertaining - and it made me laugh plenty
More than I expected

THis was a very joyless review

The movie succeeds on its own terms - more than most can say

Glenn Kenny nails it for me

Yup. I watched it over the weekend and had the same thoughts. They could have cut 20 min from this and it would have been a ton better. The first scene with him and his ex wife dragged, along with the kid part too. Also, some of the characters could have been a little better (Guan Yin could have been way funnier), but…

It was Colonel Ventor, in the Waterworks, with the Iron! He’s the one who killed Marvin Gardens!

“Colonel Ventor” sounds like a character in a Monopoly-branded Clue game, or a space in a Clue-branded Monopoly game.

It wasn’t C- bad. I actually made it through this on my couch in a single sitting - and I can’t do that with most tv shows. It has some really fun Groundhog Day delights, some pretty neat gore, and it’s nice to see Senor Chang in anything.

The “’80s lunchbox nostalgia” sounds lame but credit where it is due, “Colonel Ventor” is a superb 80s villain name. I’m thinking Brian Dennehy, no beard but full mustache.

*BINGO*

The problem is, the first half of the movie is so misogynistic the connection feels beyond eerie.

too soon?

Funny. I call my nephew Oompa-Loompa anytime he shows his hands in a pic. :)

Is no one going to call bullshit on them using the same name for their parody Avengers team as Rick & Morty?

With special guest star Lorne Greene!

I wish we could get some WILTY over here. (It’s on YouTube, but not reliably.) Bob Mortimer’s stories alone...

Have you ever seen Saxondale? I have been amused by some of Coogan’s characters and shows, but a lot of them can be exhausting. I really enjoyed Saxondale, though, it felt different from most of his other characters. Tommy Saxondale has an ego and an anger problem, but he’s a middle-aged exterminator whose glory days…

Batarangs, how do they work?

Megan Ganz is currently the only consistently great writer on Sunny.

i’m not a goon!

Dee is a goon! It works!

can i just say i’ve watched the “always sunny” noir episode “the janitor always mops twice” several times & it never doesn’t make me happy.