All the promising humor potential of deadpan Bill Murray and Adam Driver facing down zombies is unfortunately negated by the desperately unfunny scenes of zombies gasping for “chardonnay” and “coffee”

McKinnon’s eyes don’t crazily bug out enough for her to be convincing in this role

Atwood said in an interview many years ago that her inspiration for Handmaid’s Tale was a trip to Afghanistan in the late 70s.

To qualify as a “joke”, you need humor, wit and entertainment value, something sorely lacking with this “prank”.

My wife drives a red 2011 Camry, of which they made roughly 4 billion. I occasionally drive it and in crowded parking lots I have attempted to get into a stranger’s identical Camry any number of times.

Yep. I did the exact same thing with an 80s era K-car key. A bit dickish on my part I’ll admit, because we barely knew the guy who’s car we (drunkenly) moved and hid several blocks away, and I never even found out how long it took him to find it. It just seemed like the thing to do at the time, i.e., 2 am and coming…

“As author Margaret Atwood has explained, there’s nothing in the novel that hasn’t actually happened to women somewhere in the world.”

Well, she acts in a series that condemns conservative Christianity as a controlling extremist cult, while being herself a member of a controlling extremist cult. Kind of hypocritical and problematic to say the least. To borrow your analogy, it would be more like having an active and enthusiastic Nazi playing a victim…

Not at all a bad looking car, but I can’t see them actually bringing it here. When Peugeot does finally return to the US they’ll focus on selling generic-looking CUVs just like everyone else...

Didn’t she move out of the Bronx to some white-collar middle-class suburb when she was like, 4 years old or something?

Nope. Haven’t seen it. But I’m saying setting the story from the novel in a contemporary context wouldn’t work that well, and the review states that key plot points from the book aren’t changed in the film.

It remains relevant, yes, but in a modern context, not the drastically more extreme racial dynamics of 1940. Key plot points in the novel would not play out the same today.

That’s a lot of non-existent subtext to extrapolate from a comment that asserts none of those things.

Pretty much what I was thinking. This story doesn’t work at all in a modern-day context.

So, ditch the Focus because Americans don’t want cars, then morph the Escape into...a car?

Nice nod to the opening scene of the original Night of the Living Dead, with the mid-60's Pontiac coupe driving down the country road

Like, all of them after 1986 or so...

“(Soros!)“

They already did. It’s called The Hunger Games.

Nah, watch both. They’re each great in their own ways.