Cringe

Rating: 6/10 (29 December 2018)

So I actually enjoyed the movie overall as in, I was entertained but probably the wrong reasons. I never laughed at the clearly intentionally placed jokes because they almost always fell flat and laughed out loud at scenes that were clearly not meant to be funny but felt so overdone that they slipped into the ridiculous and felt like a superhero spoof movie (giant black manta helmet, cliche slow motion shots with hair blowing in the wind and longing looks, eating a rose, cringy kissing scene... Really, it was hilarious and I was waiting for Charlie Sheen and Leslie Nilson to turn up at any moment)
At times it felt like a text book rundown of every stylistic means from 'introduction to movie making 101' ca. 1985.
The other thing that bothered me was that they clearly 'borrowed' whole scenes and lines from other movies which I noticed a few times and it kind of ruined it for me. I mean there was an entire chase scene completely ripped off Independence Day... just saying