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Adèle is not supposed to be a sulty hot seductress. She's the older cousin you fear, because you know if you don't behave you really are in trouble. Where's that scoul we love? I gave it 2 stars because 1 seemed too little. Then again 2 might be too generous. I might go back and change it. Stay in your lane Luc Besson. You're not as great as you think you are.

I did not get that this is supposed to be a Valerian and Laureline adaption for most of the movie. The characters are so removed from the original.

They are written in a completely unrealistic way. Major Valerian is a floundering millennial dork who somehow managed to bed hundreds of women.

Sergeant Laureline outranks the major because of her grrl power, and is constantly giving him orders. She spends the whole movie emasculating Valerian, but for some reason is also in a relationship with him. No points for guessing who initiates relations there.

Why did they even bother to pay for the license? If they just changed the names viewers would have found some details inspired by the book, but no one would have said it was stolen. It's just not thte same.

This type of movie makes me so sad because I realise the original is now dead and will never make it to the big screen in proper form.

This movie has created a need for a new ratings system. IMDb please consider this.