Maeve43

This is the first time I wished an MCU movie was longer. I need this movie, what a palate cleanser. Marvel made a fantastic decision when they cast Flo as Yelena. She is her character, so much heart and emotion and she uses it so phenomenally to portray the loss and darkness Yelena has inside her that was not her fault. Brava! I was very happy to see the much needed fall of a not needed character, no spoilers here, they were way overhyped and way underutilized in an earlier movie, and quickly dispatched here in a very necessary minor course correction. It was a very slow and painful start after Endgame, (I still haven't seen Brave New World. The whole idea just didn't appeal to me and I was the biggest MCU fangirl of them all.) but I feel that with Thunderbolts*, Marvel may be back on an upswing. Here's to hoping, although I'm not that happy Kang had to be scrapped in favor of RDJ as Doom. I love Robert, but he did his time, all the main ones did, and we need the new blood to get us excited about what's coming now. Again, complete love and applause to Thunderbolts* for giving us a down to earth, back to basics movie with heart and practical effects and minimal useless hype and fluff. Go see it!

I want to start off by saying that when the MCU first took off my family were always first in line for every movie, and we stayed until the house lights came up. My youngest used to get mad and yell at people when they left before the stingers. Then Avengers Endgame came and we had the loud, large, raucous ending we had waited for for 11 years. And oh my it was a truly sad but satisfactory ending. Marvel dialed things back after that, but not enough. They were still trying too hard to reach Endgame levels. You can't top that. Nothing will ever be able to top that, and because they kept trying, almost everything except No Way Home, WandaVision, Loki and GotG3 has been just "eh" or in Quantumania and Secret Invasions' case, very extremely sub-par. The Marvels was a decent movie, I didn't hate it, but again, still trying too hard. We're done with it all connecting. I don't have the mental energy for that road again. But here comes Madame Webb. This movie is not a 10, not even an 8, but it's WAY better than some others are saying it is. It was nice to just watch a singular movie. There is a low key nod to the Spider-Man universe, did you catch it? No, this movie won't win any awards, it isn't full of over the top CGI fights and robots and tech, but it was not bad at all. We enjoyed it. I paid full price for tickets and don't regret it. Will I watch it again? Of course, when it hits streaming. It's a perfectly good way to spend a weekend afternoon. All four leading ladies did very nice jobs with what they were given to work with, and if there's a sequel, I'll go see that as well.

I love the first movie. It is corny and grand and zany and heartwarming and yes I definitely tear up at the end. The original is a staple replay at Halloween. It is perfection. So why did they make this movie? I have nothing at all against Bette or Kathy or SJP, but I don't understand why they agreed to do this. This movie wasn't horrible terrible, but it wasn't good either. I have nothing bad to say about the young newcomers, this was not their fault. The story was just meh, but the writing was gawd awful. The jokes all felt forced and largely fell flat. The one bright light in this half a$$ed mess of an updated "sequel" was the young actress who played a younger Winifred. Taylor Henderson did a bang up job of doing Bette as Winifred and she is the main thing I remember about this movie. Only watched it the one time, and I'll most likely never watch it again.