Unfortunately, outside of the odd bit of jocularity between the troops there’s precious little character or relationship development between anyone other than Nelson and Dostum. Instead, the soldiers are given, at best, a distinguishing trait: there’s the funny one (Michael Pena), the one with nice hair, guy with glasses, guy that befriends a local boy and so on.
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Paddington 2’s most endearing quality is its tone, which stays refreshingly lighthearted from start to finish. Paddington’s unwavering kindness in the face of any and all circumstances somehow never feels forced or hokey. It’s just who he is, who he always is, and even among modern “family fare” that’s pretty different.
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Father Figures somehow manages to last the better part of two hours without delivering anything of substance. The plot basically transitions from one comedic sketch to the next, and despite some parts that are fun in the moment you’re destined to forget the film as soon as you’re done watching.
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There are too many half-baked ideas in Downsizing with potentially interesting sub-topics, like the effect of people shrinking cutting away at demand and hurting the economy or whether the small should continue to share the same voting rights, introduced and summarily dropped. Why add the social commentary if you’re going to continually brush it aside?
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It was important that Justice League produced a new star for the franchise, and Miller is the one. He gets to be a “fan boy” in the same way the rebooted Spiderman is for Avengers, cracking jokes and basically saying the type of stuff a normal person pressed into extraordinary circumstances would.
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For an adaptation of a character that could fundamentally be described as “female Indiana Jones,” Lara spends a lot of time around her mansion, and the lack of globetrotting hurts the feeling of this being a grand adventure.
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Sometimes adding more characters dilutes a successful formula, but Lithgow and Gibson both bring something to the table. They’re complete opposites of one another — Lithgow as the doting father and Gibson as the gruff man’s man — and do well in their roles. It’s easy to forget after so much happened off screen that Gibson was a funny guy.
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