3 glaring flaws:
The dwarves look awful. Like somewhere between Robert Zemeckis mocap and a TikTok garden gnome filter.
Gal Gadot is miscast. She is really trying and cannot get there at all.
The new songs are all uniformly out of place and in many cases just bad.
That said, it’s fine. I don’t know if I would go so far to call it good but it is not truly terrible like the twitter reactions for the last two years have…
Goofy, chaotic, maximalist filmmaking with a heart that is simultaneously wholesome and existential—bordering on nihilistic—but ultimately hopeful. I really loved this. Greta Gerwig is 3 for 3!! Margot Robbie and Ryan Gosling are fantastic but Simu Liu and Michael Cera get some of the best moments. Just a blast. Could go up on rewatch when I know what I’m in for. I’m really hoping that it sticks around in awards season beyond the obvious art direction and costume design nominations.
RRR is truly an unhinged, heartfelt treat. Throw any pretenses of logic out the window. At any given moment, the priority of this film is comedy or action thrills or heartfelt emotions. Whichever the focus(es), it has no time for any logic (or laws of physics). It’s bombastic and operatic with a style that blends balletic action choreography, 300 style slowmo, Dynasty Warriors, superhero blockbusters and Hamilton-esque nationalism without seeming particularly derivative of any of these works. It’s a wholly…
