Quick review:
This was fun. Don't expect anything deep. It's for a Nickelodeon audience, and even has a laugh track.
Addison Riecke, who plays the younger sister Laser Girl, has grown (she is 20) and filled out nicely. She looks cute enough in her tight costume, although she is not nearly as hot as Kira Kosarin.
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There is one supervillainess, and she is mildly cute: She-Crab, portrayed by actress Brittany Bardwell. I would assume that she is the one nod to 'diversity hiring' in the cast, because her father (the villain King Crab from the original series) is definitely not black. She had potential as a airhead character who talks almost entirely in 'zoomer-speak' (she reminds me a bit of Zari from Legends of Tomorrow) but it's wasted by her terrible costume. It's obvious they didn't think very hard about new costuming beyond the standard Thundermans uniforms.
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Phoebe (Kira Kosarin) is in costume quite a lot. In the opening battle scene, and then liberally sprinkled throughout the movie.
In the climactic battle scene, there are some great views of Kira in the costume from many different angles.
Here's a good example!
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By 36:00, Phoebe and Max are tied up and held captive by the villains.
By 38:00, they're in peril in a torture chamber in the villain's lair - the scenario makes fun of the idea of torturing the superhero, which is amusing
(for example, one of the tortures for Phoebe is "Max's old gym socks".)
However, when the scene switches back to the lair again, the peril has suddenly become serious: their see-thru prison is filling up slowly with liquid mercury which will take 12 minutes to suffocate them. Seems like a unique peril. Not even Adam West or Jim Weathers thought of that one!
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When they finally figure out a way out of the mercury trap, they go from the frying pan into the fire when the villains have rigged their lair to blow up with Phoebe and Max inside. The iron doors of the lair locking them in is hilarious.
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Anyway, Thundermans to the rescue!
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Overall, I have to give this a thumbs-up. It has all the components of a superhero film, it's campy and funny, and there are hot heroines in it.
Plus absolutely no injected intersectional claptrap agenda. Recommended to watch one for a fun time.
Plus, the ending points to a sequel in which their little bunny mascot, Dr. Colosso, gets back into the supervillain game. Hoping for another one!
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