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The New Mutants

So five years after the trailer and two years after release I finally watched this (on Disney+.)

The long awaited verdict: It's not very good. It looks like a pilot for a tv show rather than a movie. The characters spend the first half just sitting around a drab looking building telling each other their backstories in the most straightforward way possible. Danni Moonstar is kind of the lead character but she's played by the weakest actress and is pretty dull. Every character is just one thing only; Cannonball is a miner who only ever talks about mining and carries around a LUMP OF COAL. Sunspot is horny. Anya Taylor-Joy as Illyana SHOULD be great but they have her act like a racist mean girl for most of it and barely touch on the fact that she grew up in Hell. It gets a bit better once they start using their powers and stuff but the horror isn't very scary and most other X-Men movies had more thrilling superhero stuff so what's the point, really? It's probably not the worst X-Men movie though! It isn't actually actively terrible or anything, it just doesn't do anything interesting.

There's a bit where they're wathcing Buffy's 'Hush' on tv which is a huge mistake as it just reminds you how much better that 20 year old episode of tv was than this modern movie.
 
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