‘Thunder Force’ Review: Melissa McCarthy and Octavia Spencer Need More Silly in Superhero Comedy

Thunder-Force-2021-movie-posters/”>Thunder Force” is nearly half over before the action-comedy lands on a real joke: the introduction of co-star Jason Bateman as a half-superhero mutant with crab arms instead of human appendages.

Jokes aside, Bateman’s “The Crab” also makes for a good foil to the eponymous Thunder Force, a pair of unexpected crime fighters who have emerged to battle the supervillain crime wave that has consumed the world since their childhood.

They need all the help (or hurt) they can get.Melissa McCarthy as lovable loser Lydia (Aka The Hammer) and Octavia Spencer as her super-smart former Bff Emily (Aka Bingo) are only on their first mission when they meet The Crab, and their do-gooding is soon upended by the career criminals they’re intent on stopping.

And then, suddenly, weirdly, Lydia and The Crab connect, kicking off a dream sequence in which these two outsiders dance and twirl and

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