by Dai » Mon Dec 09, 2019 5:51 pm
Hmm. Looks like a Stranger Things movie aimed at kids. I feel like my opinion of this one is going to be as out of step with the general internet nerd consensus as it was with the 2016 movie. Aside from its sometimes weak lapses into juvenile humour, that one felt like a true update of the series: a story of a bunch of misfits going into business and getting in over their heads. It was the most fun I'd had in the cinema in years.
This one looks like a decent kids' movie, but its links to the original have a calculated air of weaponised nostalgia that feels very JJ Abrams. I'm also not getting any sense of humour from it yet, though that could easily just be a trailer issue. It's giving me that vibe of being overly reverential in the way that held The Force Awakens back.