Thunder Force Fails to Bring the Thunder
Thunder Force brings much-needed diversity to the superhero genre. Unfortunately, it's also an uninteresting and unfunny mess.

They're lads, so you've every expectation that they like to spend their time kicking a ball about and playing dirty on the pitch; but you don't need to be much of an expert to realise that it's balls of a very different nature that these fellas are interested in. As becomes very apparent right from the off, the likes of Nils Angelson and Pierre Rubberax are Face Down, Ass Up & Available. This result is a top-level suck and fuck fest that will have gay fans reaching for the tissues in no time, with dicks being downed one after another in the quest for the next sexual high. All of which soon results in a final whistle of sticky ball brew being creamed for everyone to savour and enjoy.
Thunder Force brings much-needed diversity to the superhero genre. Unfortunately, it's also an uninteresting and unfunny mess.
A film about family and sacrifice... and carnivorous locusts coming after you.
The social issues The Half of it takes on are handled well, between the antagonization brought on to Ellie for her race and the conflict that arises from her being gay. Both aspects of her character are built up over the course of the film and don’t seem abrupt or rushed. The film shows racism towards Ellie and her and father in varying levels, from having her schoolmates specifically address her as "Chinese girl” to the fore mentioned way her Dad is treated due to language barriers. The same can be said about Ellie being a lesbian. While she never truly “comes out” in the narrative, that does not undermine her journey of self-discovery from being meaningful. These ideas aren’t thrust upon the viewer in a preachy manor, the scenarios that occur feel believable given the rural setting. The film presents watchers with problems whom those like Ellie may face, and leaves us to sit with them and reflect.
Eddington attempts to capture how media is intertwined with the uncomfortable present.
Adventure Time, Legend of Korra, Steven Universe, The Loud House, The Hollow, OK-K.O.! Let’s Be Heroes, The Dragon Prince, etc!
Fire Island is the more inclusive film of the two with the bi-phobic definition of pansexuality in The Thing About Harry and its obvious lack of colour on screen