The sextuplets attend a high school class reunion. There, they see all their former classmates who have become "proper" adults with company jobs. The sextuplets sulk about this and go home and drink until they fall asleep. But when they wake up, a certain scene awaits them.
Youichi Fujita
Director
Takahiro Sakurai
Osomatsu Matsuno (voice)
Yuichi Nakamura
Karamatsu Matsuno (voice)
Hiroshi Kamiya
Choromatsu Matsuno (voice)
Jun Fukuyama
Ichimatsu Matsuno (voice)
Daisuke Ono
Juushimatsu Matsuno (voice)
Miyu Irino
Todomatsu Matsuno (voice)
Kenichi Suzumura
Iyami (voice)
Sachi Kokuryu
Chibita (voice)
Aya Endo
Totoko Yowai (voice)
Nobuo Tobita
Dayon (voice)
Yoji Ueda
Dekapan (voice)
Ultra-violent storytelling has never been my thing, but the issues with Scarface go beyond that. The film perpetuates harmful stereotypes about Latinx immigrants and uses gore and misogyny for shock value that never serves any purpose. The whole venture is frustratingly empty, and left me desiring something more.
As this critic continues to look back at some of this Summer's films I have taken in, I would be remiss if I didn't mention one of the most overall unsettling trends in Hollywood over the last several years.....sequels, reboots, and remakes. Look, I am all for seeing more than one film for certain originals that made a splash, ie: "Jurassic Park", "Pirates of the Caribbean", "Transformers", etc.
Netflix's Afterlife of the Party might fall into the rom-com genre, but it's much more about grief, strong female friendships, and platonic love than it is about romance.
It’s not often in America that you turn on the TV and see a show or a movie with a Muslim protagonist. And when they do, they're usually a negative stereotype. Ms. Marvel changes all of that.
In this short film, writer/director Nikita Hattangady focuses on Jai, a starving artist rooted in the latter category. Though unhoused, he works hard.