The theaters are still pretty barren since July’s Barbenheimer extravaganza, so I settled for some limited at-home viewings.
Susie Searches – Yes, I’ve seen this one before, but this time I made my sister watch it! Stylistically it still reminds me a lot of The Kid Detective, and there is a mystery to be solved here, too. What strikes me most about this re-watch was how the plot played out. A kidnapped college student very quickly gets found and almost immediately after you learn who did it. Then there’s still over an hour of the film left! That’s like the exact opposite of about 95 percent of films like this out there today. Instead, we have to see the culprit work through keeping everything bottled up tight. My sister didn’t love it as much as I’d thought and hoped she would but didn’t have any regrets watching it. While it is a mystery, there were still plenty of laughs along the way.
They Cloned Tyrone – I really wanted to like this movie! The trailer was interesting, the premise sounded both mystifying and funny, and while overall it was fine, I just didn’t really feel it like I thought I would. In a rough neighborhood know as the Glen, Fontaine gets mixed up in some beef and winds up dead. Only, he shows up to collect at Slick Charles’ house again the very next day! Charles is shook, Fontaine doesn’t believe him, and Yo-Yo gets looped in when all she really wants is to be out and down in Memphis. In light of trying to find out what in the hell actually happened to Fontaine, they instead discover a sci-fi adjacent lab experiment happening that I couldn’t help but think of Get Out when the whole scheme was finally revealed. There were moments that I laughed, but this wasn’t a film that really held my interest. Still, very original with a great cast trying to keep everything in line. You could certainly do a lot worse as far as Netflix offerings go.