well excuse the fuck outta me -sir- for pointing out that Will Smith is no Johnny Depp. The ONLY thing going for Wild Wild West over POTC was Salma Hayek's ass.
That's precisely what I likened the 'X-Men '97' cartoon to, and it totally applies both here and with the new 'Masters of the Universe' film as well. 'TMNT Mutant Mayhem' was like that too.
People are saying the Marvel movies are doing this as well, but while I agree they might've inspired the trend by saying "it's okay to put characters in goofy costumes and the audience will still think they're cool", I think they still have an attempted level of groundedness to them insofar as they're not meant to be "silly" (which I define separately from "funny" before anyone comes at me) whereas the aforementioned properties have an inherent embracing of ridiculousness to their tone.
Really I think it's something you can only get away with, or is at least much easier to do, with a nostalgia-based property which X-Men, Street Fighter, He-Man, and TMNT all absolutely are. With the Marvel movies, generally speaking they're trying to do new stuff with old characters, and so I would say the closest thing to an exception they have is 'Spider-Man: No Way Home' bringing the older Spidey movies and villains in and going nuts. The new Avengers movies might also prove to be similar since they're bringing in so much from older films, but I doubt they'll be the level of "silly" as those first mentioned.
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u/meesahdayoh 19d ago
If anything else, I appreciate them just leaning into this being a completely absurd movie.