Reviews

I love the franchise and I'm always a glass half full kind of guy. So.... I liked it, but there's lots I think could have been done better. Not that I know anything, but as a fan I'd have liked some things:

• One of the killers barely has any screen time. We know barely anything about them. It feels like they added them as one of the killers last minute; and I feel like they could've easily fixed this.

• The new cast are decent, I'm a huge fan of Tara and hope she becomes the final girl if the characters continue. I love how I expected her to be the first kill thanks to clever marketing. My one gripe with the new characters is they're so flippant! Even after Tara almost dies, the next day they're all bantering about it. And it carries on - the girl twin even regularly jokes about people probably being dead. It's not the suspense I want from Scream ha. Again I think this could've been easily fixed but maybe it was intentional? Commentary on Gen Z?

• The legacy characters felt very much like an afterthought. I get it wasn't *their* movie though so maybe this isn't a big deal, but we obviously all love them. Maybe the marketing should have not really had much of them to manage expectations as if they're just cameos. Then everything on top turns out to be a bonus.

• I feel like something could have been done to feel different. At one point I thought one of the killers was going to die halfway through (with Dewey in the hospital), and was like wow this is new/finding out one killer then maybe trying to piece together who the other is. Just something fresh. But nah. I know they're sort of remaking the original, but still.

• Lastly, it felt like not many people were killed....? Like... 3??? Only 2 being proper characters.

And I DID enjoy it, so just to balance it - here's some stuff I loved;

• The twins. I'm chuffed they survived, but maybe more gravitas for the girl twin next time ha.

• Wes Hicks, I enjoyed him. I wish he didn't die. I enjoyed his Mom too - that was prob my fav scene.

• Them coming back to Stu's house from the first movie.

• It's probably a good thing one of the legacies died but I'm still gutted by it ha.

• I was glad Randy's sister was back.

All in all it was good, but I think even as a die hard fan I may be realising that if there's no updating the formula - it might be getting a little stale bah.

Booked the day off to see this today as did NOT want to be spoiled ha, and it was totally worth it.

If anyone is curious, and hasn't seen it yet - yep Toby and Andrew are back. Their 'revelation' was actually really cute, and not what I'd expected before going in (still wasn't convinced they were 100% in it - but I did think it might happen when Holland fails to catch MJ, one of the others sweeps in and gets her. Spoiler - they're in way before that). One really nice surprise was the amount of Toby/Andrew we had. It's made me miss them. Their banter was cute af and it was nice to see emotion from their own films being brought into this movie.

One criticism I have, or an unfulfilled wish I suppose - is that I wish we'd have had more insight into their current lives, beyond what we'd seen. We get a hint from Toby that him and MJ are still together but I wanted more ha.

I think as I was watching it I realised it's literally only the audience that this is exciting for; the characters have absolutely no reference to each other so there's a lack of 'surprise' if you like - between each of the SpiderMan/any other character. This could've potentially been resolved by having supporting characters like MJ for Toby or maybe Aunt May for Andrew. Maybe not them, but some way for the characters to interact in a way that wasn't as complete strangers. The villains don't give much of that.

Another thing that wasn't my fav, was the villain story. It wasn't terrible AT ALL, but I just didn't get why Tom was so adamant to save them from dying; when he knew they were villains. I know he doesn't want to kill, but it seemed weak to assume he'd be that invested when he obviously just needed to get them back home. And it also was a bit confusing after all the excitement of T&A's return, what the 3 SpiderMen had agreed to do. I sort of had to guess as it was happening.

The ending was brilliant, in my opinion. There was real emotion with Zendaya and Tom - and it opens up the next movies with some real questions. It could even close the Tom era, if that was the way they decided to go/Holland didn't want to return.

I don't think anyone will be let down by this movie, even though our expectations have been built up to be absolutely enormous. It delivers. Maybe not as you expect but that's probably good as well as less so.

Enjoy!

I love this show, and I this episode wasn't awful. But the entire way through it was clear this was leading to a very VERY unfair outburst from Lip to Fiona.

When he said 'someone waved a bottle of vodka in his face' I had to pause it. Someone who a) didn't know the guy, b) didn't know he was an addict. This was on top of the DCFS visit, which was again in no way Fiona's fault. When Debbie was having the visit they had the full family in on making sure it seemed safe for Franny, but Lip didn't even MENTION it to Fiona and then has the cheek to be angry at her for it?

I love the drama on the show but it felt so out of character and SO unfair. To me it feels like really really lazy writing - unless in the coming episodes Lip is seriously reprimanded for the way he's treated her.

No doubt they'll forgive each other in the coming episodes, before her exit - but that then makes this feel sort of redundant? I actually felt so angry at the end that I wanted Fiona to just tell him to F himself and leave there and then. He can then suffer knowing he drove her away with his ridiculous, sexist actions.

Also I really really love Veronica and Kev but them not being a part of the Gallagher storylines is really rubbish. It was at its best when everyone was more involved in each other's lives.

I don't know why Ru is coddling Karen and Art, but it makes for awkward, uncomfortable viewing.

They were by far the weakest (Karen made ONE BALLOON ANIMAL. It was like Michelle wanted to destroy her for it but then got the nod from Ru that it needed to be only a moderate critique).

Elektra wasn't the most polished queen but if it goes on performances/looks in tonight's episode then she should've made it to next week.

Team Kita, as she is the only one left to root for that doesn't deserve to have been kicked out.