If Thunder Force will be remembered for anything, it might be this bizarro footnote: The movie marks the second time, after The Shape of Water, that a character played by Octavia Spencer learns her best friend has had life-changing sex with a fish-man.
Which makes it sound a lot more interesting than it is. It helps, of course, that the trans-species couple in question, each with unasked-for superhuman strength, are played by Melissa McCarthy and Jason Bateman.
There might be no one better than McCarthy to poke a welcome hole in superhero self-seriousness. But Thunder Force wobbles between half-baked comic-strip sendup and half-hearted valentine.
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