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Madame Web is fun, from a certain angle, and it most certainly didn't deserve all the hate from critics AND the members of the cast.
Flaws, sure, but that's a reflection of life, no? We are all flawed. We are all products of multi-million dollar budgets and hundreds of people pursuing one goal - to get a motion picture to the big screen, and subsequent streaming service.
As for Dakota Johnson's performance as Cassie Webb, I completely understand her indifference thoroughout 90% of the movie. In her mind, her mother drug her along, albeit in utereo, to the Amazon to study spiders and got herself killed for her troubles. That's some heavy duty trauma to dump on a kid. No wonder she is a "tough hang" as Jason Mantzoukas described her in the podcast "How Did This Get Made?"
And let's give a nod to the three young adults that Cassie has been tasked to protect. Sydney Sweeney, Celeste O'Connor, and Isabela Merced were all believable in their respective roles as snarky, know-it-all, and/or indifferent teenagers.
Is this Citizen Kane? Nah. Is it silly escapist fun? Of course.
Oh, and Adam Scott is in it, and that's worth at LEAST 1/2 a star.
Madame Web is fun, from a certain angle, and it most certainly didn't deserve all the hate from critics AND the members of the cast.
wait, I think I already said that. Deja vu!
