yeah!!! even during the first movie, like, I watched it expecting it to be good-bad? hilariously, entertainingly awful? but she just COMPLETELY makes it work, from the goofy shit to the serious shit, she's all in, and makes it pretty damn impossible not to get invested, too. and I think that's even truer in a movie that's even MORE out there. having a lead actress THAT GOOD both... grounds it, and makes sure it doesn't take itself too seriously, in equal parts.
and like, on an obnoxiously personal, serious level, storylines like that often rub me the wrong way, for obvious reasons — like, so often they just serve no purpose whatsoever, or they're totally plot device-y or used for shock value, but here it really... works? I mean, it should TOTALLY be goofy and hokey and out of place, but in BOTH movies, it comes up and is dealt with and has actual resonance, it goes somewhere and she gets some emotional closure? and bonkers situation or not, how it's addressed feels really real to me, and I appreciate the fuck out of that. it's also probably why I didn't nope right the fuck out of the first movie XD
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and like, on an obnoxiously personal, serious level, storylines like that often rub me the wrong way, for obvious reasons — like, so often they just serve no purpose whatsoever, or they're totally plot device-y or used for shock value, but here it really... works? I mean, it should TOTALLY be goofy and hokey and out of place, but in BOTH movies, it comes up and is dealt with and has actual resonance, it goes somewhere and she gets some emotional closure? and bonkers situation or not, how it's addressed feels really real to me, and I appreciate the fuck out of that. it's also probably why I didn't nope right the fuck out of the first movie XD