I thought of a far-too-mean opening paragraph for this:
“The good news: I’m confident Lisa Frankenstein will not be the worst movie I see this week. The bad news: tomorrow I’m seeing Madame Web.”
Lisa Frankenstein is not a particularly good movie. It’s trying really hard to be “John Waters directs a Tim Burton film,” and it doesn’t quite work. But it does feel like it’s trying to be something different-but-accessible, and sometimes that works.
Someone online wrote “this is the kind of movie that people will appreciate in five years.” I don’t know if that’s true, but I could see this becoming a movie that spawns a thousand TikTok clips (or whatever the 2029 equivalent of TikTok is). I do know that I saw it for free on a weekday afternoon and didn’t feel regret that I’d spent a couple of hours in a theater with it. Let’s see if Madame Web can manage that!