Maybe ranking a little low because it’s frankly much duller than Office Space. But respecting it because the group dynamics are exactly what I’ve seen so many times. People get thrown together and the extra-mile friendliness turns quickly into unnecessary volatility.

As far as little girls on the tentative verge of womanhood getting whisked away to a magical land autocratically controlled by a king of nomes and/or goblins go, I’m definitely more of a Labyrinth guy. But I gotta say, I love the swings so very far away from the original Wizard. That’s what fantasy is about and I love a sequel that very much deals the unexpected. And the unexpected this time isn’t whimsy, it’s pain and nightmares.

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A few earned startling moments, but at least a half dozen too many horror story elements. By the climax I was hoping the traumatized main characters would call time out to ask the baddies the logistics of the cult and how it applies to the family line and also what fire has to do with beheadings and also possession and then the gender thing.

Shoot adding another star. It all comes together and sends thrill waves at my face and I’m a dork. So crazy that it’s about civilization suddenly pulling out of a universal catastrophe and my two-week vaccination all clear is this coming Tuesday. Will this thing be ed for that with bonus points for predicting us coming back from the dead IRL? Or will it be dismissed for that same reason for not actually being about Covid? Regardless, Peter Parker rides on the back of Valkyrie’s winged horse so we’ll always have that.