2020 · family · action · fantasy
We Can Be Heroes
Directed by Robert Rodriguez1h 37m2020
When alien invaders capture Earth's superheroes, their kids must learn to work together to save their parents - and the planet.
Our read: We Can Be Heroes (2020) reads as a cosy, breathless, inventive family · action · fantasy entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, breathless, measured family / action, inventive in texture. Redemptive, epic, tender.
- cosy
- kinetic
- inventive
- redemptive
- tender
- epic-stakes
Watching We Can Be Heroes tonight? Spin for your lens.
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How We Can Be Heroes feels to watch.
Each axis is scored by hand, not from votes or genre averages. The bar uses the film's own colours.
What watching it is actually like.
“You want colorful kid superheroes rescuing their parents with Rodriguez energy.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if juvenile superhero silliness will bore adults without kids around.
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