Reactions: Perfectly enjoyable… until the end
Where to watch: Amazon Prime

I’d heard Twisters the sequel was a bomb, which is why I put off watching it for so long. But, here’s the thing. I liked it. In fact, I liked it way more than I liked the original movie. (My apologies to any Helen Hunt fans who read this blog.)

Maybe I was stoked to see my gal Kiernan Shipka (from Sabrina!) in a silver screen production. Or maybe I like Glen Powell as a cowboy root-n-tootin tornado wrangler. Either way, the casting was fun. The movie was fun. The action was awesome.

CGI is clearly what makes this movie do whirlwinds around the original. And there were so many destructive scenes that put us, the viewer, right in the heart of a tornado. I’m not sure what a real tornado is like, but if it’s anything like what this movie portrays, then no thank you, ma’am. I’ll stay right here in earthquake territory instead.

Ok, so here’s the thing. I liked this movie all throughout. Even when they pulled the “the bad guy is actually the good guy and the good guy is actually the bad guy” stunt. I mean, it was really heavy handed, but it was fine. Predictable, but fine.

But then something happened at the very end of the movie. One like uttered by my girl Kiernan. It made me audibly wretch and yell “Ew!” at the screen. Earlier in the movie, loverboy Glen says that he grew up to chase tornadoes because he loved them and if you love something you chase it. Or something to that effect.

Fast forward to the end of the movie. The two have bonded, shared life or death experiences. And yet, Glen is just dropping off Kiernan at the airport like it ain’t no thing. He’s like, “bye, i guess?” and she’s all like, “maybe i’ll come back maybe i won’t” and he’s all like, “why you gotta play like that?” and she’s like, “maybe i’m not playin.”

Then she says it. The line that made me hate the movie. She says, “Maybe if you feel it, you should chase it.” Here are my issues with the line. First, it kinda doesn’t fit the dialogue or her character. You can tell the writers were like, “ooooh yeah, let’s cram this line in. Boom, booyeah, we’re so clever.” But like, no. It didn’t work. Then, worse than that, Glen looks all puzzled, like, “why whatever could that mean?!” Bro. She’s telling you to not let her leave. It’s your fucking line from like 45 minutes ago. I remember it and I’m not the one who said it. C’mon man!

I’ll stop ranting about it. You can watch it for yourself below.

I still recommend watching the movie. It’s dumb fun. Better than the original