Lamar Reviews - Twisters (Airdate 8/9/2024)

This is a sequel of the 1996 movie Twister starring Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton. The movie was so popular Universal Studios Florida opened a Twister Ride in 1998 and kept it until 2015.

This one stars Glen Powell and Daisy Edgar-Jones. Powell has been in the business since the early 2000’s and has been in some really good movies like Hidden Figures, Top Gun: Maverick, Anyone But You, and Hit Man on Netflix.

Daisy Edgar-Jones you will recognize as Kya from Where the Crawdads Sing. She plays Kate Cooper, an Oklahoma native with a knack for predicting tornadoes and a desire to minimize their damage. She is working on something that will disrupt the tornado, and this requires some tornado chasing with her friends. Things don’t go as expected and some people die and Kated is devastated. She moved to New York to work for the National Weather Service. Five years later, one of her friends and former Tornado chasers Javi, played by Anthony Ramos, tracks her down in New York to get her help with new technology that will help predict where Tornados will strike. Against her better judgement she agrees.

When she gets back to Oklahoma she meets a twister-wrangling cowboy, former bull rider, and YouTube sensation Tyler Owens, played by Glen Powell. He is arrogant, irritating, handsome and charming, and she despises him. So, we all know what that means! And the team that runs with him are weirdos, party animals, and experts in everything they do.

While Javi and his scientific crew are trying to perform experiments, the tornado wrangler is shooting fireworks into the eye of the storm, shouting cool phrases like, “You don’t face your fears-you ride em.” and “If you feel it, chase it!”

The movie is a couple of minutes over 2 hours, Rated PG-13 for intense action and peril, some language and injury images.

This is a stand-alone sequel that has nothing to do with the original. These are totally new characters with no connection to the original movie. You don’t need to have seen the 1996 film to see this one.

The plot is good enough, the action and special effects are exciting and on point. It will keep you on the edge of the seat.

The real glue is the chemistry between Powell and Edgar-Jones. Even though you know they are going to get together, you can’t wait to see how it happens. Glen Powell is on an uphill climb and seems to get better with each movie, and between this movie and Where the Crawdads Sing, she is proving she has both talent and range.

A great surprise was when Maura Tierney shows up as Kate’s mom Cathy, I love her.

This is a summer disaster movie that is anything but a disaster. It’s a lot of fun!!

My Score: A Solid 5 Buds