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AT THE MOVIES #846        HOW SUPER DO YOU WANT?

 

Simon Morris looks at three types of superhero movies – the latest from the phenomenally popular Marvel Comics franchise, a uniquely French take on the genre and a remake of a family movie starring basketball superstars and popular cartoon characters.

 

Black Widow sees Scarlett Johansson finally carry a superhero movie on her own, as the popular member of The Avengers.  Also starring Florence Pugh (Little women) and Rachel Weisz (The constant gardener).

 

How I became a superhero is a French Netflix film about a world where people with superpowers co-exist with ordinary people in an alternative Paris.

 

And the remake of the popular Space Jam of 1996 sees basketball legend LeBron James sent to a world of Warner Brothers cartoon characters, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck and Porky Pig.