150 Word Review: 'Twisters' (2024)

Shake it up, baby

Photo: Universal Pictures

I appreciate a movie that delivers on its title's promises, and Twisters does just that. What's the plot? Twisters, and plenty of them.

This is not a sequel to the 1996 disaster smash Twister; it's more of a spiritual reboot. They're both about country-fried storm chasers. Daisy Edgar-Jones is a brilliant scientist who can smell the weather. She's a snob (with a dark past.) Her rival is Glen Powell, a charismatic, secretly brilliant YouTube adrenaline junky. He's a slob (who is hot.) The tornados are CGI, but they look and sound apocalyptic.

The other star of Twisters is Oklahoma, an all-American paradise full of pick-ups, barns, and decent folk who despise uptight New Yorkers. Twisters was secretly developed in a Hollywood studio lab to attract middle-Americans sick of overt "wokeness." Fair enough. This movie's "wokeness' is subtle. Twisters is an upbeat and entertaining warning that catastrophic climate change is real.

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