Mini-Review: Top badass moment? When you’ve lost faith in humanity and set yourself on a path of self-destruction (so it says on the DVD’s sleeve), finding redemption has to be considered badass. So it involves torturing, killing and generally doing some pretty unpleasant things to people, but they were ’the bad guys’ so they probably deserved it, right? If only real life was that simple. 0 cats and 0 decapitations.
Mini-Review: Top badass moment? Sarah Michelle Gellar gets to be the sexy-bad-bitch-from-hell that Buffy could have become if she’d not have been a prime-time TV character; except without all the fighting. Her every word in this film is badass and not ‘good’ baddass either. However, I’m almost sorry she got her comeuppance in the end. What a bad person! 0 cats and 0 decapitations.
Mini-Review: Top badass moment? Any 10-year-old who singlehandedly takes on responsibility for sorting out his family's problems, is badass in action; okay, so his solution was a little unorthodox, but it probably worked. 1 cat and 0 decapitations. The cat, a big ginger and white one, had a speaking part and appeared in five scenes. Sadly it’s last one involved it being run over and then put into a freezer. It did look suspiciously like it'd been drugged for this scene too, which didn’t impress me one bit.
Mini-Review: Top badass moment? The band’s performance of Exquisite Corpse. 90 seconds of musical anger. 0 cats and 0 decapitations.
Mini-Review: Top badass moment? Nearly 40 years after the original TV series, seeing Thunderbirds 1 and 2 in action again in the opening scenes is most definitely badass. 0 cats and 0 decapitations.
Mini-Review: Top badass moment? It has to be Isaac’s ‘magic shoes’. Everyone needs a pair of those sometimes. I hope they do a vegan version. 0 cats and 0 decapitations.
Mini-Review: Top badass moment? When you’re being chased by thugs making a snuff movie, starring you, pretty well any excuse you use to turn the role down is going to be badass. They’re plenty of examples here, but when a director wants you it’s pretty hard to get across that “no” means no. 0 cats and 0 decapitations.
Mini-Review: Top badass moment? Dude, it’s a film about a family of superheroes. Do I have to do everything for you? 0 cats and 0 decapitations.
Mini-Review: Top badass moment? When you're dealing with alien scum, there's no shortage of badass moments. However, I'm selecting tiny-tot tearaways Probs and Mayhem and their Super Soaker filled with petrol. You grow up fast in south London. Streetwise nine-year-olds are badass; and probably really annoying too if you live near any. 0 cats and 1 decapitation. (Well I think there was one; that crash helmet certainly went flying across the room and I think it probably still had a head inside it.)
Mini-Review: Top badass moment? In a film filled with idiots, genuine badass moments were hard to come by. However, Dr Karen Fast gets to deliver the best line, “Don’t, poke, the alien.” This is good advice at any time and good advice is often badass. 0 cats and 0 decapitations.