We liked the original well enough, but weren't really excited about Twisters (2024). But it showed up at the library, and it does have a Paul Scheer cameo...
It starts with Daisy Edgar-Jones and her college colleagues out storm chasing with a plan to stop tornadoes. It doesn't work and everyone gets killed, besides her and Anthony Ramos. She was hiding under an overpass, and the drone shot shows the path of destruction: The tornado's path was through fields, away from roads, and straight for the overpass. I'm beginning to think it's personal for these guys.
Edgar-Jones retires from storm chasing, and goes to work at a DC weather bureau. But she gets a call from Ramos who has gotten funding for a new trial, and wants her to join. He talks her into a one-week jaunt.
Back in the wide open country of Oklahoma, they get to chasing, but are almost run off the road by a bunch of YouTube yahoos in boosted pickups. The head of that crew is Glen Powell, an energy-drink guzzling, shit-talking macho man. It took a long time for me to realize that he was going to be the male lead of this dumb movie.
So that's the setup: Edgar-Jones has a tornado super-sense, PTSD and a grudge. Ramos has the backing of a shady insurance company and a crush on Edgar-Jones. Powell and his gang of knuckleheads like taking extreme chances, but are doing it all to help the poor citizens who are threatened by these twisters. It is a bit icky.
The original was a silly bit of fun, but it felt more coherent and focused. The new one seemed more scattered, looking for random audience-pleasing beats (just the beats, please) and references to the first one. But there were no flying cows in this.
But the twister effects are cool, so there is that. But the original had twin twisters (and so should have been called Twisters), so shouldn't there have been at least four twisters in this one?
Ms. Spenser recognized Scheer before I did. It's a cute role, but maybe not worth watching a whole movie for.
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