"Black Widow represents the MCU looking back when it should be moving forward. Everything about the movie seems small, even the big action set pieces."

James Berardinelli gives words to our comments but not our feelings. Mike and Dave talk about the small scale, road trip camaraderie between ScarJo and Florence Pugh, and touch on why it’s suddenly ok to make fun of superhero nonsense. We also briefly discuss why we are Team ScarJo in the lawsuit connected to this small scale, small profit movie.

We mostly had a good time with BLACK WIDOW, which of course is underperforming by Marvel/Disney conglomerate standards, but who cares? Watch it and have a good time too! Or don't!

Stimulate that ScarJo economy this Labor Day!

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