"If you feel it, chase it!": The Film Doctor's One Sentence Review of Twisters starring Glen Powell

I've gotten out of practice of writing movie reviews recently, but I watched Twisters on Amazon Prime at home mostly because the wife has a thing for Glen Powell after seeing his mostly shirtless self in Anyone But You (2023), so she was willing to suffer seeing him wearing a white t-shirt in the rain in a scene in this film, even though she was traumatized by tornadoes in Kentucky years ago, yet Twisters is diverting enough as long as you get used to a tornado showing up in most every scene, and the film's main character Kate Carter (the easy-going Daisy Edgar-Jones) works hard on solving the problem of tornadoes by driving a truck with a trailer full of barrels of chemicals into the said twister, only sometimes losing friends such as the daughter in Mad Men (Kiernan Shipka) (spoiler alert) when she blows away in the wind, or a rodeo gets disrupted, or they have to find an empty swimming pool to survive yet another gale, but I liked the movie's references to The Wizard of Oz (1939), and Glen Powell's character known as the "tornado wrangler" could have been a real jerk with his YouTube channel and his monster truck, but he turns out to be very sensitive and thoughtful when it comes to down drafts and compellingly semiotic clouds, making him somewhat a romantic possibility as everyone chases whirlwinds without mentioning the dread words (whisper it softly now) climate change, not offending those in the audience who may mind, as much as we all might be getting used to sitting around in the humidity for days after the electricity goes out after our town has been destroyed yet again and again.  

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