Netflix Movie Review: Remarkably Bright Creatures

 This is an emotional life drama narrated by an octopus (Alfred Molina).  In the end two characters come together in an unexpected way.  Tova (Sally Field) lost her son when he was in high school due to a boat accident.  Cameron (Lewis Pullman) comes to town looking for his father.  He stays with a friend, Ethan Mack (Colm Meaney) of Tova's, living in his van.  He is hired at the local aquarium, where the octopus resides.  He is going to replace Tova as the janitor, who is thinking of crossing the bay and living in a senior home.  Cameron find the man he thought was his father, but he is not.  He has a girlfriend, Avery (Sofia Black D'alia).  But he blows it when he meets her son who is high school age.  

The octopus has to go to drastic measures to fix things, before he returns to the ocean to die.  

This movie is a current offer on aNetflix.  It is very likable.  The ending is very good.

In Theaters: ****^Thunderbolts (2025)

I know Thunderbolts has not done as well at the box office as most Marvel movies, but I thoroughly enjoyed it.  The only part I didn't like was one of the characters being eliminated before the movie really even gets started.  But the others doe very well, each having particular strengths.  They have all been working for Valentina (Julia Louis-Dreyfuss) who is under investigation and wants them to kill each other.  Only one is killed, Antonia Dreykov (Olga Kurylenko).  However the others are all in peril as they are trapped, and the room will soon be incinerated.  Yelena (Florence Pugh), John Walker (Wyatt Russell) and Ava Star (Hannah John-Kamen) are all surprised to meet somebody new, Bob (Lewis Pullman).  They are eventually joined by two persons who were not trapped, Bucky Barnes (Sebastian Stan) who is now a congressman and investigating Valentina and Alexei Shostakov (David Harbour) who is Yelena's father.

This movie deals a lot with personal regrets and the void.  Turns our Bob who seems to have woken up not knowing where he is, is in fact Sentry, a super super hero who has been developed by a research project of Valentina.  However the project was destroyed to hide evidence in light of the investigation.  

It is while Sentry is unconscious when things get really bad.  This releases a Sentry deep in depression which he calls the void.  everyone is sucked into the void and turns to shadow.  Each of the team members must face their worse memories.  

Lots of fun and lots of action.  Towards the end they are introduces as the New Avengers.