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The Thundermans Return - Part 2

SPOILERS AHEAD!

Previously on my review...

The Thundertwins are taken to Dark Mayhem's old lair, to be tortured by an AI and unfortunately for them, nobody else knows where they really are, so they're on their own.

Later in Hiddenville, the V-Team break into the Thundermans house to find out where the Power Plant is and once again, nobody was able to even face them. I mean, Billy could've knocked them out in a second, but they only saw Hank getting tased by a plasma beam.

All they had to do to get what they want, was showing the family a live stream of Max and Phoebe getting tortured, so Hank and Barb decide to give out the plant, which was hidden inside of the penguin butler all this time.

The V-Team take the plant and leave the house to continue with their plan and even though Hank tries to follow them as always (by flying out the roof), the Thundermonitor informs that Hiddenville is being covered by a powerful dome, so now they can't get out of the city, even with Chloe's power.

By the way, I wonder if the squirrel they used to test the red seeds, was the same one Dr. Colosso lost to, after their short encounter in "Breaking Dad". It was funny though.

Back in Metroburg, Max and Phoebe are in a worst danger, as Dark Mayhem's AI has started to fill the booth with liquid mercury to kill them, and since the cell is un breakable and their powers doesn't work on the liquid, they'll be practically doomed once the booth fills.

Let's pretend that their suits are mercury proof and that freeze breath and heat breath can't reach 234 K and 630 K respectively.

That's when they finally open themselves up to each other, about their reasons to work so hard as superheroes and realized that they're not that different as they thought.

Max was focused on getting famous on social media, because he thought he could never be as good as her, and she was so obsessed with being the best superhero, because that way she could get to feel special again, like when Max was a villain and she was the favorite.

After having this talk, they figure out a way to break the crystal booth from the outside with telekinesis and once they're safe and sound, they find out that they're still trapped in the lair due to the security system and they only have 20 minutes before it gets destroyed, along with them.

Back in Hiddenville, Colosso is still dealing with the evil squirrel as the Thundermans gather some of their friends and neighbours at the park, so they can help them out to go save Max and Phoebe.

At first, Bardford and Mrs. Wong, were hesitant to help since they've always despised all of the Thundermans, but Chloe manages to convince them and this is when we learn that Gideon still has a crush on Barb. Dude...

At the end, only five citizens are given blue seeds to get superhero powers:

Cherry = Pyrotechnic Manipulation Oyster = Super Burp Gideon = Iron Fist Mrs. Wong = Super Tornado Principal Bradford = Super Strength

They all use their powers along with the Thundermans to hit the dome repeatedly, until breaking a hole out the park. Now that Chloe is able to use her powers, she teleports with her family.

They get inside of the not-so-discreet lair, just in time to save Max and Phoebe, but they're still trapped inside with an inevitable explosion and they only have 15 seconds left.

With no password to be used, they were expecting to use Chloe's power to teleport out, but she says that she needs a minute to recharge.

And this is when I said... WHAT?!

We've previously seen baby Chloe using her powers two times in a row in "Are You Afraid of the Park?" or multiple times in "On The Straight And Arrow". The only explanation I can think about, is she only experience this limitation, when teleporting more than one person at a time.

But she's like 12 now, so her powers should be stronger than before, but yeah, I'll let it go.

The place is about to explode, but Hank saves them all by using brute force to deactivate the self-destruction sequence. But there's another problem, since the V-Team is still out there.

And right before they go save the day, Billy finally has a moment to show he's not the dumb they think he is, by helping them to figure out where the villains may have gotten to end with their evil plan; Mount Metroburg.

Far away from there, the villains are all together on the top of Mount Metroburg, ready to launch a giant drone with the red seeds turned into dust and spread them around the whole city, but the Thundermans appear just in time to stop them.

I wonder if the Hero League was aware of the V-Team identity at this point, because I really doubt the guards would just let them walk out of the Superjail next to the V-Team, but considering how easy they must've defeated Max and Phoebe, they probably just knocked out all of the guards in the blink of an eye.

Anyway, they start fighting each other and we fiinally get to see what Kira was talking about, when she said the movie had a lot of fighting scenes. I really liked it, especially because now we see the Thundertwins using all their powers and skills.

Telekinesis to push the enemy in the middle of the battle or throwing back plasma balls, and heat breath and freeze breath to break some plasma shileds and explode a few rocks during the fight.

At first, I kind of felt Hank and Barb's powers were a little bit nerfed here. I mean, they're practically veteran superheroes and still were struggling to defeat King Crab and his daughter. But in "A Hero Is Born", Hank was able to defeat three villains without any help, but here... well he was using a stick to hit the bad guy.

I guess they were trying to balance the fight to not make it boring or easy to win and that's why they find another way to defeat King Crab and She-Crab.

Also, I liked to see Billy and Nora working together to fight back Strongdor and his son, Krondor. They didn't look like they were holding back, but the way they beat them up was kind of weird. I guess that's the price when heroes try to stop the bad guys, instead of killing them.

Anyway, Dark Mayhem is the last man standing and the Thundertwins keep fighting against him side by side, until they're close enough to freeze him and the fight is over.

However, Dark Mayhem Jr. manages to launch the drone at the last minute and even though Max freezes him too, now they have to stop that thing from spreading the red dust around the city.

Hank quickly mentions that the drone is faster than him, so there's only one way to stop it; Chloe's teleportation powers, that's when Hank and Barb finally make the hard desition of letting her youngest daughter take a risk for once, and she teleports with Max and Phoebe.

Now they're flying on the drone as Max shuts down the energy so Phoebe can get the red dust container out, but at one point she slips her hand and is about to fall, so she hands Max the container, getting ready to sacrifice herself in order to save the city. Max refuses and Chloe keeps struggling to thouch her hand to teleport back safely.

Did anyone else notice how Max was holding the container under his right arm, but on the next scene it's gone and he's just grabbing the border of the drone instead, but once they teleport back with the family he's holding the container again and gives it to Hank?

Back in Hiddenville, the family is spending time together at home and talking about their new life at their old town. Everything seems to be back to normal, when President Kickbutt arrives to apologize and get all of them back into the Hero League.

Max and Phoebe ask her to turn their house into the new headquarters of the T-Force, to give their family the place they deserve, to which Evelyn agreeds, along with two more bratty requests from the twins.

We then see that Cherry, Oyster, Gideon, Mrs. Wong and Bradford still have their powers and it is implied that the Thundermans were meant to take their powers away, but they decide to freeze the problem (just like old times) and have a family night together, while enjoying Hank's chilli.

On the last scene, Dr. Colosso is alone at Max's laptop, talking to a misterious voice that seems to be recruiting him for a secret mission, which leaves us wondering if they're actually planning something in the not too distant future, such as a new season or another movie.

And this is it.

"The Thundermans Return"

I was gonna write all the things I needed to point out in this post, but I wanted to elaborate my opinions with more pictures, which I can't add due to the 30 pictures limit, so I've decided to write all I have to say about this movie in a new post, which is already published, by the time you read this.

See you there.