The Daily Beast
Netflix With 2020’s Oscar-winning My Octopus Teacher , Netflix revealed to the world that octopuses are highly intelligent and empathetic. Now, with Remarkably Bright Creatures , it exploits that fact for historic levels of mawkishness. So saccharine it’s liable to give viewers diabetes, Olivia Newman’s adaptation of Shelby Van Pelt’s 2022 best-seller is a treacly tale of an aquarium cleaning lady, a young stranger, and the octopus whom they befriend—and, vice versa, since this eight-limbed mollusk has his sights set on healing his two-legged pals’ decades-old wounds. Eliciting exasperated laughs at its every manipulation, it may be the most ridiculously corny movie of all time. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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