The good news is dumb big budget disaster movies are back. The bad news is the same as the good news. Twisters has a lot in common with the 1996 original. The plot is nonsense, the characters are paper thin and you'll never think about the movie again after seeing it.

Unlike the Jan de Bont movie with Helen Hunt and Bill Paxton the leads here have no chemistry. Something I put on Daisy-Edgar Jones as Glen Powell had chemistry with several co-leads in past films. He has good chemistry with Maura Tirney in this movie. And she's onscreen for five minutes and plays Daisy's mother. The romance in this movie is undercooked and there isn't even a hint of comedy. After hours in the cinema I still did not understand why these two stay together at the conclusion.

As a big disaster movie this is well done on the big screen. The tornadoes are chaotic, large and have good effects. The tornado chasing is high energy, with the more professional types engaging in juvenile races with those wacky live streaming storm chasers. One side is doing it for nefarious profit, the other for the love of it and that sweet YouTube ad money.

The storm chasers are walking clichés. Some get sucked into a vortex and are never seen again but they don't matter so meh. That sums up the movie. Meh. If you want a better romantic comedy with decent stunt work that came out this year you should watch The Fall Guy instead.

The bar has been set that low this summer.