Meryl Streep, Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Lawrence and Cate Blanchett lead The Big Short director’s new satire about the world’s imminent destruction.
A chain-smoking Meryl Streep is out to trump Donald Trump in Adam McKay’s over-emphatic political satireWith blonde ringlets and a permanent sneer, Streep plays a US president who chooses not to take notice of news about the world’s imminent destruction because she’s afraid it will damage her election prospects.Niko Tavernise/Netflix
Desperate to tell someone who can do something to avert this catastrophe, they set out on an odyssey that starts with NASA and moves on to the White House before putting them on a media merry-go-round culminating in trial by social media. Mark Rylance does very well as a seriously weird tech magnate with his own plans for dealing with the asteroid, and Jonah Hill mumbles his way through his part as the president’s obnoxious son who doubles as her chief of staff. McKay even finds room for Ariana Grande as a pop star whose problems with her rapper husband somehow become embroiled in the two astronomers’ misadventures with the media.
Streep, too, has trouble arriving at a rhythm for her performance, maybe because Trump is such a hard act to follow. How do you parody somebody who has already gone to grotesque extremes in ignoring the dictates of reason and common sense? His vanity, too, is beyond exaggeration, so it’s no surprise that Streep fails to come up with anything more than a set of mannerisms.
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