10 Great Subplots In Bad Recent Movies

Netflix's recent Melissa McCarthy-led superhero comedy Thunder Force was a near-total waste of time - a painfully unfunny, overlong car crash of misguided ideas.

The sole exception, however, is the romantic subplot between McCarthy's protagonist Lydia Berman and a supervillain known as The Crab (Jason Bateman).

The Crab - a man with crab arms - steals every scene he's in, most memorably an hysterical dinner date with Lydia, where he attempts to drink a cocktail with his pincers, before the waiter ill-advisedly offers him a seafood platter and apologises with the immortal one-liner, "I'm sorry, I didn't see your pincers."

It's the single aspect of the movie that actually works, rousing some genuine laughs and making everybody briefly forget about the movie's otherwise charmless, generic script.