Black Widow Trailer Review: 8 Ups & 3 Downs

4. The Right Blend Of Comedy And Seriousness

Given all of the action in there - more of which soon - it's good to see that there will be some levity and it feels like the right move to have David Harbour probably leading the charge on that front. As much as Hellboy was a total bust, he has emerged pretty much unscathed (his casting was perfect, it's not his fault the film was sadly awful), thanks in part to his beloved performance in Stranger Things.

And by the look of it, his Red Guardian is going to occupy the space between Hopper - a man slightly past his best who is still nevertheless a physical threat AND a loveable, perhaps slightly broken bear of a man who becomes the butt of affectionate jokes - and Hellboy - a charismatic tank monster. And if you can't get hyped by seeing him all excited in his "Russian Captain America" costume, you might as well just quit on movies altogether, frankly.

Having him playing off against the Widows who will have had that sort of charm stripped out of them as part of their conditioning (their whole point is very much that they are finding themselves again DESPITE the conditioning) is inspired and it feels like the right blend of tones.