4. An Interesting Villain
This is something the franchise has been lacking ever since the first instalment finished. Yes Jermaine Clement was highly inspired casting. That doesnt change the fact that Boris the Animal was largely unfunny and had no compelling motivation. A revenge story had potential but the depth of Boriss plan was only ever revealed to be destroy Earth because you blew my arm off. It got boring very fast. Now Edgar in the first film was a damn good villain. We have the mysterious landing on a farm where we dont even see the villain. Then we slowly build up to the reveal that Edgar is a bug. His creepiness is played out for as long as possible and we only see his true form in the final battle scene. The acting from Vincent DOnofrio was excellent. He was creepy, mysterious and repulsive. DOnofrio actually prepped his legs up with sticks to create that stiff non-human walk Edgar had. The less said about the incredibly boring Selina the better. The villains shouldnt be played out for laughs. They should be threatening and menacing. Leave the laughs to the rest of the cast. This time around they need to play out the villain and make him (or her) scary! They also need to avoid revealing the villains true form until the very end. But I dont want them to do what they did in Men In Black 3 and give us a glimpse of the alien form before blasting it away a second later. Thats just lame.