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7. Archie: To Riverdale and Back Again
This one is weeeeeiiiiiird. I honestly don't really know what to make of it. And in a post "Riverdale" world, I can't decide if it's less weird or twice as weird.
The film follows up with the classic Archie Comics cast of characters all in their mid-30s. It's high school reunion time and Archie Andrews, now a high powered lawyer with a fiancé, is coming back to Riverdale. Once there, he meets up with the old gang and they all get up to some wacky hijinx. There are parts of this that are actually pretty good, shockingly enough. I was expecting a weird too-adult version of the Archie characters. And honestly, it would have been better if that's what it was. The weird indie movie versions of the Archie cast are actually pretty interesting. Especially Jughead as a wormy adult therapist and single father. Reggie as a slimy used car salesman type businessman is also fun as hell. The problems are when it veers back into silly comic book antics. Especially in the ending where Archie gives up having any sort of outside life to just wallow in high school nostalgia. It's super depressing but doesn't seem to think it's a downer ending. Move on, folks.
How Does It Compare To The Comics?: It occasionally strikes at the heart of the characters but the closer it gets to the comics, the worse it gets. But it still surpassed my expectations with a"¦
