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Movies in a Minute: "Elemental"
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Movies in a Minute: "Elemental"

  • BRUCE R. MILLER
  • Jun 21, 2023
  • Jun 21, 2023 Updated Jul 18, 2025
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Movie critic Bruce Miller says “Elemental” has visuals that spark some interest, but the story itself is more interested in making puns than firing emotions.

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Writers, apparently, were so enamored with their ability to play off the characters’ earth, wind, fire and water clichés they didn’t miss an opportunity to toss in two more. The result: 'Elemental' is an overstuffed metaphor for the world.

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Writers seem so enamored with their ability to play off the characters’ earth, wind, fire and water clichés they don’t miss an opportunity to toss two more in. The result is an overstuffed metaphor for the world we live in.

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