{"id":728372,"date":"2026-06-27T02:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728372\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T02:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T02:26:14","slug":"aunty-donnas-hour-long-x-men-movie-more-efficient-than-avengers-doomsday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/728372\/","title":{"rendered":"Aunty Donna’s hour-long X-Men movie more efficient than Avengers: Doomsday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Marvel is reportedly spending something like $400 million on the production of this December\u2019s Avengers: Doomsday<\/a>, which will\u2014among what we\u2019re expecting to be about a dozen other extremely important and bombastic tentpole film priorities\u2014serve as the full introduction of its X-Men characters into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Which feels a bit excessive, doesn\u2019t it? After all: If Aunty Donna<\/a> can remind us of everything great about the X-Men in less than an hour, and for under $250,000, where\u2019s the other $399.75 million going?<\/p>\n

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That\u2019s right: The Australian comedy group\u2014whose biggest move Stateside probably remains its 2020 Netflix series Aunty Donna\u2019s Big Ol\u2019 House Of Fun<\/a>, but which has been touring and performing regularly ever since\u2014has now tackled Earth\u2019s mightiest mutants themselves, releasing an hour-long video on Friday that sort of\u00a0replicates the beats of several different\u00a0X-Men\u00a0films, as interpreted by three guys who are very clearly not allowed to look at cue cards or ask for a second take. The resulting video is a real confluence of humor both intentional and not, as members Zachary Ruane, Mark Samual Bonanno, and Broden Kelly at least try to get through their scenes, only to run into endless complications with their costumes, accents, lines, and material they\u2019ve decided, last-minute, to excise from the script. (Not unlike Marvel themselves, they notably wrestle with how hard to go on Magneto\u2019s Holocaust background in the context of their goofy comedy video.)<\/p>\n

The highlight is probably the film\u2019s big action climax, in which Kelly\u2019s Wolverine and Bonanno\u2019s Mystique face off on some \u201cicy tundra\u201d for a battle that increasingly devolves into slapfights and giggling over costume malfunctions. (We\u2019re also pretty partial to a scene set in the Cerebro chamber, where the green screen background clearly features a shot of the actors from the actual films.) The whole thing is, in other words, relentlessly silly, even as everyone involved tries\u00a0to stick to the script of a pretty traditional X-Men story. All of which is to say: Your move, Disney.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marvel is reportedly spending something like $400 million on the production of this December\u2019s Avengers: Doomsday, which will\u2014among…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728373,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[88,206],"class_list":["post-728372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}