Seems like the only way a scifi movie gets love is when there is humour, these days.
Scifi movie without humour usually get trash by critics and fans.
The more the humour, the greater the praise.
The Wachowskis has never been known for their humour, so any scifi movie they do these days will get hate.
1996 interview with the Wachowskis:
JH: Was there a lot of research going to the comic book [Plastic Man] for that?
LW: We had read the comic book. We sort of thought it might be a funny idea. It's probably the closest script to a comedy we'll write. We thought it could be kind of cool. The basic idea we came up with was that he would be an environmentalist, almost like an Earth First-er type guy. The funny scene we thought of that was kind of the start of it all was like he goes to the bathroom after he becomes Plastic Man and his urine is no longer bio-degradable so he like wants to kill himself.
MCN: I can't imagine what a Wachowski comedy would look like.
DD: I was told that Larry and Andy once were asked to attend a pitch meeting for a major motion picture with a big star attached. They listened to the pitch, until the producer said, 'And it will have a lot of laughs," at which point they got up, and said, 'We don't do funny,' and left the room.
They had to put humour in Speed Racer, because of the source material.
What was the funny moments in CA and JA?
"The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish" part (of the total 6) of CA was written as a comedy, again based on the source material.
JA had funny moments eg Jupiter's family, the pad, the bureaucracy scene. Producer Grant Hill (who has produced all their films since The Matrix Reloaded) suggested a couple of times that the Wachowskis were consciously trying to make it more lighthearted than usual and hoped audiences would enjoy that aspect.
If they tried to put funny moments in CA and JA, then they failed miserably.
Here's a interesting new article about this subject
http://eugenedailynews.com/2016/04/film-fanatic-reshoots-suicide-squad-make-funnier-intouchables-remake-news/
What was the funny moments in CA and JA?
I had to laugh at the scene where Jupiter gets her "title" at the DMV of the universe or the title place or whatever it was.
Anyone ever dealt with house title issues? Even the quick flash of the List posted on the wall of the legal forms you could apply for there was quite true. And placed in that movie scene seemed quite humorous to me indeed.
And that they finally had to Bribe the clerk to even get "her majesty" her "title" was the best part!