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Bonus features include: Behind the Lens: Bong Joon Ho's Mickey 17
Mickey 17: A World Reimagined
The Faces of Niflheim
Theatrical Trailers
Is Mickey 17 Available to Stream in the US?—Gordon G. Chang, MSNBC Newsweek, 8 Apr. 2025 The environment of Niflheim was pure movie-magic, combining special and visual effects.—Chris O'Falt, IndieWire, 14 Mar. 2025 Bong has adapted Edward Ashton’s novel Mickey 7 and upped the ante by ten, making disingenuous reference to biblical seriousness by setting the prophetic story on Planet Niflheim (referencing the Nephilim in the Old Testament), yet there’s a basic, goofy lack of seriousness.—Armond White, National Review, 12 Mar. 2025 Bong's movie is a big-budget sci-fi comedy about a mismatched group of people — led by amoral politician Kenneth Marshall (Mark Ruffalo) — on a mission to colonize the alien world of Niflheim.—Richard Edwards, Space.com, 10 Mar. 2025 Mickey's one solace throughout the four-and-a-third-year journey to Niflheim is his romance with security agent Nasha (Naomi Ackie), the only crew member who thinks of every version of him as a person rather than a human guinea pig.—Megan McCluskey, TIME, 7 Mar. 2025 Now, the newest theatrical worm entry is the creeper, a worm-like species native to the ice planet of Niflheim in Mickey 17, Bong Joon Ho's feature adaptation of Ashton Edward's sci-fi novel Mickey7.—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 7 Mar. 2025 Back to that introduction: Mickey No. 17 had been considered a goner, left to die in that ice cave on the planet Niflheim (Norse mythology scholars, mark your bingo cards).—David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Mar. 2025 Infinitely worse is Kenneth Marshall, the leader of the expedition and the wannabe conqueror of Niflheim.—Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
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