Hollywood's biggest summer movies, be it The Odyssey or Spider-Man: Brand New Day,  have already had plenty of critics, commentators and audiences picking them apart. Saturday Night Live simply decided to put a familiar face in the reviewing chair, with Jeremy Culhane bringing back his Tucker Carlson impression for the first Weekend Update of Season 52.

Christopher Nolan’s epic has already conquered the box office, but that did not spare it from Carlson’s particularly strange cinematic dissection.

Jeremy Culhane’s beloved Tucker Carlson opened his movie-review segment by turning his attention to Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, which has become one of 2026’s biggest theatrical successes. The film has grossed approximately $1.73 billion worldwide, including more than $612 million domestically, making it Universal’s highest-grossing film ever. When Colin Jost asked whether Carlson had seen the film, the character responded as humorously as ever. 

“Oh yes. The Odyssey in IMAX 70mm. That’s right. The Hollywood cabal shoots its filth with ‘millimeters,’ or as I like to call it, ‘The Gay Inch,'” he deadpanned. And if that was not enough of an answer for Jost and the audience, Tucker Carlson added more snark to his review. 

"I like The Odyssey. It’s so nice to see Greek people do something other than make women feel uncomfortable." 

Culhen's joke as Carlson targeted the film’s famously elaborate premium-format presentation rather than its commercial performance. The Odyssey has become precisely the sort of blockbuster that invites discussion about the theatrical experience. Its $1.7 billion-plus haul has also helped Universal become the first studio to cross $5 billion globally in 2026. The segment then moved away from Nolan’s epic and toward several other major releases from the summer.

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From Marvel’s biggest wall-crawler to an unexpectedly enormous horror hit, the remainder of Carlson's targets have, also, already made plenty of noise at the box office.

On his SNL return, Jeremy Culhane’s Tucker Carlson took digs at Spider-Man: Brand New Day, joking about its title, Tom Holland and Zendaya’s marriage, and the film’s handling of gender. The movie has nevertheless been an extraordinary commercial success, earning about $2.48 billion worldwide and becoming the highest-grossing film of 2026.

The character also took aim at Obsession, calling its premise “left-wing propaganda” before delivering a series of jokes about the film’s relationship between its central characters. For the unversed, the horror movie has become one of the year’s biggest surprises, earning roughly $517 million worldwide from a production that cost less than $1 million.

The final joke shifted toward Minions & Monsters, with Carlson revealing that he was not discussing the animated film at all before pivoting into a political punchline about Donald Trump’s administration. For The Odyssey, however, the joke was aimed at something almost impossible to mock away: the film’s enormous theatrical footprint.

Nolan’s epic may have already conquered the box office, but on SNL, even a $1.7 billion blockbuster was still fair game for the Weekend Update treatment.

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