Twisters is about a former storm chaser named Kate Carter who is haunted by a devastating encounter with a tornado in Oklahoma during her college years. She moves to New York City to safely examine storm patterns on screens for the National Weather Service. Her friend, Javi, entices her back to the wide plains of Oklahoma so she can help Javi test a new fangled weather tracking system. There, she meets Tyler Owens, an endearing and impulsive social media celebrity who loves to share his storm-chasing adventures with his wild group of friends—the more daring, the better.

As storm season builds up, never-before-seen dreadful weather phenomena are unleashed, and Kate, Tyler, Javi, and their crews find themselves in a life-threatening situations as multiple storm systems converge over central Oklahoma.

Fortunately, despite being a weather-oriented disaster film, Twister makes no mention of global warming or climate change. In fact, the director, Lee Isaac Chung, made the refreshing statement that films shouldn’t preach a message—something Hollywood rarely does these days.

I just wanted to make sure that with the movie, we don’t ever feel like it is putting forward any message, Chung told CNN. I just don’t feel like films are meant to be message-oriented.

I believe that what we are doing is illustrating the truth of what is occurring on the ground. We’re not afraid to admit that things are changing, Chung also said. I wanted to make sure that we are never creating a feeling that we’re preaching a message, because that’s certainly not what I think cinema should be about. I think it should be a reflection of the world.

It’s not overtly stated in a scene, but a central element of the film’s plot is that storms and floods are happening more frequently. There are some girl boss tropes in the film too but they’re not too strong.

The main character, Kate, ends up conducting the task that Tyler performs at the end. But what Kate does could have been done by anyone. In the end, every cast member plays a role and it works.

Fortunately, the filmmakers stuck with the plot being about intensifying storm frequency without mentioning climate change. Overall, Twisters is an entertaining, popcorn, disaster film.