What's New on Netflix in February 2022

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For all the rise of streaming has done to kill movie theaters and disrupt the entertainment world, I have to admit that I continue to be impressed by the weird stuff Netflix and its ilk spend their billions on. As audiences segment themselves ever further, content grows ever more niche, to the point that one of the world’s biggest streamer’s top offerings for February 2022 is an offbeat animated series based on a bizarre indie video game.

The Cuphead Show! (Feb. 18) apes the character designs (if not the charming retro animation) of Cuphead, a quirky 2017 run-and-gun shooter developed by Studio MDHR. A huge success by the standards of independently-produced games—having sold more than six million copies—it doesn’t strike me as any Hollywood producer’s first bet for a mainstream hit show, even though it’s remarkably well-suited to be one: Visually “inspired by the rubber hose style from the golden age of American animation” that began in the 1920s, its wacky character designs (that title describes the heroes quite literally) and frantic action mean it barely needs to be translated between mediums.

Still, some things seem to have been sacrificed in the move. While the game was painstaking hand-animated in the style of those vintage cartoon shorts, the show is produced via modern methods of computer-assisted animation, giving it a very different feel, despite the faithful character designs. Also, considering it’s debuting under the Netflix Family banner, I can only assume some of the sharper edges of the narrative—which involves a literal deal with the devil and a violent battle for the heroes’ lost souls—have been smudged a bit. Nevertheless, I’ll sample it with glee.

Here’s everything else coming to Netflix this month, including new episodes of Space Force (remember that? With Steve Carrell? May 2020 was so long ago) and Matt Groeing’s Disenchantment (Feb. 9), more reality relationship shenanigans on Love Is Blind—both original flavor (Feb. 11) and Love Is Blind Japan (Feb. 8)—a new Tyler Perry film starring Madea (Feb. 25), and, on Feb. 1, a new season of Gabby’s Dollhouse (that one’s for my kids).

What’s coming to Netflix in February 2022

Coming in February (date TBD)

  • Business Proposal — Netflix Series
  • Juvenile Justice — Netflix Series
  • Love, Life & Everything in Between — Netflix Series
  • One Piece: Episode of Chopper: Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura
  • One Piece: Episode of Alabasta

Arriving Feb. 1

  • My Best Friend Anne Frank — Netflix Film
  • Gabby’s Dollhouse: Season 4 — Netflix Family
  • Raising Dion: Season 2 — Netflix Series
  • The Addams Family (1991)
  • Anaconda
  • Batman Begins
  • The Book of Eli
  • The Bourne Ultimatum
  • Caddyshack
  • Caddyshack 2
  • Countdown
  • The Dark Knight
  • Despicable Me
  • Despicable Me 2
  • The Devil’s Advocate
  • Donnie Brasco
  • The Exorcist
  • The Foreigner
  • The Hangover
  • Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole
  • The Last Samurai
  • The Lucky One
  • The Negotiator
  • The New Guy
  • New Year’s Eve
  • The One
  • The Other Boleyn Girl
  • The Other Guys
  • Patsy & Loretta
  • Transformers: Dark of the Moon
  • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
  • Warrior
  • Watchmen

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  • Don’t Kill Me — Netflix Film

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  • Worst Roommate Ever — Netflix Documentary
  • UFO — Netflix Film

Arriving Feb. 24

  • Karma’s World Music Videos — Netflix Family

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Arriving Feb. 28

  • My Wonderful Life — Netflix Film
  • Two Sentence Horror Stories: Season 3

What’s leaving Netflix in February 2022

Leaving Feb. 1

  • Await Further Instructions
  • Grown Ups

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  • Being Elmo: A Puppeteer’s Journey

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  • Border Security: America’s Front Line: Season 2
  • Chocolat
  • Dances with Wolves
  • The Darkest Hour
  • Fool’s Gold
  • Here Comes the Boom
  • The Interview
  • Labyrinth
  • Law Abiding Citizen
  • Mars Attacks!
  • Observe and Report
  • Rain Man
  • Sabrina
  • Sex Drive
  • Something Borrowed
  • Soul Surfer
  • Step Brothers
  • Terminator 2: Judgment Day
  • Total Recall
  • We Were Soldiers

 


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