10 of the most cringeworthy moments in 'Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery'

Early in "Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery," Rian Johnson sets up the climax that reveals tech genius billionaire Miles Bron (Edward Norton) is actually an idiot.

In the opening of the movie, Lionel Touissant (Leslie Odom Jr.) tries to defend his boss Miles by showing the crazy-but-genius ideas the billionaire sends to him via fax.

While the faxes are obviously meant to be silly, they are almost too silly: "Uber for Biospheres," "AI in Dogs = Discourse," and "Child = NFT."

Honestly, these seem more like something written in Tumblr posts than any idea a human would pitch for a new invention.

In fact, judging by the fact Miles loves to steal ideas, we wouldn't be surprised if they were stolen from Tumblr.

In another scene early in the movie, Lionel and his friends Birdie Jay (Kate Hudson) and Claire Debella (Kathryn Hahn) work together to work out Miles' puzzle box that he sent to each of them.

When Birdie reveals that her assistant Peg (Jessica Henwick) is putting out a fire, Claire immediately thinks the former model is referring to another PR disaster, following the earlier revelation that Birdie had tweeted a slur.

While it is a subtle moment, Claire referring to Twitter as "the Twitter" is peak "soccer mom" and really made us eyeroll.

In another introductory scene, we meet streamer-turned-men's rights activist Duke Cody (Dave Bautista) as he and his girlfriend Whiskey (Madelyn Cline) justify his statement about the "breastification of America" in a video for his YouTube channel.

In the video, he says: "I do not hate boobs. Boobs gives us many useful things. Boobs gives us milk, cheese. Breasts nourish our young until the age where we can go out and hunt for them. Let's be honest. Boobs are fun."

Honestly, it is just a bizarre speech that might have been too obvious about who it was satirizing to be funny.

Unlike the first movie, "Glass Onion" is filled with celebrity cameos and references from Serena Williams to Jared Leto. However, cellist Yo-Yo Ma's cameo makes the least amount of sense.

Duke, Birdie, Peg, Claire, and Lionel are trying to solve Miles' mystery box when they get stumped on the musical element of the game. Birdie shouts at a lamp to "Shazam" the song to figure out what it is.

Then Ma, who appears to be at Birdie's pandemic party, shows up and tells them it is "Bach's 'Little Fugue in G Minor.'"

While it makes sense for a famous cellist to be the one to reveal that information, it doesn't make sense for Ma to be at a party like this. How was he invited? What is the crossover between Birdie's circle and his? This cameo didn't fit seamlessly within the storyline.

Benoit Blanc's (Daniel Craig) accent will always be a strange but satisfying addition to the "Knives Out" universe. With a distinctively French name, why does Blanc have a Southern accent and speak as if he came right out of a Western film?

At times, Blanc almost feels like a parody. He's funny and he's engaging but you also can't help but want to make fun of the accent, prompting some pretty funny social media reactions in the last week.

Johnson tackles the pandemic all the way through "Glass Onion," while also giving the characters (and the audience) a break from COVID-19.

And although it was refreshing to see the director taking a lighthearted approach to it all, Birdie Jay's mesh mask just felt a little too reckless and cringy.

Yes, it was clearly riffing on Lana Del Rey's infamous metallic mesh mask that she wore during a book signing and in the music video for "Chemtrails Over The Country Club," but it was instantly eyeroll inducing.

"Knives Out" was so successful because Johnson's script managed to weave its whodunnit mystery with clever cultural references that went hand-in-hand with its social commentary.

But this time around, the plethora of references just felt like overkill in an attempt to recapture some of the same sharp magic.

Yes, Benoit playing "Among Us" with his famous friends was funny, but by the time the film started mentioning Jared Leto's fictional kombucha and Jeremy Renner's hot sauce, it was all too much.

And when Lionel (Leslie Odom Jr.) joked that Miles "Social Network'd" Andi by swindling her out of the company that they created, it plucks the audience out of the film entirely to think about David Fincher's Facebook flick.

But the cringe isn't just restricted to pop culture references and jokes. In fact, there's a key plot point which is an instant facepalm moment because it's so utterly stupid.

During the flashbacks to before all the island shenanigans, Andi (Janelle Monae) discovers the napkin with the original plans for the company she created with Miles, which would've been the key piece of evidence she needed in her court case against Miles.

So, why does Andi then send a photo of the evidence to the entire group? This lets them know that she has something that could potentially get them all in legal trouble for perjury instead of just going to the authorities. It's a ridiculous plot point.

If it wasn't already obvious enough that the main plot of the mystery blasts billionaires and tech-bros, the film sticks Miles in one of Apple CEO Steve Jobs' iconic outfits: a black turtleneck jumper and jeans.

It was way too on the nose. We get it — Miles doesn't have an original thought and wants to make his company, Alpha, as successful as Apple.

Obviously, it's not the worst crime ever committed on the big screen, but it's a little annoying.

The final nail in the cringe coffin comes right before the explosive finale, as Helen (Janelle Monae) gloats in front of Miles that she found the napkin and can expose his various murderous misdeeds because of it.

But Helen spends just a little too long (literally) waving it in his face, and he quickly burns it with a lighter.

If she'd just kept it to herself and away from Miles, then she could've used the evidence when the group eventually leave the island.

Sure, it's great that all the carnage pushes the other "disruptors" to testify against their friend, but it would be a lot easier with hard evidence.