Review of Blue Beetle (2023) by Bmaster4616 — 27 Aug 2023

Well, it was ass. Straight garbage with a first half that tricks you into thinking it'll be good, but then nose dives off a cliff into unfunny mediocrity. The beginning of the film wasn't a super grounded film or anything but felt like we were getting a cool idea for an SH film, surrounded by a tight family group, but then the cliches started pouring in. Also, with cringe/unfunny jokes about a spaceship making farting noise to a joke that was so unfunny the first time, they preceded to make the joke over and over like beating a dead horse. After the cliches and terrible jokes came the awful plot holes. From a person's motivation to people's decisions, blue beetle just kept getting more and more atrocious. It's remarkable how a film that started off pretty well spiraled into such mediocrity that I was rolling my eyes constantly throughout the end of the film.

Overall, Blue Beatle isn't Wolverine origins or Fan 4 stic levels of awful, but it's one of those SH stuck in the past and wasting potential. This could have been like a spiderverse with cool minority characters and a strong family movie (which they had 2 scenes with all of them together), but got painted over with the typical bad SH cliches. Next time, if you're going to make an SH like this, at least take the good cliches of SH films and not the ones that make people roll their eyes.

4.5/10.

E.

P.s. of course, geneal audiences like this.