Blue Beetle Review: Tony Stark called. He wants his suit back.
This is not the bug-themed super hero movie you were looking for.
Rating: 7 out of 10
Like a majority of movie goers, I was not familar with Blue Beetle, so this movie would have been an excellent introduction on the Blue Beetle origin as well as extend the DC super hero roster. Instead, it seemed like a mash-up of generic super hero movies without anything to differientiate it, which is a shame because the movie billed itself as the first Latino super hero. Similar to Barbie, I wanted to like Blue Beetle more than I did, but it just missed the mark.
The movie takes place in a dystopian future similar to the video game, Cyberpunk 2077, but unlike the latter, could not capitalize on the universal themes like the importance of family, widening income inequality and the privitization of security forces.
Similar to how Barbie is accused of being a fascist, Rudy Reyes (played by George Lopez), the main character's uncle, accuses Batman of being a fascist. Look up the definition of fascism and you'll find the Merriam-Webster defintion as follows: political philosophy, movement, or regime (such as that of the Fascisti) that exalts nation and often race above the individual and that stands for a centralized autocratic government headed by a dictatorial leader, severe economic and social regimentation, and forcible suppression of opposition.
If you read through that whole definition of fascism, then congratulations, you've done more research and reading on fascism than the writers of both Barbie and Blue Beetle combined.
Blue Beetle is not my first bug-themed super hero movie of choice (cough, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, cough), but was enjoyable enough to watch. The movie had an opportunity to address complex world issues, but disappointingly glosses over them like a third grader's definition of facism.
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