The filmmakers like these characters, and the characters genuinely like each other, lending the movie real warmth. Our Blue Beetle review:
, its sibling in smaller-scale DC Comics adaptations with “heart,” rather than a swirling vortex of climactic garbage around which CG action figures whale on each other. In form, Jaime resembles the MCU version of Spider-Man: Youthful angst, reluctance to completely upend his life, all encased in tech he doesn’t fully understand–a lower-middle-class version of Iron Man.
That rich lady is Victoria Kord , who has taken over her family business following the mysterious disappearance of her brother, father to Jenny . Victoria has uncovered the Scarab; Jenny, in a moment of desperation-via-flirtation, has smuggled it away and passed it to Jaime; Jaime becomes the Blue Beetle against his will and must square off against Victoria and her chief minion Conrad Carapax , who has a supersuit of his own.
At just the moment when a lot of movies might sideline or imperil Jaime’s family, director Ángel Manuel Soto and screenwriter Gareth Dunnet-Alcocer place them in the spotlight, even downplaying the Beetle himself for a short period. The movie seems to genuinely like these characters – and, moreover, the characters seem to genuinely like each other, lendingsome real warmth amidst the standard business of super-suited enemies smashing into each other.
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