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Hola amigos, buenas vibras para todos.
**Hello friends, good vibes to all.
The superhero genre, if you can call it that, is one that in recent years has been in clear decline and exhaustion on the part of the fans and the same production companies that are not able to deliver quality productions. Some time ago I said that I would not go back to the movies to see anything related to these people with special powers, whether from Marvel or DC and keeping to that word and after its release to digital today we are going to talk about Blue Beetle, the latest from the DC Comics universe now under the mind of James Gunn. The last thing I saw from DC was The Flash, a movie with more dark than light, which leads me to say that Blue Beetle with a much smaller budget takes it down the middle very easily, at least for me.
Blue Beetle has a particularity, for better or worse that will depend on each person, and that is that it is aimed entirely at the Latino audience but to the point that in several passages of the film I felt I was watching a typical Mexican novel. Many references, sayings, behaviors, a whole idiosyncrasy that I personally enjoyed a lot because at the end it becomes humorous and makes you smile a couple of times in a very natural way. And even the plot resembles one of those productions with its peculiar characters; now, does this make it less than any other? - Not for me, although it is known that its box office was a failure. But well, let's talk a little about this new attempt by DC Comics to revive something that is extremely dead.
With the unmistakable rhythm of Calle 13 with Atrévete-te-te-te begins this story in which Jaime Reyes (Xolo Maridueña), the same of Karate Kid, is a young man like any other that the only thing he wants to do with his life is to help his family to continue to emerge after a series of bad news. As I said, it's not that this family is particular, it's just that this is how our Latino families are, cheerful, noisy, not very discreet but with immense love and affection and that's what we see from the start. The thing is that in this job search, by mere chance, he runs into Jenny Kord (Bruna Marquezine), the daughter of one of the founders of the company Kord, one that is responsible for creating special armor for combat using the latest technology.
After a series of unfortunate events, a scarab of alien nature falls into Jaime's hands. What our protagonist quickly discovers is that the beetle is another armor but with a certain conscience capable of destroying whatever comes in its way. From here we will see how Jaime, already a full-fledged superhero, will be able to control and understand this new change in his life while he will have to protect his family from those who are after this artifact. As said, this is a film where family roots predominate, this will be the engine of everything that happens, even on both sides.
It is more than known that both Marvel and DC have their counterparts in each universe, to understand a little the nature of Blue Beetle is as if we were saying that we are seeing the Venom of DC. This one is more technological and artificial but in the end is almost the same, they are entities that through a symbiosis join the respective host to become one at the time of need. So it is not that it is a copy of the Marvel character but it has always been so. I think this is what makes people a little tired and hence the box office failure, people want something new, quality and not to be bringing out characters that seem to be not as relevant as they think. Blue Beetle could have potential in the future? - It will depend on James Gunn but if you ask me I would think so, maybe something with a different vision and better made.
Something that did surprise me was the blessed use of CGI, remarkably better used than in Flash, it seems crazy but I promise you it's not. I liked Flash, it could have been a hundred times better but I liked it but when I saw the scenes where these computerized images are used here in Blue Beetle I was a little amazed by the quality they had, I immediately compared them with those of Flash and I laughed. The scenes were very well done, I never felt I was watching something of bad quality, the design of the suit and everything around it was also top notch. I don't know if the fight scenes were made by Xolo himself, I know he knows this kind of movements and choreographies, but they were also very cool, in these aspects the movie is really good and worthy.
Plot. It is a very familiar movie, too much I would say. It is one where the protagonism to those secondary characters is often excessive with the desire to try to be funny and make everything something that is "out of the box", to make the course of the story a little more unpredictable. That this is so makes that throughout the film we notice a lot of sentimentality, a lot of deep conversations, typical relationships between family members, I do not know, sometimes I felt that many times I was not watching a superhero film, I already said it but it is necessary to rephrase it. This is what perhaps made my interest drop quite a bit in several moments, super unnecessary things happened, seeing a grandmother grab a futuristic machine gun almost her size was something I didn't see coming and I really don't know what to think about it.
Xolo is a decent actor, personally I didn't like him, I felt he was very melodramatic, sometimes even exaggerated in what he did, maybe he is one of the reasons why this movie wasn't as successful as expected. It wasn't bad, I just didn't like it at all. The one I did have a good time with was Rudy (George Lopez), Jaime's uncle. He was in charge of giving a certain spark to all the situations, evidently being a comedian he has the necessary grace to make people laugh. A totally multifaceted and fresh character. As for the rest, Jenny was average as well as the other members of the family, nothing remarkable. We must mention Susan Sarandon, an established star who played the villain. Unfortunately, she was not outstanding either.
7.5/10. The film is not bad, honestly it is not, the detail is that it has those elements that I mentioned that for me took away a little of its appeal, maybe others will say that precisely those details were the magic that made people like it in spite of everything. You have to remember that just because the box office was bad doesn't mean that people didn't like it when they saw it. Good CGI and good scenes. Do I recommend it? - Yes, it's different but it's worth a look. It has a duration of two hours. Here is the trailer.
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Bueno mi gente por hoy es todo, espero que les haya gustado. ¡Un abrazo a todos, nos vemos en la próxima!
***Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it. ¡A hug to everyone, see you next time!
