‘Supergirl’ Earns a Rotten Rating on Rotten Tomatoes

it’s a new DC Universe, but the results among critics are more or less the same.

The current DC Studios regime released its second film this week: supergirl Directed by Craig Gillespie and starring Milly Alcock as the Woman of Tomorrow. It may still be a box office hit, but it hasn’t fared as well with critics. As of this writing, it currently has a rating of 57 on the review aggregation website. rotten tomatoes. This is based on reviews from over 230 critics listed on the site.

That’s a clear drop from the first new DC Universe movie, last summer’s. Superman written and directed by James Gunn. It scored an 83 on Rotten Tomatoes, 26 points higher than Supergirl. Gunn is also co-CEO of DC Studios and as such oversees all of the company’s films, including Supergirl. But whatever input he had on the final product, it wasn’t enough to make it a critical success.

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That score, which to some extent is still changing, puts supergirl more in line with the much maligned DC Extended Universe launched in 2013 by director Zack Snyder. While some DCEU titles earned good reviews from critics, including wonder woman (rating 93 on Rotten Tomatoes) and Shazam! (90), eight different DCEU movies currently have poor scores on the site, including black adam (39), Snyder man of steel (56) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (28), and suicide squad (26).

Although I really enjoyed the Superman and I loved the new comic series supergirl on which it was based, I am among the 43 percent of critics who did not enjoy the film. How I put it in me reviewThe film’s creative problems are…

…particularly disappointing because the new DC Universe got off to such a promising start with last year’s Superman. Milly Alcock’s Supergirl appeared in that film and was so instantly likable in her brief time on screen that it generated high expectations that her spin-off doesn’t come close to matching. That’s despite the presence of Superman’s biggest scene-stealer, the rambunctious superdog Krypto, and even the Man of Steel himself, played by David Corenswet in a small but important supporting role.

Following The flash (which actually has a slightly new score of 63, if you can believe it) and Aquaman and the lost kingdom In 2023, Warner Bros. rebooted its DC team and brought in Gunn from Marvel to oversee the creative side of the company. He relaunched the DC cinematic universe with his new interpretation of Superman. That movie did well, but supergirl At least, it’s not as well reviewed by critics.

There are still reasons to be optimistic about DC’s future. this fall clay face It seems like a real change for the company and potentially very interesting. And they already have a new Superman the sequel is coming next year from Gunn and Corenswet, with another Batman movie from director Matt Reeves in the future. But if nothing else supergirl sample: These comic book movies are not easy to make.