by Jon Del Arroz, PJ Media:
Amid a lackluster opening Friday, with a reported $27.5 million gross at the box office, The Marvels continues to underperform expectations, putting it on track to have the lowest Marvel Cinematic Universe opening ever.
Disney didn’t have high hopes for the movie, reporting it was likely to open around $55-60 million in gross just before its release, but now box office projections have been cut again to expect $47-52 million after its opening night.
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With popular reviewers like Nerdrotic coming out of the film calling it “god awful,” Disney scrambled to get positive coverage of The Marvels as advance reviews had a 56% positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes going into the release, with those numbers boosting to 62% after some of the less trusted access media reviewers came in for the film. The Top Critics on the site, who are considered the most trusted by audience members, rate the movie a dismal 42% as of this writing.
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The reason for failure seems obvious — Disney has done everything it can to gut the MCU over the last couple of years and create what online critics call an M-She-U, replacing beloved characters like Iron Man, Captain America, and Thor with female and minority knockoffs which don’t inspire the audience to come out and see the movies.
Couple the diversity castings with writers and directors who don’t seem to understand the superhero genre, and it spells disaster. Disney’s seen a string of failures since critics panned the first Captain Marvel movie. At that point, Marvel’s brand from Avengers: Endgame was strong enough that the film was lifted to more than $1 billion gross anyway, but those days are long behind as moviegoers don’t trust Disney Marvel to produce anything entertaining.
