**BLUE BEETLE Discussion Megapost** 2023-08-18 🪲🦸 - eviltoast
Title Blue Beetle
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Runtime 02:07:00
Release Date (USA): August 18, 2023
Director: Angel Manuel Soto
Main Cast: Xolo Maridueña, Adriana Barraza, Damián Alcázar, Raoul Max Trujillo, Susan Sarandon, George Lopez
Summary: After Jaime Reyes graduates from college and returns to his hometown Palmera City, he is chosen to become a symbiotic host to the Scarab, an ancient alien biotechnological relic that grants him a powerful exoskeleton armor, turning him into the superhero Blue Beetle.

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  • Jordan Lund@lemmy.oneEnglish
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    1 year ago

    So I’m an old school Blue Beetle fan from back in the 70s. I was getting the Modern Comics reprints of the Charleton stuff from the 60s:

    https://box01.comicbookplus.com/viewer/29/29befccc2cde787632eaee5aa35ca696/0.jpg

    Up through the 80s when he was knocked off for Nite Owl in the Watchmen, his own book at DC, getting shot in the head by Maxwell Lord (Wonder Woman 84 Maxwell Lord).

    I even remember the Xaime Reyes reboot…

    So let me just say, +1 - No notes. Everything about this movie is wonderful. Yeah, there was little too much of this:

    https://youtu.be/n42PunZ3Xno#t=1m30s

    But… once the bugs are worked out… yeah, it’s all good. There’s a lot to like here. You might think Rudy is the new breakout character… no, surprise! It’s Nana.

    A full on Bug sequence set to Kickstart My Heart? Yeah, I’m down for that. 80’s Kord Tech built on a Nintendo Power Glove? Sure, why not?

    Early mid credits sequence teasing a sequel, end credits sequence featuring a TV show gag used earlier in the movie.