MADAME WEB First Reactions and Reviews Call It an "Embarrassing Mess" and a "Clunky, Poorly-Written" Film
Critics have seen Sony Pictures’ latest Marvel movie, Madame Web, and the reactions and reviews of the film have started flooding the internet. The reviews pretty much confirm what we all thought the movie would be, an “embarrassing mess” that is said to be even worse than Morbius. It’s also said that the movie is filled with “terrible, cornball dialogue” and “Sloppy.”
There are actually a few people who did like the movie, but most of the reviews paint it in a negative light. It’s a shame that Sony couldn’t pull together their resources and talent to make a good superhero movie. With audiences and fans feeling the superhero fatigue, we need a great superhero movie right now, but it doesn’t look like Madam Web is going to be it. The movie is just going to make everything worse.
Read through the reviews below and let us know what you think.
Here are a sampling of what other critics are saying about Madame Web:
"Madame Web has some good ideas, but poor execution mimicking the worst aspects of early 2000s comic book movies drags down the entire production into something as thin and flimsy as a spider web." - Bleeding Cool
"On the basis of Madame Web, however, Sony’s Spider-Man Universe is now completely lifeless—and in no need of resuscitation." - The Daily Beast
"There aren’t any exciting comic book teases to break down (there are teases of teases more than anything else) or satisfying emotional achievements to latch onto. It’s a story that only makes sense if you don’t think about it, filled with performances that aren’t very engaging, and then it ends. That ending does tease there could be more Madame Web to come, but we’d be very, very surprised if that ever happens." - Gizmodo
"If there’s one interesting thing in Madame Web, it’s how the film navigates the post-9/11 personal security landscape. Through Ezekiel’s villainous planning with his assistant, Madame Web shows how much privacy civilians voluntarily gave up — or the United States government took — all in the name of national security. It’s a rare satisfying element in a film that otherwise fails to deliver at every turn." - The Hollywood Reporter
"Madame Web has the makings of a interesting superhero psychological thriller, but with a script overcrowded with extraneous characters, basic archetypes, and generic dialogue, it fails the talent and the future of its onscreen Spider-Women." - IGN
"Johnson is one of the most naturally honest and gifted performers to ever play the lead role in one of these things, and while that allows her to elevate certain moments in this movie way beyond where they have any right to be, it also makes it impossible for her to hide in the moments that lay bare their own miserableness." - IndieWire
"Ultimately, Madame Web could have been a decent little B-side of a superhero film, but the terrible, cornball dialogue and lacklustre pace doom it early on." - JoBlo.com
"No matter how likeable Cassie and her friends are, they are powerless in the face of a plot that goes through the motions, revealing ‘shocking’ twists about her past and building to an overblown finale. Madame Web argues that no one’s future is written, but it is very easy to see exactly where this film is going." - Screen Daily
"Because if you thought 'Morbius' was bad, buckle up for 'Madame Web.' Directed by S.J. Clarkson ('Jessica Jones'), the psychological thriller (★½ out of four; rated PG-13; in theaters Wednesday) barely clears the painfully low bar set by Jared Leto’s pseudo-vampire flick." - USA Today
"In the end, 'Madame Web' feels like a cross between an extended soda commercial and a teaser trailer for still more spinoffs. 'Whatever the future holds, we’ll be ready,' Cassie promises. But you don’t have to be a soothsayer to see this particular franchise is D.O.A. — or a snob to expect better." - Variety
The synopsis for the film reads: “In a switch from the typical genre, Madame Web tells the standalone origin story of one of Marvel publishing’s most enigmatic heroines. The suspense-driven thriller stars Dakota Johnson as Cassandra Webb, a paramedic in Manhattan who may have clairvoyant abilities. Forced to confront revelations about her past, she forges a relationship with three young women destined for powerful futures… if they can all survive a deadly present.”
Madame Web stars Dakota Johnson's Cassandra "Cassie" Webb, Sydney Sweeney as Julia Carpenter/Spider-Woman, Isabela Merced as Anya Corazon/Araña, Celeste O’Connor as Mattie Franklin/Spider-Woman,Tahar Rahim as Ezekiel Sims, Emma Roberts, Tahar Rahim, Mike Epps (The Upshaws), and Adam Scott (Severance).
The film was directed by S.J. Clarkson (Jessica Jones), and it will be released in theaters on February 14th.