So I watched The Blue Beetle

I'll admit, I was pleasantly surprised.

I should have expected a good film from Warner Brothers and the DC Universe, but you can never tell these days. The last several super-hero films have been laden with Political messaging and a storyline that reads like it has been dreamt up by a group of 10 year olds. I won't mention any names, but let's call it the Urvel Maniverse.

Right from the outset The Blue Beetle had all the hallmarks of a film that was going to start educating us on how we should be better people as whiteys, and to stop stepping over the poor poor minorities. We saw that when they started out with a struggling Mexican family illegally set in Palmera City - a fictional place in America inspired by Miami, Florida.

But there was none of that at all, and not only that but they casted Xolo Maridueña as the Blue Beetle who we all know and Love from Cobra Kai -- an offshoot TV series from the critically acclaimed The Karate Kid.

After 10 minutes of watching this I can quite positively say I was hooked. There was so many good things about this film that I loved. The humour, the action, the villains, and the backdrops. It never gets old but nothing quite says nostalgia action movie like something imagined on the Florida Keys. You remember those? When Florida seemed to be the home of almost every hit movie action film complete with bad ass villain. Ah, the memories.

Anyway. I sat enthralled all of the way through. The acting was spot on. At no point did I feel as if I was sitting through a film where the everyone was just going-through-the-motions, everyone was every bit as involved as their co-cast. It was really really good.

I don't tend to rave about films these days because over the last three to four years most of them I've tried to watch have absolutely sucked. Truth be told I've stopped buying films as of late because of the messaging, and because of the messaging it creates a sub par storyline. Gotta ham-fist those "men are bad" lines in somehow, right? Yeah, the storylines have really suffered because of that.

But this film was like a nice shining light in murky waters of sewage. This takes us back to superhero's of old where they valued honour and family.

Family played quite a role in this film. The emphasis on getting by as a team rather than going it alone was quite a theme in Blue Beetle. I really enjoyed this part because it's bringing back good culture to the masses; what we should all be aiming and striving for. Healthy family units that we all love and respect and support each other.

I also liked how they played to a realistic setting where the family seemed far more real than some perfectly seeded idealist Utopia that we have been getting as of late. The uncle was quite clearly scared that people would think he was homosexual when he was intimate with other men, but then you understood this because of his chequered past in the army. This is normal. This is what real people are like.

I enjoyed very much the big slice of realism we got from this.

I would say a lot more but I'd rather not spoil anything for you. But, when you do watch this -- I wonder if they modeled the villain on Hillary Clinton! Hah.

Peace.

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