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| Title | Blue Beetle | |


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| | 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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[–] CoralMask146 4 points 1 year ago

Very pleasantly surprised that I enjoyed this. Had very low expectations considering that it's probably going to be irrelevant to the new DCU, but it's refreshing seeing a normal superhero film with very little references to a tie-in universe

Plus, the family aspect was done well!