The stakes are higher for them. They’re not just trying to figure out the new reality of having an overnight superhero in Jaime, they’re also trying to understand what it means for the already precarious place they occupy in their world.

Blue Beetle does contain glimmers of something fresh, but it also feels like too little, too late in the face of oncoming changing tide in audience tastes.

Blue Beetle has moments that are plentifully enjoyed, overall when the humor works, although it does so at the cost of those clichés it supposedly aims to avoid. [Full review in Spanish]

With Blue Beetle’s 127-minute runtime, the film had enough meat to savour. I thought the debut of Jaime and the Blue Beetle was endearing and funny—with a good amount of cheesiness to not make me feel lactose-intolerant of the overall viewing.