‘Captain America’ Series Hits New Low on Rotten Tomatoes

The brand new Captain America film would possibly function a Courageous New World, nevertheless it’s a rotten one as nicely.

Critiques for the most recent Marvel movie on the aggregation web site Rotten Tomatoes haven’t been variety total. As of this writing, Courageous New World has earned a cumulative rating of 53 from 108 totally different evaluations from movie critics.

That makes Courageous New World simply the third “rotten” film in your entire Marvel Cinematic Universe — which incorporates 35 cinematic entries and counting — following 2021’s Eternals and 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania. 

In different phrases, the entire MCU’s “rotten” movies have been made within the final 4 years — nearly as good an indicator as any that the mega-franchise has hit a tough patch, not less than creatively talking. (From the time of the MCU’s creation in 2008 till late 2021, each single film produced by Marvel Studios earned a “contemporary” Rotten Tomatoes rating.)

On Rotten Tomatoes, any film with a mean rating under 60 is deemed “rotten.”

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The earlier movies within the Captain America movie sequence — The First Avenger, The Winter Soldier, and Civil Conflict — obtained Rotten Tomatoes scores of 80, 90, and 90 respectively, that means the brand new movie is by far probably the most poorly-reviewed within the long-running franchise. Courageous New World stars Anthony Mackie in his first outing because the MCU’s new Captain America, following Chris Evans’ retirement from the position after 2019’s Avengers: Endgame.

Right here is how Courageous New World stacks up with the opposite lowest-rated MCU films thus far:

As Courageous New World doesn’t open in theaters for a couple of days, and extra evaluations will probably be revealed by means of the weekend, this quantity may fluctuate a bit transferring ahead. However typically blockbusters get their highest Rotten Tomatoes scores from their first wave of early evaluations, with the later articles from extra normal movie critics usually harsher and fewer enthusiastic. Eternals, for instance, initially obtained a Rotten Tomatoes rating of 63 — already low for the MCU on the time — till extra unfavourable evaluations got here in and pushed that quantity down into the 40s.

So there may be nonetheless time for Courageous New World’s rating to go up — and there may be additionally the chance that it may go down additional. It may wind up turning into the lowest-scoring MCU film ever on Rotten Tomatoes. (The bottom-scoring TV present on Rotten Tomatoes, was Inhumans, which earned an 11. I believe that document continues to be protected for now.)

Captain America: Courageous New World premieres in theaters this weekend.

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