THREE AND A HALF STARS
Young Latino man finds old gadget alien technology which makes it a powerful Super Hero. The reader may think that it is another step in political correctness and minority representation fever, but the character has existed for decades in the same universe as batman and superman.
Making it a movie, yes, of course, it goes that way. The interesting thing about this new product of supertypes is to combine the family comedy (another cliché: “Latino families” are more united) with adventure and strange humor: on the one hand, blows, whacks and jokes and, on the other, moments that recall the organic imagination of David Cronenberg (There is something of “Cronenberg for the little ones”, in fact, in the style of the film).
The best thing is that it doesn’t have too many pretensions and, for this reason, it encourages images, situations and dialogues (“Batman is a fascist”) that other productions would not contain. Perhaps because, originally, it was intended only for platforms. But on the big screen it looks great, and although it doesn’t escape the constants of the new genre (well, “new”…), it faces it with freshness and joy. It’s not little.
