This movie came out the same weekend I was at Starfury: Witchbomb, so I decided to go and see it the day after I came back from London…and, to be honest, I really enjoyed this movie.

When I saw the trailer, this movie looked like it was more of a comedy than…well, like most of the movies in the DCEU. I still wanted to see it, as the superhero genre is one of my favourites; right up there with the horror genre. And don’t get me wrong…there is humour in this movie, but it’s also more serious than the trailer portrays it as. I think it’s a shame that wasn’t included in the trailer, as I think some of the serious elements made the movie much stronger.

Jaime was an easy character to like in this movie. The casual racism he and his family had to deal with was a strong element of this movie. For instance, there’s a scene where a receptionist deliberately mispronounces his name…and it’s one of the very few times I wanted to reach through the screen and punch a fictional character. Interestingly enough, that feeling was also triggered with the main villain of this movie: Victoria Kord. For different reasons, but I think the root cause of deciding someone who looked different was somehow beneath them lay underneath her actions at one point.

I thought it was interesting to see how Khaji-Da had its own personality, even though the trailer seemed to make it come across as merely a robot or an AI. One of the most important parts of this movie was Jaime and Khaji-Da finally completing their bond, which I thought came across really well…especially when Jaime’s mother did treat Khaji-Da as a separate entity from her son.

I did, unfortunately, find Milagro to be quite an irritating character at first, when she snatches the scarab from Jaime and refuses to give it back. I understand the whole sibling relationship, but there’s something I absolutely hate about one person snatching something from another and refusing to give it back. However, I liked Milagro later on in the movie, along with the rest of her family. I liked how they all came together…and I truly loved how Nana reacted to things after it all went so badly initially.

On the whole, I really enjoyed this movie. It was a great superhero one which also tackled some really heavy issues. There were some quite powerful scenes in this movie that really spoke to me. I really hope that this reboot of the DCEU won’t result in Jaime and his family getting written out of the universe, because I’d really like to see more of them in future movies…especially as a mid-credits scene indicated there was more of this story to be told.