Sony’s Babysitter’s Club, Madame Webb, debuts an (idle) Anti-heroine with no Athletic Ability and a Never before Seer-like-Powers
Her web didn’t connect us after all.
Sony’s not-so-amazing-spider-verse superhero film, Madame Webb, debuts a 14% rotten rated by the world’s most trusted source, Rotten Tomatoes, giving on-lookers doubt that the film will reach a happy ending. In numbers and digits, that is for executives. The Fifty Shades of Nothing star, Dakota Johnson, plays a 30-year-old protagonist mutant whose alter ego is a New York City paramedic named Cassandra Webb. (You can probably guess where the storyline proceeds from here.)
The film introduced us to breakthrough young and talented actors building a solid supporting cast with Julia Carpenter (played by Sydney Sweeney), Anya Corazon (played by Isabela Merced), and Mattie Franklin (played by Celeste O’Connor.) The trailer showcased the spider girls wearing three different costumes since we have seen it for two minutes… without any action.
This is not the standard of a cinematic experience for a breakthrough superhero film. We were catfish of what may have potentially become an empowering s-hero on a journey of self-discovery.
I believe the downfall of Madame Webb was the non-existent fighting action sequences every Marvel has never failed to execute. Headlining "in association with Marvel" should be dismissed because the plot seemed like the producers who pretend to like superheroes and not read a single comic book in their life decided to green lit for profiting businesses.
It is not arguable that casting Johnson was the right choice. Her emotional range is compared to a teaspoon, delivering blunt lines and no ambition to bring Madame Webb's iconic character to life.
On the bright side, the anticipation of the narrative of three teenage girls becoming the next generation of superheroes can bring Sony and Marvel onto the next stage of trying for a sequel after (hopefully) learning their mistakes. And this was not the first one. A disappointing start thr that seemed like a first year’s film student pitch and Madame Webb has made Morbius, her cousin, look tall.
