Thankfully, Warner Bros. let ‘Blue Beetle’ be itself

Blue Beetle emerges as a crowd favorite in the superhero movie realm, overcoming obstacles to reach theaters.

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Its strengths include Xolo Maridueña's performance and thoughtful CGI.

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The film excels in cultural influences, notably through Jaime and his family's Mexican identity.

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Director Ángel Manuel Soto honed in on a unique cultural identity in the movie, an aspect he said could have been interferred with by the stuido but they gratefully left it untouched.

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The film's authentic cultural representation has become one of its most praised aspects. As Soto said, "The universality of our cultures exists in our specificity."

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