Americans reject MAGA meanness as 'Superman' soars
Over the last few days, millions of Americans have gone to the movie theater to watch James Gunn’s new “Superman,” making it the No. 1 movie in the United States.
The movie’s success is another humiliating loss for the MAGA movement, which campaigned against the film’s pro-immigrant themes. But the film is also a resounding rejection of the bitter, cynical meanness that’s been a hallmark of President Donald Trump’s second term.
Since its release on July 11, the movie has earned more than $122 million and received a rating of 83% from critics and 93% from audiences on Rotten Tomatoes. That resounding success follows a full-throated meltdown from the right, slamming the movie as “woke” and predicting its failure. Conservatives were triggered after Gunn said that the film is about an “immigrant that came from other places.”
Actor Dean Cain, a Trump supporter who starred as Superman in the television series “Lois & Clark,” was representative of the ill-informed right-wing complaints about the film. Cain whined that the film was “woke” and said that calling the iconic character an immigrant would “hurt” box office receipts.
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