The Flash - Nostalgia Critic

It's one of the biggest bombs of the year (in a year with a ton of bombs), so where did things go wrong with DC's fastest blunder? Nostalgia Critic takes a look at The Flash.

The Flash is a 2023 American superhero film based on the DC Comics character of the same name. Produced by Warner Bros. Pictures, DC Studios, Double Dream, and the Disco Factory, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures, it is the 13th installment in the DC Extended Universe (DCEU). The film was directed by Andy Muschietti from a screenplay by Christina Hodson, based on a story by Joby Harold and the writing team of John Francis Daley and Jonathan Goldstein. It stars Ezra Miller as Barry Allen / The Flash alongside Sasha Calle, Michael Shannon, Ron Livingston, Maribel Verdú, Kiersey Clemons, Antje Traue, and Michael Keaton. In the film, Barry travels back in time to prevent his mother's death, which brings unintended consequences.

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[koneheadcokehead]

Another Fun Fact: Director Andy Muschietti described Michael Keaton's reaction to the Batcave set and Batman suit, "He stayed like this [eyes wide] for a while. I didn't want to interrupt him. I just wanted for him to take it in. Who knows what was going on there? But something was going on there... It was funny because at one point during the scene where we shot him in the full suit, he was like, 'Can you take a picture? It's for my grandson.' It was one of those moments where he really showed something was inside that was very emotional."

[koneheadcokehead]

Fun Fact: Michael Keaton's original Batman suit was infamously restrictive, forcing him to move his entire body to look around. For this movie, the costume designers created a more flexible suit that allowed for greater range of motion, but when Keaton first tried it on, he insisted it be made stiffer

[Macapta]

There’s a deleted scene where the two Barry’s get suspicious as to why Bruce can know so much about time travel. Felt like a scene that should have been left in.

[Macapta]

The Supergirl costume is hands down one of my favourites ever. It’s so clean and bright, it screams superhero and cuts a fantastic silhouette.

[meanMUGGINify]

The delivery of, "but raisins aren't bananas" was just too good. Thank you Critic

[jasonritner]

The two biggest things I take from this movie.

1 - That scene with his mom absolutely, 100% makes this worth at least one watch. That scene was better than most of this movie.

2 - I have been on board the Keaton as Old Man Bruce in a Batman Beyond movie for a long time, and this movie solidified that opinion for me in a way that nothing else could. We deserve that movie.

[WaterShipUp]

Thanks!The main problem with this version of Barry Allen besides being played by Ezra Miller, (seriously, why?) is turning him into a constant whiner who never stops with the jokes. Barry Allen is supposed to be a great forensic scientist with a lighthearted, cocky sense of humor. At least we got to see Michael Keaton again. Seems like he had fun with this.

[nicksmyth]

the biggest good thing I can say about this movie is when I saw this in theaters with my 73 year old dad and older brother, during the scene where you see all the other universes, my father got really excited and nostalgic over seeing George Reeves Superman and the Jay Garrick Flash, who my dad says was “(his) Flash and Superman growing up”

[shawnn]

There were so many good moments, every scene with his mother, the way he interacts with his younger self and realises how annoying he can be and matures, Keaton as Batman knocking out a Kryptonian.

[ShinySephiroth]

Saying that this is like the Snyder Flash meeting the Whedon Flash is freaking brilliant

[koneheadcokehead]

God i feel so bad for Michael Keaton doing this film he deserved so much better

[tangroro]

This film is what we all feared No Way Home was gonna be like

[NefemOsorio]

When i was watching this movie i thought, ''Why would James Gunn recommend this so hard?'' and then i got into the final scene with Barry's mom and said ''Oh, that's why''.
This is movie is the clear example of an imperfect film. Didn't do great in a lot of moments, but the moments it did right, boy they are so great.

[klimmr]

14:15 Wow, if I had a nickel for any time spaghetti was used in a Multiverse Story, I'd have 3 nickels. Not two, THREE!!!

[BlazeMakesGames]

Part of the issue I have with the plot is that it feels weird to have a story with time travel with the lesson being "you can't change the past" and the like, but then have the character be able to change the past. And like sometimes that can work, but the premise of Flashpoint was always so strange with the idea of changing the past resulting in completely unrelated events happening. Like it'd be one thing if it was just a matter of "oh you saved the one you loved but you never became a hero" because that has a logical throughline. Having it also make everything else worse even though things like Superman and Batman should be completely unrelated to what Barry did just makes no sense and muddles the moral a bit. I know that's how it plays out in the original comic but I don't think it works well there either. (Also I'm pretty sure the main reason it did all that in the comic is due to editors wanting to use the comic as an excuse for a reboot)

[willpower]

Honestly seeing Micheal Keaton return as Batman was the highlight of the movie for me. He was the first Batman I had ever saw when I was little and he along with Jack Nicholson’s Joker are engraved into my memory. It made me want to play Batman Arkham Knight using the 1989 skin. You can see a fighting difference.

[GKitz]

"Flash" was as quickly dropped from the cinemas as quickly he runs.

[blackbulls]

I would highly recommend the animated movie flashpoint paradox because it involves with time travel, the use flash villains, justice league played a huge part of the story and show barry that his actions has devastating consequences

[tenzhitihsien]

One of Keaton's best Batman moments in the '89 Batman movie was also not in the Bat suit. He just does a really great job of portraying Bruce Wayne dropping the facade and giving an intense Batman look.

[lesterwilliamsjr]

I really admire how My Adventures with Superman handled the multiverse. Instead of making this grand epic multi episode story arc it was treated as a regular episode.

It was freshing having the multiverse being a small section of another story rather then it being built up as the end or the entire story.