The excitement wears off in suitably speedy fashion as ‘The Flash’ gets trashed for very familiar reasons

If there’s one thing comic book fans love to do when it comes to blockbuster live-action adaptations, it’s sharpen their knives immediately after the initial buzz wears off. The Flash may have won over more than a few doubters after debuting a showstopping first trailer, but the backlash is already underway.

Despite being billed as one of the greatest superhero movies he’d ever seen by no less of an expert than DC Studios co-CEO James Gunn, it was always going to be the case that a hardy band of SnyderVerse defenders would pile in to pillory the Scarlet Speedster’s long-awaited solo debut for making sweeping multiversal changes to established canon.

Being a big budget and effects-driven epic, though, it wasn’t but a moment before the visual effects were being poured over with the online equivalent of a fine-toothed comb, and the critics weren’t best pleased with what they found.

While we can always trot out the old excuse of “but there’s still four months to go until release,” it would be reasonable to expect The Flash to be as close to 100 percent complete as possible given the myriad of delays that have seen it continually kicked back in the aftermath of not just the pandemic, but a couple of boardroom reshuffles, too.

Needless to say, not everyone is going to be pleased with the end product regardless of how it turns out, but let’s spare a thought for Hollywood’s CGI specialists in all of this, who happen to be the arguably the most overworked and underpaid creatives in the business.