#disney-acquisition

#disney-acquisition

After being delayed for more than two years, The New Mutants opened in theaters to fulfill Disney's contractual obligations and was largely received with derision by both critics and the few audience members who bothered to show up. While it may not be a lost masterpiece, it's hardly the atrocity that its reputation suggests, and there's no reason it shouldn't take its rightful place among the highly variable mutant movies made during this landmark period in superhero filmmaking.

Marvel's acquisition of Fox solved a massive problem for the MCU, bringing the X-Men and Fantastic Four into the fold after 17 years of absence.