Prepare yourselves, Netflix viewers: the critically panned Spider-Man spin-off Madame Web is now available on the platform.
The home release comes two months after its Valentine’s Day cinema launch, which bombed due to poor reviews and widespread derision.
Dakota Johnson plays Cassandra Webb, a clairvoyant paramedic whose mother died while researching spiders in the Amazon.
She must safeguard three young superpowered women, played by Sydney Sweeney, Isabela Merced, and Celeste O’Connor, from the threatening Ezekiel Sims (Tahar Rahim).
Sony Pictures, which owns the Spider-Man arm of cinematic powerhouse Marvel, hired the writers from the similarly reviled Morbius for the project.
Madame Web was so awful that people wondered if superhero flicks were finally going.
It grossed $15.1 million in its first weekend and an additional $8 million by midweek.
When the negative reviews and memes began, most people expressed morbid curiosity about whether her web truly connected them all.
‘A vision for all who wish to see… Madame Web is now on Netflix,’ tweeted the streamer as X users immediately roasted the film.
‘Genuinely one of the worst films I’ve ever attempted to watch. I made it half way through before I had to quit,’ wrote Brian on X.
Ryan added: ‘Some choices were made. I’m 27 minutes in. Script is bad. What was that opening scene and the spider people?! 😅😂 shot like a soap opera and the villain was WAY too clean for being in the Amazon researching.’
‘I’m going to watch just to see how bad it was,’ joked Chris Barnes as Ugo added: ‘Nobody is interested in that sorry.’
The intensity is almost personal, with Madame Web having the lowest average Rotten Tomatoes score (12%) of any major superhero film in the last decade.
Dakota, 34, began criticising the film while on the promotional tour, making sneaky remarks about how bad it was.
Sydney even joked that no one had seen it when she appeared on Saturday Night Live.
Sony is undoubtedly betting that Madame Web’s cyber existence piques enough morbid interest to entice some viewers, but no sequel has been announced thus far.
