With the overwhelming amount of negative reviews by critics it would seem Suicide Squad’s reputation of “the worst of the worst” has a double meaning. However, the ragtag team of super villains turned weapons of justice has stolen audience’s hearts. So how is that a movie with 26 percent on Rotten Tomatoes can turn out a record breaking profit of $133 million in its opening weekend?

Let’s start from the beginning, the trailer. It showed a great deal of fun action packed clips, which  worked to draw attention to the movie and Harley Quinn’s butt. It seemed like a mix of Deadpool and Guardians of the Galaxy which did incredibly well and that was what DC needed right now.

So with the hope for the movie to be good, people and critics lined up on August fifth to see if this would be the hero DC deserves. When the reviews rolled in it and it wasn’t a surprise that it was bad but how bad seemed unbelievable.

“‘Suicide Squad’ ends up feeling more like the exec. producer’s gonzo effects-saturated ‘Sucker Punch’”, said Peter Debruge of Variety.

Joe Morgenstern, a critic from the Wall Street Journal, writes “Suicide Squad amounts to an all-out attack on the whole idea of entertainment. In two words, it’s ugly trash.”

Ouch…

So while critics hated Suicide Squad, people seemed to decide that it, “wasn’t that bad,”.

“I thought it was a pretty good movie,” senior Ceara Clementi explained. “Even though I’m partial towards Marvel I still enjoyed it.”

It’s often that audiences’ main goal for going to the movies is to be entertained and not to criticize so it’s expected to have a difference. However, The Atlantic provided a visual to show how extreme this difference is.

http://imgur.com/O1UcDG5

There is a 45 percent difference between fans and critics!(Of course its predecessor Batman v. Superman is in second for fan v. critics.)

This can happen both ways too. The 2003 Hulk was a stellar film but for fans it didn’t felt they didn’t enough smashing, thus not entertained. So it seems that critics are fans of movies, but not superheroes, which is fine but when it clouds the judgement of a film it causes an unfair critiquing system.

All in all, see the film for yourself rather than blindly trusting critics.