Ms. Marvel directors Adil El Arbi and Billal Fallah have spoken out regarding the new Disney+ series’ review-bombing shortly after its premiere on June 8.The show sees Iman Vellani play Kamala Khan – the MCU’s first Muslim and South Asian superhero – a Pakistani-American teenager based in New Jersey who becomes the titular Ms.
Marvel.The show’s IMDb page has been inundated with seemingly baseless one-star reviews, dragging down its overall rating to 6.5 within a day of its release.
The overall rating now stands at 6.2, with 7,535 reviews coming in at one star – more than all the two to nine-star reviews combined, but still less than its 9,810 five-star reviews.Ms.
Marvel has received overwhelmingly positive reviews elsewhere, leading many to presume the flood of one-star reviews are the result of review-bombing – attempting to influence a film’s perceived success and quality by spamming poorly-rated reviews, regardless of the film itself.
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