Venom is a financial box office success, although it garnered less-than-stellar critical reviews. According to creator Todd McFarlane, the critics’ ages are to blame for the bad reception of the film.
Rotten Tomatoes scores the film at 29%. It is important to note that RT scores are becoming unreliable due to manipulation. This doesn’t mean that the film is not fun. Venom is a wild ride and the best adaptation of the character to date.
In an interview with Yahoo, McFarlane basically says that the critics don’t like the film because they are too old and don’t get it:
“It was a big roller coaster ride. Visually, everything was coming at you. I think at times… the critics get it wrong in that they forget their age. They come in, and they’re 42 years old, and they come in with their attitude and they’re going, ‘Stop it.’
What if you were 16, 15, and you were watching this movie? You would love it… Of
course you would love it. This thing delivered everything it was supposed to. It was gnarly, it was nasty, it has a big cool Venom, which was what I was looking for.[That] was my bias – I just wanted to see the visualness of Venom that I had created 30 years prior.”
Venom is far from a failure, and the consensus amongst fans is that the film is great. The film had a budget of $100 million and made $854 million worldwide. A sequel is already underway.
“Venom” has made $854 million worldwide to date on a $100 million budget. Work on a sequel is already underway.
