The New Mutants Honest Trailer glibly compares the teenage mutants to the Suicide Squad. Based on the X-Men team of the same name, The New Mutants was directed by Josh Boone and starred Maisie Williams, Anya Taylor-Joy, Charlie Heaton, and several other actors as a group of young mutants who fights to escape a secret hospital facility. Considered one of the most cursed movies in recent memory, The New Mutants had its release delayed for nearly two and a half years thanks to several events like Disney’s 20th Century Fox acquisition, planned reshoots, and the coronavirus pandemic. It eventually came out on August 28 to scathing reviews and calamitous box-office performance, with fans and critics calling it a disappointing end to Fox’s reign over X-Men properties.
It didn’t take long for Screen Junkies to give the much-derided film the Honest Trailer treatment, which happens to reference another ragtag group of superhumans. Not only does the trailer make light of The New Mutants‘ poorly executed genre-mashing and multiple delays, but it also at one point compares the team of teen mutants to the Suicide Squad, DC’s team of antiheroes that starred in the similarly panned 2016 film of the same name. Watch The New Mutants Honest Trailer below:
Like The New Mutants, Suicide Squad was not a hit with critics upon release, with many calling it flat and formulaic. However, unlike The New Mutants, the film was a monster hit at the box office, earning $746 million worldwide to become one of the highest-grossing movies of 2016. James Gunn’s upcoming standalone sequel, The Suicide Squad, seems to be DC and Warner Bros.’s way of rectifying the negative reception to the 2016 movie. If that proves successful, Marvel and Disney will likely follow that pattern by fitting a film centered on the New Mutants team somewhere within the MCU’s long slate of films in development.
