Critics have had mixed reactions to the new Supergirl movie, but they all say the same thing about this one moment.
Released this week, Supergirl is the second feature from the DCU following last year’s Superman, and stars Milly Alcock and Jason Momoa, and is directed by Craig Gillespie. The film follows 23-year-old Supergirl, who teams up with a young warrior to confront her past and defeat a common enemy.
The overall reaction to the film has been lukewarm, with many fans and critics enjoying the performances and the characters but not the plot or the writing. The film, at the time of writing, sits at 57% on Rotten Tomatoes.
But one thing everyone can agree on is that the needle drop played towards the end of the finale might just be the worst of the year.
In the big dramatic fight at the end of Supergirl, a cover of Jimmy Eat World’s ‘The Middle’ starts to play. This slow, melodic cover of ‘The Middle’ by Kelty Greye and KidMotel was first released in November 2023.
As Movie Web points out, “needle drops in superheromovies are far from uncommon, this one has incited backlash amongst the DCU fandom.”
An X user declared the song an “instant WOAT [worst of all time”. Freelance journalist Maxance Vincent agreed with that sentiment, saying the needle-drop moment “is so terrible I disintegrated in my seat.”
“When I heard everyone say Supergirl’s needle drop was bad, I genuinely thought it couldn’t be as bad as people were making it out to be. This is so much worse than they made it out to be,” another social media user wrote.
Another freelance journalist was one of the many to note that the originally pop punk version of ‘The Middle’ may have made more sense than the sad, slowed down cover of the 2001 track.
Supergirl is out in cinemas now.