Adam Devine reckons that the Marvel Cinematic Universe is contributing to the downfall of comedy movies.
Over the course of the emergence of the MCU, it is big budget flicks like The Avengers and Spider-Man that have tended to do business at the box office, while the success of comedy movies has been on the decline.
The prominence of streaming services has also been a contributing factor.
Devine has starred in such comedies as Pitch Perfect, Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates, The Out-Laws and television series The Righteous Gemstones.
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In his opinion, the public aren't as willing to spend their money on comedy movies at the cinema when bigger movies are available.
"People need more comedy than ever," he said on the This Past Week podcast.
“My theory: I think Marvel ruined it. I feel like superhero movies ruined comedies because you go to the theatre, and you expect to watch something that cost $200 million to make. Comedy movies aren’t that. So you’re like, ‘Why would I spend the same amount of money to go watch a little comedy in the theatre if I can spend that and go see something that is worth $200 million?’”
James Gunn slams 'lazy' superhero movies of recent years
DC Studios head of creative James Gunn believes that filmmakers have become "lazy" with the constant movie adaptations of comic books.
The Superhero movie boom started in the early 2000s with the release of X-Men and Spider-Man, but it wasn't until the Marvel Cinematic Universe found its feet that we started to get dozens of comic book adaptations, whether in television or in movies, each year.
When you combine that with DC Comics' attempts to create their own, similar, universe, then audiences have been bombarded with superhero films in recent years.
Gunn, who in 2022 was appointed in a new executive role at DC Studios for Warner Bros, believes these stories are being adapted into movies for the sake of it with no real care shown for the characters.
“People have gotten really lazy with their superhero stories,” the Guardians of the Galaxy director said on the Inside of You podcast.
“And they have gotten to the place where, ‘Oh, it’s a superhero, let’s make a movie about it.’ And then, ‘Oh, let’s make a sequel, because the first one did pretty well,’ and they aren’t thinking about, ‘Why is this story special? What makes this story stand apart from other stories? What is the story at the heart of it all? Why is this character important? What makes this story different that it fills a need for people in theatres to go see?’
“People have gotten a little lazy and there’s a lot of biff, pow, bam stuff happening in movies and I’m watching third acts of superhero films where I really just don’t feel like there’s a rhyme or reason to what’s happening… I don’t care about the characters. And they’ve gotten too generic.
“I like very serious superhero movies, and I like very comedic superhero movies, like ones that are a murder mystery but it’s with superheroes. I like to see these different types of stories, as opposed to seeing the same story told over and over again.”
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