CREATURE COMMANDOS Is Now "Certified Fresh" As Final Rotten Tomatoes Score Is Revealed

DC Studios' new DCU is off to a tremendous start as a final Rotten Tomatoes score for Creature Commandos has been revealed and the "Certified Fresh" series ranks among the best-reviewed DC titles ever.

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By JoshWilding - Jan 11, 2025 09:01 AM EST

Filed Under: Creature Commandos

Creature Commandos debuted on Rotten Tomatoes with a perfect 100% score which, at the time, was based on just 10 reviews. Well, the first season has concluded and we now have a final score for the first DCU TV series: a "Certified Fresh" 95%.

The Max TV series has received widespread acclaim from the start and this leaves Creature Commandos level with The Penguin (95%), another series James Gunn's DC Studios played an active role in developing.

95% also means Creature Commandos is in the same ballpark as The Dark Knight (94%), Superman: The Movie (93%), Peacemaker (93%), and The Suicide Squad (90%). DC Studios' documentary, Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story, sts at 98%.

While Creature Commandos isn't quite as high-profile as this summer's Superman reboot, this is precisely what DC Studios and James Gunn needed. Not only should it dispel some of the scepticism surrounding this reboot but it suggests the DCU is in the right hands with Gunn and Peter Safran after the DCEU's many ups and downs.

You can read our full review here but we concluded by saying, "Delightfully deranged, Creature Commandos is a crazy, captivating, instant classic that puts the new DCU on the map while offering fans an endless list of reasons to return each week. James Gunn has delivered a monstrous must-see."

Creature Commandos has already been renewed for a second season which we'd imagine will premiere in late 2026/early 2027. You can read our recap of the finale here but the show ended with The Bride leading an all-new version of Task Force M.

#CreatureCommandos is Certified Fresh at 95% on the Tomatometer, with 39 reviews: https://t.co/cG0WY27OH2 pic.twitter.com/PKT3dwreLe
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) January 9, 2025

Creature Commandos tracks a secret team of incarcerated monsters recruited for missions deemed too dangerous for humans. When all else fails...they’re your last, worst option.

The cast features Steve Agee as Economos, Maria Bakalova as Princess Ilana, Anya Chalotra as Circe, Zoe Chao as Nina Mazursky, Frank Grillo as Rick Flag Sr., Sean Gunn as GI Robot & Weasel, David Harbour as Frankenstein, Alan Tudyk as Dr. Phosphorus, Indira Varma as The Bride, and Viola Davis as Amanda Waller.

Creature Commandos is written and executive produced by James Gunn. Based on DC characters and produced by DC Studios and Warner Bros. Animation, additional executive producers include Peter Safran, Dean Lorey, and Sam Register; Rick Morales serves as a supervising producer.

All episodes of Creature Commandos are now streaming on Max.

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RegularPoochie - 1/11/2025, 9:49 AM

Time to watch it.

AwesomePromoz - 1/11/2025, 11:00 AM

I have my criticisms but I loved the show.

Forthas - 1/11/2025, 9:49 AM

"...95% also means Creature Commandos is in the same ballpark as The Dark Knight (94%), Superman: The Movie (93%)..." No people were actually interested in those FILMS and actually watched it.

RealTurner - 1/11/2025, 10:20 AM

@Forthas - The large difference in the number of reviews makes the comparison pointless anyway.

Forthas - 1/11/2025, 11:07 AM

@RealTurner - I mean the list of reasons this comparison is ludicrous is LONG...

- Different mediums
- Number of reviews
- Films involve acting, lighting and set designs

I could go on! Truly a pathetic attempt to shill for this show. I hope the advanced early screening of Superman will be worth it!

MakeAmericaGrea - 1/11/2025, 9:51 AM

This franchise is going to be a disappointment too, isn't it?

HashTagSwagg - 1/11/2025, 9:52 AM

Hot damn, 39 reviews

MakeAmericaGrea - 1/11/2025, 9:53 AM

Top 10 Jokes James Gunn Made About Kids

ObserverIO - 1/11/2025, 9:54 AM

As far as the series goes, thumbs up. As far as the universe goes, jury's out 'til Superman.

RegularPoochie - 1/11/2025, 10:16 AM

@ObserverIO -

harryba11zack - 1/11/2025, 9:55 AM

I guess that means the gunn universe a is saved and will be a box ofice success, no longer need to worry about anything now. the mcu have no chance now it's all over for them. disney are probably scared shitless right now with this fresh rating, they'll probably sell their mcu rights over to the gunn show by the end of the week.

whynot - 1/11/2025, 11:08 AM

@harryba11zack - lol well can’t deny it was better then season 3 of what if

koolaidbag - 1/11/2025, 9:57 AM

I enjoyed my time with this show, I liked the characters, and I’m excited to see where this universe goes, and where these characters are expanded into. However, I will say when it was all said and done I felt like this show, at least this first season, was very light on plot. I felt like it could have easily just been an hour and a half movie, if they didn’t give every single character, their backstory.

Chewtoy - 1/11/2025, 10:08 AM

While I enjoyed many of the character moments in this show, the plotting was just bad. Shallow storytelling, with so much just skipped over… Circe’s vision does *way* too much heavy lifting, with the entire plot hinging on “it’s magic… I don’t have to explain shit” being the excuse. Why was this princess going to destroy the world? More to the point, how? Who cares… magic vision says it’ll happen.

And the Princess knows that Circe knows that she plans some vague world domination, and that somehow she can convey this thing that hasn’t yet happened to Waller? Clayface’s role doesn’t make much sense…. He’s there to discredit the “expert” who vouches for Circe, so he’s supposed to be discovered impersonating her. But he puts the person who discovers him into a coma rather than letting him report back and take the hit order off of the princess.

The character flashbacks were way too regular in format and similar in tragedy, but the real crime was Nina’s whole arc, which came across as shallow manipulation. She existed to be sympathetic so the audience would be upset that she was killed… and that seems to be mostly it.

Honestly, for as entertained as I was while watching parts of it all, I’m more and more annoyed by choices thinking back on it and how it wrapped up.

RealTurner - 1/11/2025, 10:14 AM

@Chewtoy - Agree on all points but was probably harder on it than you in my final estimation! "Oh they are nice people really" has been done to death, and there wasn't even a good explanation for why Nina was locked up! She can talk and explain herself, what crimes did she commit that got her on the Task Force? And what skills did she bring to the party? Even more hilarious was her father getting shot because "you don't understand, she can't breathe out of water!" and then they immediately throw her into a water tank in the back of the truck duuuuh!

It also made Rick Flag just look incompetant. At least if he has a Bond-like womanizer angle to his thing with the princess, but no, he was stammering like a schoolboy from the moment he met her, completely sucked in, and fooled by the plan until the end.

NonPlayerC - 1/11/2025, 10:19 AM

@Chewtoy - pretty much how I felt. The whole Nina making the choice to kill to please her new friend felt cheap. Then bride blames the princess for her death when it was the bride that manipulated Nina into trying to kill her. The whole motive was based on circes vision with zero real world proof. It wasn’t the worst show in the world but not that good either

TheVisionary25 - 1/11/2025, 10:27 AM

@Chewtoy - I disagree with Nina somewhat

She’s also used to Contrast the Bride and by the end the latter even begins to show a bit of her humanity aswell after her death.

Also I get ya about Clayface and this is gonna be a flimsy defense but we do know what Illana told him besides impersonating the expert so he might not even have known to go as hard on Flagg as he did

Forthas - 1/11/2025, 10:15 AM

So let me see if I get this straight....

Creature Commandos featured a Frankenstein monster which saw the aftermath of him pretty much graphically dismembering his creator and the impression that he bludgeoned an old lady, The Bride leaving him to burn in a fire, GI Robot gunning down (bad) people at a meeting who were not doing anything to him or anyone else at the time, Dr. Phosphorous murdering a family off camera, the police shooting children and causing a fire where a group of them burned to death and the most sympathetic character Nina Mazursky being peer pressured into killing someone only to be stabbed to death. Not to mention future visions of the Justice League crucified and impaled en-mass....and Zack Snyder’s universe is the dark one?

While I fully agree that Zack Snyder took the subject matter down a morbid and dark path, fair is fair and the hypocrisy here is just staggering!

NonPlayerC - 1/11/2025, 10:22 AM

@Forthas - but they were all Zaney and excited and made jokes!!

epc1122 - 1/11/2025, 10:24 AM

@Forthas - yeah I tend to agree. I enjoyed creature commandos and absolutely looking forward to the Gunn universe, but to say that Snyder’s universe is dark and horrible Is a gross exaggeration. Sure there were things I didn’t necessarily agree with or enjoyed with the Snyder universe, but i don’t think it was nearly as bad as some people make it out to be. I personally would love to see the Snyder universe continue on in either a comic book or in animation.

Izaizaiza - 1/11/2025, 10:55 AM

@Forthas - You seem to be missing an important aspect of this show. This is a group of monsters who are used for covert military missions. It is supposed to be a dark show.

I was actually turned off from the trailer, thinking that it would just be another overly gruesome cartoon like invincible. The great achievement of the show is that Gunn made audiences care about the characters. Something that I'll say never happened for me with any DCEU film.

Izaizaiza - 1/11/2025, 11:00 AM

@Forthas - I think you are overlooking an important element of the show. This is about a group of MONSTERS who are used in covert military missions. The show is supposed to be dark, unlike, arguably, superman.

The great achievement of the show, IMO, is that Gunn made audiences care about the characters, which never happened for me with any DCEU film.

Forthas - 1/11/2025, 11:08 AM

@NonPlayerC - EXACTLY...don't forget the colors!!!!!

Izaizaiza - 1/11/2025, 11:09 AM

Forthas - 1/11/2025, 11:14 AM

@epc1122 - I LOVED Man of Steel (which I don't understand why people call that a dark film...but i digress). Snyder lost me with BvS and had a tiny redemption with his Justice League which I thought was luke warm. If Snyder wants to continue the story in Comic Book form then that would be great but probably something that would not be for me if it continued what was started in BvS.

Forthas - 1/11/2025, 11:21 AM

@Izaizaiza - But the one sympathetic character who was NOT a monster is the one who is killed. I only watched one episode so I don't even understand why she was even a part of the group. So the message of this show is that the good people are toast in a world of monsters!?!? Boy! That is really uplifting (sarcasm).

It is funny because I did not like The Suicide Squad until the very end which rescued the film with the heroics of that films most sympathetic character. That was uplifting but I guess that era is over.

epc1122 - 1/11/2025, 11:23 AM

@Forthas - I loved man of steel as well and never understood the backlash for it but like you I felt Batman vs Superman was a step back. The line that kills me is “no one stays good”. At that point I knew Superman wasn’t staying dead and looking forward to the justice league but didn’t think he’d be dead for most of and he had more of a cameo role. With that said we’ve heard some
Of the ideas for the rest of the 5 movies and there are aspects I think would be good but also some disappointing things for the next two movies. Still would be interesting to see it realized in some fashion.

GiverOfInfo - 1/11/2025, 10:27 AM

Say what you will about the show, but Gunn doesn't miss with his music choices.

Izaizaiza - 1/11/2025, 11:00 AM

epc1122 - 1/11/2025, 11:19 AM

@GiverOfInfo - before this show I never heard of coin operated boy by the Dresden dolls, now I love the song 👍

MakeAmericaGrea - 1/11/2025, 10:33 AM

Who posts the kind of jokes James Gunn posted, that would be seen by one's:
Living parents
Family
Cousins
Friends
Employers
Coworkers
Employees
Children
Strangers

TheVisionary25 - 1/11/2025, 10:35 AM

I appreciated how character driven the show was which should be expected from Gunn I guess…

The plot itself is light but it’s the characters themselves where the show really shines since I liked all of them to varying degrees.

However I do wish the Princess herself was fleshed out more in regards to her motivations & goals , it’s the one area I found the story lacking for me.

Anyway , I liked the show overall and am looking forward to S2!!.

IronGenesis - 1/11/2025, 10:41 AM

GI Robot episode was my fave…probably for the throwbacks/hints to Sgt. Rock & The Metal Men.

vectorsigma - 1/11/2025, 10:43 AM

Lolz at the professional critics here.

Cant wait for your shill reviews of Brave New World. 😂

bobevanz - 1/11/2025, 10:45 AM

The point of this show was to introduce each character. Their backstories are dramatic and sad, sometimes relatable. I really enjoyed it. I wish there were more. AT LEAST THERE ISN'T ANY CGI

Izaizaiza - 1/11/2025, 10:51 AM

It should be be! The show is [frick]ing fantastic! I wasn't expecting much, but it really took me by surprise. Gunn could stop here, and his DCU is already a far better universe than the entire DCEU. 🤷🏻‍♂️

AwesomePromoz - 1/11/2025, 10:59 AM

I read these reactions as more from Snyder-tards than MCU shills.

alleverybody - 1/11/2025, 11:00 AM

This show sucked. The jokes weren’t funny. The characters were annoying. The plot was disjointed. This is Gunn with no oversight. Probably the worst was Frankenstein being an evil murderer and then making goofy jokes the rest of the time. Once again Gunn thinks he’s hilarious, but without Chris Pratt it falls flat.

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CREATURE COMMANDOS Is Now "Certified Fresh" As Final Rotten Tomatoes Score Is Revealed

DC Studios' new DCU is off to a tremendous start as a final Rotten Tomatoes score for Creature Commandos has been revealed and the "Certified Fresh" series ranks among the best-reviewed DC titles ever.

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