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

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.

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
RegularPoochie - 1/11/2025, 9:49 AM
Time to watch it.
AwesomePromoz
AwesomePromoz - 1/11/2025, 11:00 AM
I have my criticisms but I loved the show.
McMurdo
McMurdo - 1/11/2025, 3:29 PM
@RegularPoochie - it's really good and only gets better as the season goes on.
Forthas
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
RealTurner - 1/11/2025, 10:20 AM
@Forthas - The large difference in the number of reviews makes the comparison pointless anyway.
Forthas
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
MakeAmericaGrea - 1/11/2025, 9:51 AM
This franchise is going to be a disappointment too, isn't it?
HashTagSwagg
HashTagSwagg - 1/11/2025, 9:52 AM
Hot damn, 39 reviews
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MakeAmericaGrea
MakeAmericaGrea - 1/11/2025, 9:53 AM
Top 10 Jokes James Gunn Made About Kids
McMurdo
McMurdo - 1/11/2025, 3:30 PM
@MakeAmericaGrea - cope harder kiddo. You can do better. Talk about Rosario beating up the nanny again, or ivermectin!
ObserverIO
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
RegularPoochie - 1/11/2025, 10:16 AM
@ObserverIO - User Comment Image
harryba11zack
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
whynot - 1/11/2025, 11:08 AM
@harryba11zack - lol well can’t deny it was better then season 3 of what if
koolaidbag
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
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
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
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
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
Arthorious
Arthorious - 1/11/2025, 12:28 PM
@RealTurner - I think Nina being used in the Commandos just shows how deranged Waller is. She knows Nina is practically a human, but by her appearance probably used that to say she wasn’t human.
Chewtoy
Chewtoy - 1/11/2025, 12:29 PM
@TheVisionary25 - It’s a fair point on Nina where I was hyperbolic…. Yes, she was there to reawaken a bit of the Bride’s humanity to the point that she actually cared about something. I do wish that it hadn’t just been shown in the Bride giving a speech to admit she cared and then using it as justification to do the last thing Nina would do and murder someone.



Forthas
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
NonPlayerC - 1/11/2025, 10:22 AM
@Forthas - but they were all Zaney and excited and made jokes!!
epc1122
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.
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