It’s taken far too long , but it’s finally here! The much anticipated, and oft-delayed big screen adaptation of Marvel Comics THE NEW MUTANTS is out — and it’s really good!

The final installment in the big screen cinematic films based in the “X-Men” franchise of films, directed and co-written by Josh Boone (The Fault in Our Stars) was expected as a theatrical release early in 2020 and a lead contender for one of this season’s hottest summer blockbuster tickets, but with the onset of a global pandemic having unleashed itself and many theater-goers self-isolating, 20th Century Studios decided it might make a better idea to just get the movie out to the masses via the home video market (undoubtedly it will eventually find its way to the Disney+ streaming platform).

And like a welcome inoculation to the dullness of the direct-to-video mediocracy that most have been left to endure, The New Mutants pleasantly fills the vacuum. Starring a relatively impressive cast of young Hollywood up-and-comers including Maisie Williams (HBO’s Game of Thrones) and Anya Taylor-Joy (Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit), the origin story stays very faithful to the spirit of the comic book arc the film is inspired from. The adolescent mutants — gifted with strange powers from birth — band together to help a newcomer among them, Dani Moonstar (played by Blu Hunt) to battle their deepest darkest fears wrought on by the menace of a Demon Bear!