Release: Plastic Man

Plastic Man
Genre: Action/Superhero/Comedy
Director: Rawson Marshall Thurber
Writer: APJ
Based on DC Comics characters
Cast: Glenn Howerton, Dan Fogler, Elisabeth Moss, Clayne Crawford, David Dastmalchian, Dean Norris, H. Jon Benjamin




Budget: $180,000,000
Domestic Box Office: $302,973,210
Foreign Box Office: $345,001,087
Total Profit: $279,100,751

Reaction: Astounding numbers for this film based on a lesser known comic book character. It joins Booster Gold as another hit DC superhero comedy.  The success of LRF superhero films like Booster Gold, Plastic Man, White Tiger and The Question, plus the success of films like Black Panther and Guardians of the Galaxy outside of LRF, shows that character popularity is not always indicative of future box office.

"In this day and age, audiences expect to see high stakes in their superhero fare. With Plastic Man, most of the movie is spent with him trying to stop some bank robbing former colleagues. This just didn't create the kind of action set pieces to build a movie around." - Manny Duncan, San Antonio Express-News

"When Glenn Howerton was first cast in the lead role and Rawson Thurber Marshall was hired to direct, I was worried that this film was trying to copy the blueprint of Booster Gold. Thankfully, I was wrong. Both are fun superhero comedies, but the tone of Plastic Man is arguably darker and weirder than the more goofy, mainstream humor found in Booster Gold." - Michael Wilmington, Rolling Stone

"Sometimes a big time character is so perfectly cast that it seems like a no-brainer in hindsight. Like Chris Pratt as Star-Lord in Guardians of the Galaxy, it is now hard to imagine anyone other than TV star Glenn Howerton as the occasionally-heroic Plastic Man. He perfectly captures the sardonic tone that makes the character interesting and hilarious." - Ben Bernard, New York Times