MADAME WEB

Name: MADAME WEB
Item: MADAME WEB
Author: Lillie Jaenchen

"A Celebration of the Maternal Instinct"

Content: -1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.

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What You Need To Know:

MADAME WEB is a Marvel superhero movie about Cassandra Webb, a 30-year-old paramedic in New York City who drives an ambulance in Manhattan with her friend, Ben. Cassie was born in the Peruvian Amazon jungle when her mother died during childbirth. Cassie doesn’t know that her life was saved in Peru when a unique spider venom was applied. Cassie starts to see visions of the future when she plunges into the water off a bridge while working on an accident. Eventually, she must use her power to save three teenage girls who are being stalked by a man who thinks the girls are going to kill him seme day.

In the Marvel comic books, Madame Web has an array of occult psychic powers. However, this origin movie downplays some of the occult content in the comics to create an exciting, humor-filled story about a woman taking on the responsibilities of motherhood. MADAME WEB also has a pro-life attitude. However, the villain in MADAME WEB is a bit lackluster, and the movie has some incidental, mostly light, foul language. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution.

Content:

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Dominant Worldview and Other Worldview Content/Elements:

Strong moral worldview with some redemptive elements promotes taking on the responsibilities of motherhood and has a pro-life message, but there is some mystical, occult powers about seeing the future and having the ability to be in multiple places at once are connected to a unique spider venom;

Foul Language:

Nine obscenities (three “s” words and two “ah” words), one Jesus profanity, and 10 light profanities;

Violence:

Strong action violence about a villain chasing three teenage girls to kill them because he foresees a future where they will kill him, three teenage girls and their older mentor fight the man off such as woman hits him with a taxi cab she’s stolen, explosions and fire in a warehouse filled with firecrackers, woman falls into ocean after saving a man involved in a crash on a bridge, woman floats for multiple seconds under the water and sees visions, images of female paramedic giving CPR on people and having blood on her hands, pregnant woman gets shot in stomach area during a struggle, man with Spider-Man superpowers tries to save woman and baby by administering special spider venom with curative powers, but the woman dies while the baby lives, villain takes multiple tumbles as woman and three teenagers fight him by using objects and fireworks, woman teaches CPR to three teenage girls being chased by villain with murderous intent, and their CPR skills come in handy later, teenager girls hang precariously from objects on a rooftop, and title character foresees villain killing three teenage girls, but she saves them;

Sex:

No sex scenes but villain wakes up next to a woman he picked up at an opera after having a nightmare about his death;

Nudity:

Brief upper male nudity in one scene;

Alcohol Use:

No alcohol use;

Smoking and/or Drug Use and Abuse:

No smoking or drugs; and,

Miscellaneous Immorality:

Woman steals a taxicab to help three teenage girls escape the clutches of the villain who has superpowers.

More Detail:

MADAME WEB is a Marvel superhero movie about a young woman who was born in the Peruvian Amazon jungle when her mother died during childbirth and who must defend three teenage girls 30 years later from a man with superpowers who’s trying to kill them because he thinks the girls will kill him when they get older. MADAME WEB downplays the psychic powers of the woman in the original Marvel comics to create an exciting, humor-filled story about a woman taking on the responsibilities of motherhood, but the villain is a bit lackluster, and the movie has some incidental, but mostly mild, foul language.

Cassie Webb is a 30-year-old paramedic in New York City who drives an ambulance in Manhattan with her friend, Ben. Cassie grew up in the foster care system after being born in the Peruvian Amazon jungle when her mother, a research scientist, died during childbirth. Cassie starts to see visions of the immediate future when she plunges into the water after saving a man whose car crashed on a bridge.

Cassie thinks her mother abandoned her as a baby. However, what Cassie doesn’t know is that, 30 years ago, her pregnant mother, Mary, was searching in the Amazon jungle for a special spider species that might have great curative powers. Mary found one of the spiders, but her guide, a man named Ezekiel, betrayed her, and Mary was shot during a physical struggle. Ezekiel ran off with the spider, but Mary’s baby was saved by a jungle tribe of men who have developed Spider-Man powers from being bitten by the spider species. In trying to save the mother and baby’s lives, the tribe used some spider venom, but only Cassie survived.

Meanwhile, Ezekiel has become wealthy and also lives in New York City. However, he’s plagued by dreams where three women with superhero outfits end up killing him. Using computer technology, he’s identified their faces as teenagers and is now searching the city for them. He plans to kill them before they can kill him.

Cassie ends up being on a subway train with the three teenagers. She foresees Ezekiel boarding the train and killing the three girls. So, she forces the girls to leave the train just as Ezekiel starts to come after them.

An elaborate chase ensues with Ezekiel able to climb walls and ceilings. Clearly, he’s taken the spider venom just like the Amazon jungle tribe in Peru. Cassie manages to get the girls to safety. She then finds out that all three girls are living on their own, having been orphaned or neglected by their parents. So, Cassie must take the girls under her wing and protect them from Ezekiel by using her powers to foresee the immediate future.

In the Marvel comic books, Madame Web has a whole array of occult psychic powers. However, this origin movie downplays the mystical occult content in the comics to create an exciting, humor-filled story about a woman taking on the responsibilities of motherhood. As a result, the movie becomes a nice celebration of the maternal instinct. In fact, the heroine finds a new purpose and meaning in life when she takes on the responsibility of caring for, protecting and guiding the three teenage girls. MADAME WEB also has a pro-life attitude. However, the villain in MADAME WEB is a bit lackluster and undeveloped, and the movie has a mixture of light and strong foul language. So, MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution.

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