The 8 Weakest Marvel Studios Movies, Ranked

Marvel made a lot of great movies. These aren't those. The bottom 8 by movie.guru score, counting down to the lowest.

Number one is beautifully lit and impossible to care about.

1. 8
   Black Widow (2021)6.8

   Florence Pugh deserved top billing. Natasha deserved a better movie.

   A $288.5 million budget for a spy movie that plays like a spinoff pilot. Audiences rank it above just 58% of notable movies. David Harbour's Red Guardian helps.
2. 7
   Iron Man 2 (2010)6.3

   Tony Stark sulking inside a giant donut is the highlight.

   Critics rank it above just 47% of notable movies. 124 minutes of Sam Rockwell dancing and Mickey Rourke asking for his bird. It still made $623.9 million.
3. 6
   Thor (2011)6.0

   Asgard looks huge. Then it parks in New Mexico.

   Tom Hiddleston's Loki is why this corner of Marvel survived. $150 million budget, 57 on Metacritic, and the tilted camera never straightens out.
4. 5
   The Incredible Hulk (2008)5.8

   The Marvel movie even Marvel pretends never happened.

   Edward Norton played Bruce Banner exactly once. $264.8 million worldwide, the lowest gross on this list. The CGI brawl with Tim Roth looks like a loading screen.
5. 4
   Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness (2022)6.0

   Elizabeth Olsen is terrifying, and the rest is portal soup.

   $955.8 million worldwide, the biggest gross here, yet audiences rank it above just 54% of notable movies. Opening weekend loved it. The rest of the year shrugged.
6. 3
   Thor: The Dark World (2013)5.6

   Name the villain. Exactly. That's the review.

   112 minutes, a $150 to $272.1 million budget, and critics rank it above just 43% of notable movies. Christopher Eccleston vanishes under elf makeup, and so does the plot.
7. 2
   Thor: Love and Thunder (2022)4.9

   Christian Bale brought a horror movie. Nobody else did.

   His Gorr is truly chilling while everyone around him riffs about screaming goats. Audiences rank it above just 34% of notable movies, on a $250 million budget.
8. 1
   Eternals (2021)4.2

   Gorgeous sunsets, a giant cast, and zero reasons to care.

   The lowest Marvel Studios score on movie.guru, a 3.9. Audiences rank it above just 29% of notable movies. 156 minutes of magic hour lighting and lore dumps.

$34.21 says you still own a Funko Pop from at least one of these.

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