Most-Watched Movie of 2024 on Netflix “Makes No Sense” According to Fans

Netflix’s most-watched film of 2024 so far has been revealed – but viewers say it ‘makes no sense’.

Netflix started the year 2024 with a bang, offering creations that were a hit with subscribers. On the series side, spectators were able to find the series The Gentlemen by Guy Ritchie, reprising the film The Gentlemen by Guy Ritchie (you read correctly), but also Avatar: The Last Airbender, a daring adaptation of the iconic Nickelodeon cartoon.

And what about films? The streaming platform is not left out: the K-drama Loh Kiwan made a notable entrance, Spaceman plays with arachnophobes, and Millie Bobby Brown faces a dragon in The Lady and the Dragon. Indeed, the star of Stranger Things abandoned Eleven’s outfits to walk around in a princess dress in caves inhabited by a gigantic lizard.

And if the feature film exploded the views counter at the start of the year for the streaming platform, some spectators were frightened by their perplexity. To hear them say, The Lady and the Dragon would not make sense.

Warning: this article spoils elements of the movie La Demoiselle et le Dragon.

Netflix Viewers Say Most-Watched Movie of 2024 “Makes No Sense”

The Lady and the Dragon has been watched more than 35 million times on Netflix according to the platform’s weekly report. A figure all the more impressive as it represents the number of views in just three days of broadcast!

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But for some viewers, there is a catch: the story, and the climax in particular, would not make sense. One of the negative points would thus be the flammable side of the antagonist, as this Internet user pointed out on X/Twitter: “I love Millie, but the film The Lady and the Dragon makes no sense. How can you tell me that a dragon gets burned?”

Another also expressed his disappointment: “A decent idea but much too stupid here to make something decent out of it. You’re going to have to be lucky to feel immersed and unfortunately the creature design is truly horrible and makes no sense.”

A mixed review for The Lady and the Dragon

But not everyone is moved by the liberties taken with the laws of nature. If The Lady and the Dragon is not the masterpiece of the year, the feature film comes away with a review that is neither too harsh nor particularly convinced.

Millie Bobby Brown (Elodie) Nick Robinson (Prince Henry) in The Lady and the Dragon — John Wilson/Netflix

For Écran Large, it’s also the ending that falls short: “The Lady and the Dragon half keeps its initial promise and that’s a shame since it’s the best part of the film. The rest is much less fun, and even more forgettable.”

Empire settled for two stars, judging the Netflix film “too childish and superficial for adults, but too brutal and bloody for children.” On the side of The Guardian, the reception is a little warmer, for a rating of three stars: “The star of Stranger Things is not always convincing as a princess fighting for her life, but there is pleasure in draw from this subversive alternative to the patterns of fairy tales.”

The Lady and the Dragon has been available on Netflix since March 8, 2024.