One of the worst movies of 2023. One for which even paid popcorn would not keep the audience through it.
Acting - none of the newbies act, period. Only those who played Jughead and Dilton were bearable. The actor who played Archie's dad actually looked more like the Archie character.
Storyline- highly predictable, kids running a campaign to save the social cause. Did not have the Archies vibe. Chillar party had more originality.
Representation of characters - for those who have followed Archies comics, they would know that the characters other than copying the looks, did not come out. The rivalry between Archie and Reggie was missing. Moose was left to be an ignorant kid who did not know English in a so called British origin community. Betty would only robotically ride her cycle all over the city.
Overall a lemon delivered from the house of Akhtars. Maybe they just wanted to get done with all bhaichara within the film fraternity with one dumper.