There are just less than ten days away from its theatrical release, but the backlash against Christopher Nolan’s "The Odyssey" does not seem to subside.
Universal Pictures released the movie’s 'official countdown trailer' on 1 July. While YouTube has not been displaying the dislike counter publicly on its website for about five years now, third-party plugins exist that record their user’s ratings of videos, then estimate the total number proportionate to the publicly available like count.
Users with such plugins have captured the number of dislikes outnumbering the number of likes by a wide margin. For instance, one user on Reddit posted a screenshot on 5 July showing 59,000 likes and 402,000 dislikes on "The Odyssey’s" latest trailer uploaded to YouTube.
Even without the plugins, the overwhelmingly negative reactions to the trailer are evident on the regular YouTube interface.
The number of likes is very low compared to the number of views. Currently, the video has 5.625 million views. However, it has only collected 67,000 likes, meaning about one like per 84 views. Compare that to the official trailer for the highest-grossing movie of 2026 thus far, "The Super Mario Galaxy" Movie that generated over US$ 1 billion at the box office. Their official trailer has 10.1 million views and 296,000 likes, one like for about every 34 views.
All the top-rated comments under the trailer are negative as well. Most of them make fun of the controversial casting of Kenyan Mexican actress Lupita Nyong’o in the role of Helen of Troy.
Nyong’o’s role has been fuelling negative discussions online ever since rumours of it were reported back in February. Most people see it as the newest iteration of the ahistorical "raceswapping" trend in mainstream media.
With users sharing screenshots of the like–dislike ratio of the latest official trailer for "The Odyssey", multiple entertainment outlets pointed out one thing: this is the second worst like–dislike ratio for a major production movie trailer in Hollywood history.
The only film with a proportionally more disliked trailer: Disney’s 2025 adaptation of "Snow White", which ended up posting a nine-figure loss for its studio.
Christopher Nolan’s THE ODYSSEY countdown trailer has become the most disliked Hollywood trailer since the trailer for SNOW WHITE with Rachel Zegler.
— Global Box Office (@GlobalBoxOffice) July 3, 2026
THE ODYSSEY now has an estimated ~80% dislikes, while SNOW WHITE had ~95% dislikes. pic.twitter.com/qzXw1lpGmQ
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