Facebook has disabled a page connected to an alt-right group that had called for viewers to give the upcoming and much-anticipated Black Panther film a low rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The group, which calls itself "Down with Disney's Treatment of Franchises and Its Fanboys", sought to drive down ratings on the movie review website for Black Panther.

The page, whose moderator described himself as "alt-right", had attracted support from almost 4,000 user accounts. The alt-right is a loosely knit coalition of white supremacists, white nationalists and neo-Nazis.

But by Saturday, the page was inaccessible.

The same group had taken credit sabotaging the Rotten Tomatoes rating for another Disney movie, The Last Jedi. Then, the moderator took issue with Star Wars producers introducing more female characters, saying one of the main male characters was "in danger of being turned gay".

Featuring an all-star cast, Black Panther is the first black-centric superhero film from Marvel Studios, which in the last year has released box-office hits such as Thor: Ragnarok and Spider-Man: Homecoming.

The film's director, Ryan Coogler, told the Huffington Post that he is looking forward to everyone seeing the film.

"For me, I'm looking forward to sharing the film with audiences regardless of what their political views are … that's kind of where I [stand on that]."

In a statement, a spokesperson for Rotten Tomatoes said: "While we respect our fans' diverse opinions, we do not condone hate speech."

Black Panther has already broken a record by outselling every other superhero movie in advance ticket sales.

The film will be in cinemas across the US on February 16.

Chadwick Boseman, Michael B Jordan, Lupita Nyong'o, Daniel Kaluuya, Sterling K Brown, Forest Whitaker and Angela Bassett are among the film's stars.

Here are some reactions to the film on social media:

This video, shared by several people including the rapper and actor Common, showed a group of children celebrating news they were going to see the film.

#BlackPantherSoLIT: These students at Ron Clark Academy just found out they are going to see Black Panther. Watch their reactions RT to spread the joy! pic.twitter.com/Oc5SAjwbQz — COMMON (@common) February 3, 2018

@TailTheNerd was apparently shocked by the far-right attempt to discredit Black Panther, simply tweeting: "Wow ok."

"Down With Disney's Treatment of Franchises and its Fanboys" 😂



Wow ok. pic.twitter.com/PnVqGow4Ex — Tae | Gonna take Thursday off to see Black Panther (@TailTheNerd) February 1, 2018

Clint Smith, a writer and teacher, said it was important that children of diverse backgrounds see themselves represented on screen.

"I still don't think folks understand what the Black Panther movie will mean to young kids. That a kid will look on screen & see themselves as the hero (hell almost the whole cast!) of a superhero movie is such an incredibly powerful thing," he said.

I still don't think folks understand what the Black Panther movie will mean to young kids. That a kid will look on screen & see themselves as the hero (hell almost the whole cast!) of a superhero movie is such an incredibly powerful thing — Clint Smith (@ClintSmithIII) February 2, 2018

User @SeyiAyorinde replied to Smith, saying the film also had great meaning for adults.

Folks don't understand what Black Panther means to a lot of us adults either — Real-life Wakandan (@SeyiAyorinde) February 2, 2018

Mars Blackmon said: "I want everyone who was a part of Black Panther to prosper. From the actors, cameramen, editor, costume designer, grips, etc. I want all of them to win after this movie shatters every record in history."