Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom (2023)

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1. 

   Darth Destroyer

   This really feels like they remade Thor: the dark world.

   The world building, breaking his brother out of prison, his homeland being invaded.

   4 months 1 week ago
2. 

   chunkylefunga

   Rehashing villains is always lazy writing.
   
   Needed a new and better villain.
   
   Overall it's about the same quality as the first. 2 months 2 weeks ago
3. 

   Siskoid

   The DCEU's Aquaman was already a lot like the MCU's Thor, so it makes it even more obvious than otherwise that they're doing The Dark World with The Lost Kingdom. Like that turned out so well. An evil ice kingdom, Arthur having to break his evil brother out of jail and team up with him, we've been here before. At times, the Aquaman sequel feels like a parody - the opening Aquadad montage, the cartoony non-human undersea characters, that super-cringy last shot before the credits - but it does have some fun with Topo and Orm not being used to operating on land (and there's a LOT of land in this, did anyone check if Arthur was out of the water for more than an hour?). Ocean Master, in fact, comes off better than Aquaman himself, and not just because Patrick Wilson is the better actor. He's just getting better action beats too. Dolph Lundgren is the opposite, a real drain whenever he's on screen. But the weak script asks the audience to take a lot of things as given, with logic and physics at times swimming right out the window. The dialog is extremely poor, veering into nonsense (if you have a crustacean using "spineless" as an insult, you're just not thinking things through). Tons of lazy exposition at various points, cheesy sentiment, and a real lack of wit. The comedy falls flat 90% of the time (Aquaman drinking piss? ha). There are some pretty pictures, sure, but when so much of a movie is CG, there's gonna be rough spots too, and the CG puppets that replace actors in action scenes really call attention to themselves. And so, with this, the DCEU finally dies, drowned in a bathtub. Been a long time coming. 1 month 3 weeks ago

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