Just watched Aquaman 2....and it was a mess of a movie.
It was like they didnt know what kind of movie they wanted it to be so they mashed up like 3-4 different genres into one. We go from "Look whose talking" comedy movie about dad getting pee in his mouth, to Lord of the Rings, a fantasy epic, to a buddy cop movie of good cop/bad cop, to Step Brothers "cockroaches are the shrimp of the human world. try one"
Aquabro was in full force for the most part and it was annoying as hell for me. I for one am glad that we are done with Jason Mamoas version of Aquaman. He's an adult child who falls asleep and snores on the throne in the middle of a council meeting. He just wants to chug beer all day and go on about how great cheeseburgers are.
The way the villain was defeated...is wow. It was as if they couldnt come up with a legitimate way to save the day so they just came up with the easiest way possible. It was fairly disappointing.
Mera is there for the first half/last half but you can tell that they chose to drastically reduce the character. Nothing James says can make me believe otherwise. She literally speaks maybe 3-4 times and her action scenes go by fairly fast. Her father speaks more than she does and they never even speak to each other or about each other. What happens to her in the first half of the film....he's just mum about it. He's a grandfather and it never comes up. She's more or less there to be wife and mom and not her own character. Though she is allowed to save Arthur once which was nice. He gets more of a storyline with Orm than with Mera.
Even Atlanna is used sparingly and not to her full potential.
If you're name isnt Arthur/Orm/Manta/Scientist guy...then...your pretty much an after thought.
5/10
