Aquaman

Like its hero, Aquaman is big, cheesy, and fun

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Holy Mackerel! Aquaman works!

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The DC Universe’s latest hints at a bright future as the purveyor of unhinged superhero movies, but it isn’t there yet

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Aquaman is imaginatively ambitious superhero cinema with no rules, which is more positive than negative as Wan's vision is realized like an underwater laser light spectacle that the DCEU so desperately needs right now.

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‘Aquaman’: James Wan Unleashes An Overblown But Entertaining Visual Spectacle From The Depths Of A Goofy Imagination

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'Aquaman' hands Jason Momoa a fitfully goofy adventure we've seen before

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The first stand-alone film to feature DC Comics’ would-be King of Atlantis, “Aquaman” is 20,000 leagues better than “Suicide Squad,” “Man of Steel” or any of Ben Affleck’s midlife crisis movies. Still, you can’t help but feel that there’s more to dredge up here.

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Arthur Curry’s (Jason Momoa) parents are a lighthouse keeper (Temuera Morrison) and Atlantean queen (Nicole Kidman). When a war between the subsurface world of Atlantis and its ruler Orm (Patrick Wilson) threatens the human world, Curry must confront his past to save the day.

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The goofy, overstuffed Aquaman sleeps with the fishes

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Of course, all of this makes it hard to know why producers deemed this particular version of Aquaman the finished cut. With countless subplots, endless battle sequences, and plenty of secondary characters vying for screen time, Wan’s film feels less like a movie that overstays its welcome and more like a giant swirl of ideas and locations. It may not be coherent, but as far as messes go, Aquaman is certainly one of Hollywood’s more watchable ones.

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Given the uneven quality of its DC Extended Universe entries, Warner Bros. comes pretty close to giving its target comics audience what it wants in this adaptation starring Jason Momoa and Nicole Kidman.

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Not even Jason Momoa and a cast of overqualified supporting actors can save the character from being the joke of the DCEU

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The weakest link in the DC Comics Universe is reconceived as a hero every bit Superman’s equal in director James Wan’s waterlogged origin story.

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It’s just two and a half years of — sorry, two and a half hours — of oceanic screen savers and hair that won’t stop undulating so we know when we’re underwater.

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DC's sea-list superhero plummets into a CGI abyss

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This part-underwater-set superhero origin story is a mess and even Jason Momoa’s good-ol’-boy persona can’t revive it

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It has surf. It has turf. And not much else.

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‘Aquaman’ dazzles the eye, but it’s really exhausting to watch

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The best point of comparison for Aquaman is Black Panther, another superhero movie about a king of a forgotten realm reclaiming his throne. But whereas Ryan Coogler’s surprisingly affecting superhero film restored weight to both the choreography and the drama of the genre, Aquaman remains adrift, so much fantasy flotsam and jetsam floating before our eyes.

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