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So: AQUAMAN

The character’s swagger is dull; but it’s soon subsumed by a more relatable self-doubt.

Glad someone finally staged RETURN OF THE KING conflicts in a LITTLE MERMAID/FINDING NEMO setting. Fight choreography takes the setting into account; looks great.
No JUSTICE LEAGUE visual murkiness; nice bright set pieces.

Some will balk at the length, but whenever my mind would wander we’d meet a race of crab-people, or sea-monkey-people, maybe, and I’d be all like “yes please.”
Do people know who voices the kraken/Cthulhu thing? If you don’t, don’t find out before seeing it. That’s a treat.

No real chemistry between Arthur and Mera (who seems a bit uncomfortable), but the lip service paid here suffices.
HUGELY efficient opening half-hour or so; not a wasted scene, shot, bit of dialogue.

The costumes look goofy on occasion (Manta looks like Rita Repulsar sent him) but that is by no means a complaint. This is a pro-goofy household.
It’s not the AQUAMAN movie 8-year-old me imagined, but it’s an AQUAMAN movie, filled with the kind of spectacle above and below the water - including a fluid, nicely interwoven connected foot chase along rooftops - that he never could have imagined.
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