2023 has not been a good year for superhero movies. And there is no rift between Marvel and DC Comics in that they haven’t done well at the box office or in the response from critics. Aquaman and the lost kingdom comes to close the year, and yes, it is more of the same.
There are no parallel realities or worlds, a resource that, because it has been used many times, has lost its appeal and alienated those who previously went to watch movies. Marvel. In this AquamanAs we said, there is more of the same: a lot of action, some humor, and revenge as the leitmotiv of the evil man on duty.
Many questions revolve around this film. Not only because of its delayed premiere, but because of the comments that the sampling functions, a first cut, had aroused at the beginning of the year, and that it seems the public did not like it.
Another subject: Amber Heard, Johnny Depp’s ex-wife, returns, of course, as Mera, Aquaman’s now wife, with whom he has had a baby. After fans’ anger, how much is Amber Heard on screen? Did they leave her or delete her scenes? And Ben Affleck? Does Batman appear?
Revenge, again
“There are those who think I’m ridiculous,” says Aquaman, with his impressive physique and the long hair of Hawaiian Jason Momoa. Ridiculous, no, but some of the actions of the superhero who is the king of Atlantis border on the absurd.
The plot: David Kane, or Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, the actor of Candyman and that it was Morpheus in the last of The Matrix), who swore to take revenge on Aquaman, destroy him, his family and, if necessary, the kingdom as well. Although he has to repair his “armor,” he has more power than before, because Kane finds the Trident that brought so many headaches to the seven underwater kingdoms, and also manages to find a fuel (orichalcum), whose toxic gases are doing harm. to the entire planet. He “Uses it to heat the planet. We have to stop him,” his mother (Nicole Kidman) tells her son Aquaman.
To do this, they will need the help of someone who was also in the first one, and with whom the protagonist was also in conflict: his brother Orm (Patrick Wilson, from the films of The spell which was directed or produced by James Wan, director of this and the Aquaman original), from whom he took the position of king. Everything is to save the planet.
Aquaman has a lighter version, or if you want more human, having his baby, Arthur Jr., in charge. He gets excited when he notices that they share the gift of talking with fish and plays with him with dolls to tell him about his exploits. More than the king of Atlantis, he is a father.
The film at times seems like one of Jumanji, and there are explicit mentions of Marvel’s Loki and Harry Potter’s Azkaban. And there are a lot of clichés (“The surface has poisoned our atmosphere,” they say in the Atlantis Council, or “Sometimes not giving up or giving up is the most heroic thing to do”) and also a lot of nothing.
Since James Wan comes from horror, the suspense scenes should be the best.
James Gunn grabbed DC and plans to shuffle and hit again. For this reason, perhaps, there is only one post-credit scene (a joke), but there is no need to wait for something to happen that anticipates a next adventure of the king of Atlantis. It is a synthesis of the film that waiting for something to happen.
“Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom”
Action/Comedy. United States, 2023. Original title: “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom”. 124’, SAM 13. Of: James Wan. Con: Jason Momoa, Patrick Wilson, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Amber Heard, Nicole Kidman. Salas: IMAX, Cinemark Palermo, Cinépolis Recoleta, Showcase Belgrano.