Late to the Aquaman party. WB needs to stop doing 2 things that took me right out of the moment.
1) stop going from set piece to set piece. There were so few moments for the characters to breathe, that I honestly didn't care about any of them. Momoa's charisma carried it. Everyone was made two dimensional, because there was no sense that they lived in a real world. No one stumbled even once.
2) stop wasting good material for a couple of minutes of screen time. The whole Trench storyline, plus big mama trench monster, down the drain. And the self reflective 'no one respects fish boy' storyline is gone too, because you can't have a hero looking weak.
They did this with Superman a lot, too.
Other than that, pretty enjoyable popcorn flick. Just nothing left for a sequel.
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