Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Aquaman forges an alliance with his imprison... Read allBlack Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Aquaman forges an alliance with his imprisoned brother. They must protect the kingdom.Black Manta seeks revenge on Aquaman for his father's death. Wielding the Black Trident's power, he becomes a formidable foe. To defend Atlantis, Aquaman forges an alliance with his imprisoned brother. They must protect the kingdom.
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- TriviaPart of Orm's imprisonment involved placing him in a dry environment and rationing his water to rob him of his natural Atlantean strength. This reflects a weakness from the comics where Aquaman couldn't be out of the water for much more than an hour (this was adjusted to be more of a logical weakness over the years, and was eventually removed in 2011).
- GoofsEven though there's on screen title states "Five Months Later," Arthur Jr. Does not appear to have aged at all.
- Quotes
Arthur Curry: Four years ago I was basically unemployed, a wanderer with no home. But now I'm a husband, and a father. And I wouldn't have it any other way.
Arthur Curry: Oh, yeah, I finally got a job. I'm the King of Atlantis!
- Crazy creditsThere is a scene in the closing credits: Orm puts a live cockroach in his cheeseburger and savors the taste.
- ConnectionsEdited from Aquaman (2018)
- SoundtracksBorn to Be Wild
Written by Mars Bonfire
Performed by Steppenwolf
Courtesy of MCA Records Inc.
Under licence from Universal Music Operations Ltd.
For the first 15 minutes or so I thought I could enjoy it in a so bad it's good sort of way but it's too stupid to even enjoy in that way. The script just makes so many errors on the most basic level that if you think about any thing about this story for more than a minute it just collapses. Nothing that gets set up pays off in any meaningful way and most of the resolutions fell totally flat. It can't decide on a tone, it drags majorly and most of the humour made me cringe in all the worst ways.
The performances really suffer as a result cause they're pretty poor across the board. I've liked Jason Momoa as this character but he's just too campy in this movie to take anything he's doing seriously, even actors of Yahya Abdul-Manteen II and Nicole Kidman's calibre deliver their lines in the flattest way possible but with the material they're given I can hardly blame that on them. I'm happy that Willem Dafoe was spared from this mess at least.
The finale is the most bog standard CGI noise of a climax that we've seen so many times before that I was just totally bored watching it, at least the first film had some sense of spectacle to it. There's the odd fun action scene but the pretty dreadful visual effects just constantly took me out of it. The villain is terrible after a decent set up in the first film with the most generic motivations possible.
The Lost Kingdom ends the DCEU with the biggest thud imaginable. It's been up and down since the beginning but it deserved a better conclusion than the soulless slog that this movie turned out to be. This might be the worst movie they ever made because at least Justice League had a happy conclusion with the Snyder Cut. There's nothing in this movie you haven't seen 100 times before and I've never been more ready for a total reboot of this universe.
- cdjh-81125
- Dec 21, 2023
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- Necrus
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- Budget
- $205,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $124,481,226
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $27,686,211
- Dec 24, 2023
- Gross worldwide
- $434,381,226
- Runtime2 hours 4 minutes
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