The goods and bads of Aquaman for me can be boiled down to:
Good: It's an Aquaman movie that doesn't make the lead character look like a joke. Yes he rides seahorses, and they are pretty badass looking. And yes he talks to fish, so he makes friends with 'Slattern' the last Kaiju of the first Pacific Rim movie.
The Bads: All in all I really felt like I was watching a Marvel movie, because it had all the good and bad ingredients of one but applied to a DC character. The heroes are funny, the colors are bright, the main villain is... rubbish, and there is a sense of certain parts of it all was done purely for the spectacle of it all... plus that twist near the end about Aquaman's mother was telegraphed pretty heavily.
@heatforce:
I don't see any other instances where something happens in the movie and you think why don't other Avengers reppond to this..
Em... no one came to help Thor in London or appeared to be mobilizing to come help him (Dark World). Tony pretty much took on the Ten Rings single handedly in Iron Man 3. The rest fall into one of three categories: team movies (your Civil War and Avengers), deep space (GotG and Ragnarok) or 'pre-team formation' ala the first Thor movie.
That said, the notion of a hero handling world-level crisis on their own is pretty embedded in the superhero genre, since time and again it happens in comics that the fate of the world ends up resting on the shoulders of one hero or one team of heroes. So it's kinda par for the course.
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