Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

Any movie teeming with fantastical ocean creatures, neon-streaked underwater metropolises and Nicole Kidman riding a cybernetic shark should be a blast of escapism, but the Lost Kingdom never transcends the tedium of its weightless green screen action.

Where Aquaman felt original, Lost Kingdom is stale, void of all originality.

It opens with one character getting blasted in the face by a stream of baby urine and ends with another cheerfully munching on a live cockroach. I can’t recall, but did, say, Captain America or Doctor Strange ever have to suffer such indignities?

It appears to suffer from multiple forms of meddling and overdone CGI, failing to capture the charm of its predecessor.

The sets are imaginative, the characters feel lived-in, and the use of practical suits helps reduce the faceless CG enemy-trope of a lot of superhero films while also making the combat feel more tangible and weighted dramatically.