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Roger Ebert

Like its hero, it succeeds in spite of itself.

rogerebert.com/reviews/aquaman-and-the-lost-kingdom-movie-review-2023

Los Angeles Times

These movies allowed Arthur not to be the smartest guy in the room, a refreshing reversal.

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IGN

Once you get past that first slog, though, things get fun for a stretch. Orm and Arthur have the exact begrudging brothers dynamic you’d expect, which yields quite a few funny moments thanks to Wilson and Momoa’s onscreen rapport.

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Variety

The movie, with all that combat, is staged on an impressively grand scale by the returning director, James Wan, but at the same time there’s something glumly standard about it.

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The Guardian

Yet more evidence that the superhero movie industry is foundering comes from this shoddy, scraped-from-the-bottom-of-an-ocean-trench sequel.

theguardian.com/film/2023/dec/24/aquaman-and-the-lost-kingdom-review-jason-momoa-sequel

Rotten Tomatoes

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.

rottentomatoes.com/m/aquaman_and_the_lost_kingdom/reviews

IMDb

the serious badass from the other installments is reduced to a flailing comedian

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