If we are consigned to a future where action adventure movies are only allowed to be endless low-stakes CGI action sequences with aloof wisecracking throughout, then please make mine Aquaman.
Seahorse knights! Crazy underwater CGI fantasias! An incredibly charismatic lead performance! A kaiju voiced by Julie Andrews! Magic fish powers! Light on origin story and interleaves it throughout the movie instead of frontloading it.
Perhaps most importantly, I didn’t have to watch five other interconnected movies first in order to understand what was happening.
AQUAMAN!
