Aquaman: Jason Momoa, Amber Heard save series from drowning

Aquaman is a 2018 American superhero filmbased on the DC Comics character of the same name, and distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures. It is the third live-action theatrical film featuring Aquaman, following Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice(2016) and Justice League (2017), and the first full-length feature film centered around the character.

In Aquaman, Arthur Curry, the heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis, must step forward to lead his people against his half-brother, Orm, who seeks to unite the seven underwater kingdoms against the surface world. On review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 65% based on 334 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The website’s critical consensus reads, “Aquaman swims with its entertainingly ludicrous tide, offering up CGI superhero spectacle that delivers energetic action with an emphasis on good old-fashioned fun.”

Metacritic surveyed 49 critics’ reviews and assessed 22 as positive, 21 as mixed and 6 as negative; the website assigned an aggregate score of 55 out of 100, indicating “mixed or average reviews”. Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of “A−” on an A+ to F scale, while those at PostTrak gave it an 82% overall positive score and a 69% “definite recommend”. Germain Lussier of io9 wrote “Aquaman is all about spectacle. It’s filled with ambition. It’s always about trying to put the coolest, most imaginative sequence on screen at every single turn of the story, no matter what the cost.”