So they told James Wan it was a comic. He hears 'comical'

Rating: 5/10 (15 December 2018)

First, everything that is OK about this film happened underwater...
The CGI seemed pretty good, nice style. Good world-building. Most of the acting was decent enough (better from the more seasoned actors). Comedic moments sit a little awkwardly and were pretty flat for me, but are probably not too bad. The story was pretty simple, but that's fine, especially when executed by decent acting.
The rest though.. everything out of the water.. it's like someone completely different was in charge. And it's not good.
There's a long scene that looks like it came out of the old Power Rangers TV show, with the same cheap look, and a clunky villain who had suddenly become a technological genius... just pathetic.
The soundtrack was mostly unnoticeable which I find is usually good, except for horrible double use of the 'signature' refrain during the first appearance, but much worse, two crude scene transitions into overbearing songs, one of which starts a laughable scene that looks like the start of a Disney fairytale musical number.
The CGI is bad, including a scene on a boat that looks like they borrowed a backdrop from a film from the 1950s, along with a camera stuck on maximum zoom for some reason.
There are other bits too; when Mera makes a 'speech', all moving about for no reason but to clash with the tone of the moment, or the wildly variable displays of Aquaman's strength, or one underwater bit that was so silly, ill-fitting and cheesy that our audience laughed out loud *at* it.
Overall the good bits are pretty decent, but good grief, I just don't get it, you're watching then the next scene and you're wondering if they swapped the reels to another film.
This is not good film-making.