More Dumbing Down Science

Rating: 4/10 (7 April 2019)

Dumbing down fantasy:
Aquaman created 70+ years ago when science (crude compared to today) for young adults was poor at best. A time when ancient myths such as Atlantis held sway in people's imaginations. Atlantis a city w/humans? Living at the bottom of the ocean. Never mind pressures & its effects at different depths, and even how cities could be constructed;. How human Atlanteans could breathe w/out gills or any other mode of O2 absorption; how they could talk at any depth & in perfect English (try talking under water and see how H2O density makes speech unintelligible). How there could be a paradise of trees & waterfalls at the Earth's core (forget pressure; thousands of degrees heat; molten iron).
Usual script hooks of bullying of young Aquaman; lots of lasers & martial arts kicks (also found in recently released Bumblebee); lots of strength displays like lifting a submarine out of the water, but oddly it takes more effort to just toss a human about. Lots of stereotyping of characters - formula good 'n' bad. Our underwater humans say they have the greatest military on the planet yet they're riding around on giant seahorses & sharks. The one positive to the movie was the justification for war against the surface because our plastic pollution (millions of tons per year) is destroying their habitat. Appropriately we get a real scene with hills of plastic garbage being thrown back at us.