Seriously...totally underwhelming (Mild spoilers only)

Rating: 3/10 (3 January 2019)

So we watched the trailer, and it looked like Aquaman might actually have a storyline, rather than just extended CGI sequences of fight scenes. Well, kudos on the trailer, you convinced us to fork out our dollars and go the cinema, but the popcorn was the highlight of the evening!
Ok, ok, I accept that this is a comic/superhero movie, and it's aimed for a teens audience. So, in that respect it was sort of entertaining. But really...Aquaman was such a mish mash.
There were the attempted moralistic tales. First about polluted water. Next about being judgmental about other cultures (in this case the Atlantians being judgmental about the surface world) and a few others tossed in. The movie gets a tick for trying, but any decent environmental studies student could have improved that part of the script.
The scenery was nice and the CGI passable - but certainly not out of this world, even though it was trying to be out of this world.
But onto the weaknesses.
There were the jokes. Hmm, attempted jokes. I don't think I actually laughed at any of them. Next, what's with the 70s style riding on fish creatures with a harness when the main characters all have underwater superpowers.
And what about the plot? Well there are goodies and baddies. A predictable love story. And all that was really just a pretence for sequence after sequence of shoot-em-up on land and in water. And that's why it was so disappointing, it offered very little for the viewer if you were after anything more than an action flick.