hatoftimelord

Headline: Worth a watch Pros: 1. Golden Glider and Kiteman's relationship. It's nice to see a relationship that has too people who clearly like each other, but still have realistic conflict. 2. Fun background characters and references to obscure DC Characters, like 6 pack, Spoiler and detective chimp. I'm still waiting out for dog welder though. 3. Kiteman is still the same character from Harley Quinn. He's still making terrible sex jokes and he's mostly useless in a fight. 4. Malice, or (spoiler) Darkseid's God daughter is a very fun new character. And I love her voice actor as a wwdits fan. 5. The two headed monster just being in complete denial about his dead brother. Just seeing that other head slowly decay in every episode is hilarious. Cons: 1. Same issues as Harley Quinn, they don't take advantage of the premise enough. I've compared Harley Quinn to Venture Bros but not as funny. There's good moments, but they are missing the insanity and mixing of real life and supervillains that they could have done. They could make fun of superheros and villains as a whole, have someone call CPS on batman, or make fun of how unclear exactly where gotham is. And some of that humor is there, like the legion of doom getting annoyed with lex Luther's obsession with Superman, but it could be much more. 2. Sex as a humor crutch. Particularly jokes about Kiteman sexting just feel like raunchyness without a punchline. 3. Queen of Fables getting nerfed. She went from a justice league level supervillain to a bar fly with good oneliers. She doesn't really feel like the same character.

I loved this movie. A lot of modern action movies focus on just having fun lines and cool action scenes, but when you actually start thinking about the plot everything falls apart. And well, I have certainly enjoyed movies like that (Hell, I watched Venom twice, to my shame), but this movie actually managed to do both. Be a fun popcorn fic with good one liners and have a plot. Foreshadowing, character growth, and flawed protagonists. This is a movie I would definitely watch again, and I would put it with the likes of Shawn of the Dead and What We do in the Shadows, as one of the best horror comedies I have seen. I don't know why it flopped, but sometimes good movies do, and critics never like comedies or horror. Don't let that prevent you from watching this movie.