Under the guise of actor-turned-director Andy Serkis (Mowgli), the movie is simply a broad cartoon that manages to walk a line between good-bad and laughably bad. There are some comedic moments that just keep doubling down on silly jokes at the expense of everything else, like the "Not you, Father, you, father" bit that actually made me laugh out loud. The movie is almost sitcom-level in it's portrayal of the two butting heads and going their separate ways to prove they don't need the other only to learn they were really meant to be. This time we have a second alien symbiotic goo, which is actually what the villain of the first movie was, but this time it's red and extra trendril-y! The appeal for any viewer is going to be the bonkers buddy film at its core, Eddie Brock and his living id personified as the Venom alien that keeps asking to be allowed to eat people. I was not a fan of the 2018 predecessor but I found myself enjoying the goofier aspects of Tom Hardy's performance as journalist Eddie Brock after he shares his body with an alien symbiotic goo. This movie is ridiculous, and that will either be its major selling point of its point of condemnation. This is a silly, dumb movie that seems almost too aware of its existence as a silly, dumb movie it reminded me of what a Roger Corman movie might feel like as a modern-day superhero blockbuster. Whatever feelings you may have had for 2018's Venom, I imagine they will only be magnified with the sequel, Let There Be Carnage, where it appears that the filmmakers took the goofy, campy elements from the original and magnified them exponentially.
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