September 30, 2021 – Venom 2: Let There Be Carnage.

Alright. So, similar reasons I wasn’t 100% a fan of the first one carry on into this movie. But I kind of expected that, so that’s acceptable. It wasn’t bad. It was fun, had some laughs, was a bit more of that buddy cop vibe. It actually went by a lot faster than I thought it would.

Now, I will say that I have the same problem I had with DC’s Joker movie as with what I expected to happen with Cletus Kasady’s character. They did humanize him, and that’s not who he is. Both Joker and Carnage represent chaotic evil. There should never be any logical or rational explanation for the things they do. That’s not the point of characters like these. And they did add something to his story which was just not anything remotely close to how his character yet would be like. But eh.

I also think this movie should have been a hard R-rated horror thriller. Kasady’s character is one of the most twisted, demented, and horrifying characters in all of comics, and that’s without the Carnage symbiote. And I didn’t really see that side of him in this because it was PG-13. We get that he’s a serial killer, but the fear that one feels reading his character in the comics is emphasized by seeing what he does and reading what he says.

Also, as I said when he was cast, I don’t think Woody Harrelson was the right actor for this role. He did okay and was creepy and such, but it wasn’t how I would have expected the character to be portrayed. And the rating may have had to do with that too, but it never say right with me.

Other than those aspects of the movie, it wasn’t horrible. The story wasn’t that complicated and as I said, it went by quickly. There was also less time spent on the side characters. Not sure if that hurt or helped, but I just noticed that.

The most important part of this movie is:

Mid-credit scene: Um. YES. Holy crap, yes. This made the whole movie worth it XD. I have my theories XD

End-credit scene: No