Cinepals - AQUAMAN AND THE LOST KINGDOM Reaction & Review!

Episode Date: March 2, 2024

Achara and Steph react to Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, the thrilling sequel to the 2018 blockbuster Aquaman. Starring Jason Momoa (Game of Thrones, Dune, & Frontier) as the king of Atlantis, who must team up with his half-brother Orm (Patrick Wilson - The Conjuring, Insidious, & Watchmen) to stop Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II - The Matrix Resurrections, Watchmen, & Candyman), who seeks revenge and wields the power of the Black Trident. This film is directed by James Wan (Saw, The Conjuring, & Furious 7) and also features: Amber Heard (The Rum Diary, Justice League, & The Danish Girl), Nicole Kidman (Moulin Rouge, The Hours, & Big Little Lies), Dolph Lundgren (Rocky IV, The Expendables, & Creed II), and Martin Short (Father of the Bride, The Santa Clause 3, & Inherent Vice).   Join our Patreon www.Patreon.com/JabyKoay for the full length reaction to this show and many others ans subscribe to our YouTube channel for the cutdowns www.youtube.com/@cinepals   SOCIAL MEDIA ~CinePals~ Twitter, Instagram, & TikTok: @TheCinePals ~Steph Sabraw~ Instagram: @StephSabraw YouTube: @TheWhirlGirls ~Achara Kirk~ Twitter & Instagram: @AcharaKirk

Senna. Pals. I love that. You were just like... Yes, It's time. It's time. Yes. We've been waiting for the Moa, and he's finally here on Max, you guys. We didn't even have to pay. Well, actually, I pay for a membership, but I didn't have to pay extra for this. It's here. Incredible. Amazing. I heard, like, this movie actually made a billion. Am I correct? I thought this, like, bombed. It grows 434 million worldwide.

Okay, so I don't know where I heard about a billion. I know the first one made like a billion. Anyway. This one still did pretty good for what people thought. My expectations are not high. I'm going to put that out there. But maybe with that in mind, it might be more fun. We're going to watch Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.

I fully intend to enjoy the mammoanus of this all. It's going to be a party. Mm-hmm. I'm the king of a land. I am Aquaman. Ha ha ha. You know me. I feel like this is gonna be like a weird thing to say,

but I feel like this is the type of movie that my mom would enjoy. Like, because my mom, she has no time for like too much drama or anything like that. Too serious. Yeah, too serious. I take that back. She loves a good drama. When she's watching English language movies, because English is not her first language.

She's like, is it fun? Am I enjoying the visuals? Am I enjoying the comedy? And my mom loves, like, slapstick comedy. And so I'm like, yeah, I could probably put this on and my mom would be like, oh, that was fun, you know? Yeah. It was really fun.

To me, because of the Aquaman we know, he's so distinctive as Jason Momoa that you kind of have to make it broken. I love the bro-y-iness of the character of the world that they've created. And I feel like they've done enough work where I'm like, okay, this is just fun. Yeah, and I feel like they really leaned into that a lot more. In this movie, more than ever, he's full on just like Jason Mamoa. There's like no distinction really between Aquaman and Jason Mamoa.

It's just like, he's playing himself. Oh, Martin Short was the, I would have never. Guess that. Oh. That's hysterical. Yeah, he was great. The little Java guy or the big Java guy. It's so interesting because there are some things where I like adore Jason Mamoa, but

you're like, that's Jason Mamoa on screen. Yeah. And he kind of has this like, WWE turn actor vibe where you're like, that's Dwayne the Rock Johnson. That's John Sina. But in the same way, John Sina with his character, his DC character. Oh, peacemaker. Peacemaker.

I'm like, that's my favorite of him. Aquaman is so fun, but it's so interesting seeing Jason Mamoa just directed differently, because in Dune, he's not the Jason Mo- Oh. Did he just put a... Oh, no. Oh, no. No, brother! He's set him up for such failure. But he likes it.

Yeah. Oh my gosh, it's disgusting. That's disgusting. Yeah, that's pretty gross. But the music was fun. I like all the amages. James Guns taking over in Saffron are taking over. Yeah.

DC, this is your last run. Just make it whatever you want. Truly, I mean, it's just like whatever. Yeah. Like, we're just having a fun time and having a laugh. Like, I think the things that I enjoy. the most were just kind of the silliness of it because it just wasn't taking itself too seriously

and so I was like well if you're not taking yourself seriously I'm not taking it seriously yeah and like the kind of the the buddy cop aspect of it was a little bit strange at first like Orm he's such a serious character and then to just kind of have him have this like 180 yeah this very comedic relationship with his brother I'm like okay and but then once I eased into it I was like this is this is funny like it's silly the slapstick comedy was it was just pure silliness I mean if you just

come into it with like well this is pretty much a comedy then yeah you're going to be okay totally totally I think that the brother story was really fun and you always want to see a family being able to connect and his arc from a total jerk to this guy who's eating cockroaches now and accepting the land is fun. I was actually kind of touched at the end as well, which was surprising. Like when Jason Mamoa, Aquaman was just like, you know,

you're my brother, you know? And he had the tears and his eyes. I was like, oh, yeah, like, I feel it too. I've got a little emotional too. Yeah. I mean, I guess as a sibling, I could co-sign that. I think it's so silly to have, you know, long extended drawn-out arguments with your siblings

or any family members but especially immediate family members it's like come on life's too short it's too short just make up and be friends you guys have such cool powers yeah just have a good time how did you feel overall about like the amber herds yeah i was really curious about what they were going to do there because i had heard talks of her of them like really trying to look lessen the as much as possible, which is why they probably leaned into that brother story. I'm curious what the first renditions of the sequel would have been.

But I think they used her just enough in a way that I like her character. I feel like unless you actually read the entire case and watched all the hours, you don't really get to say much about either of them in a, like, career-ending way. Sure. I mean, I definitely like got deep you guys know if you've been watching You are deep into it, but like Jabby

and I got deep into it. I didn't. Yeah. And so there's certainly like a sort of feeling that I feel when I look at her the character of Mira is awesome. And I can see how they really tried, you know, like she's in the beginning, she's in the end,

and then they took her out for like a massive chunk of the middle. And that was probably the compromise in the way that like it made sense because it's like of course she'd have to come like her powers are too good to not have her in the battle especially to save her kid like what would be the reason

unless she's they were just like oh she's just ill the entire time. Unless she got so injured from that first by Manta right. Yeah so it made sense I think strangely I liked her character more in this movie than I did in the first I thought that she

was much cooler, but I think in the first movie, and this is going to sound super trivial, but in the first movie, I was just very distracted by her horrendous wig. Her hair was very bad. It looked good here. It looked good here. They fixed it.

Thank you. But like, I remember watching the first one and then turning to my friend, and we were like, oh my God, Mira's hair. Like, you have all the money in the world. No, I know. I can never forgive a bad wig job because there are hair stylists that can do magic so hire them yeah exactly like

why did her hair it's not a matter of millions of dollars it's a matter of maybe a couple hundred more yeah or like maybe even just a few thousand more whatever it takes get the right way just get it right install it correctly exactly she looked like a knockoff aerial in that movie yeah and that was not good so yeah definitely upgraded the hair in this which I appreciated and I know that sounds kind of dumb but like you know that's just what I noticed yeah

yeah no I feel you it really bothers me in some movies where I'm like you guys I can see the net yeah it's bad it doesn't look like hair I mean I get it she's got like this bright red hair or whatever but like still just make it work I enjoyed this and like the other characters as well like

Dolph Lundgren, his king, and Mr. Crustration. Custation. Custy Custation. It was fun as well. Like, it was just like cute little fun characters. And I think probably my favorite was Randall Park. And I still have no idea what his actual character is called because we just called him Randall. Yeah, Doc.

But he was fun. He was. He was really fun. He brought like a nice kind of fresh energy to the franchise. It still baffles my mind. He wasn't just a cameo in this. He's, like, actually a proper character that they could potentially bring back, although they probably won't.

But, like, he's a proper character in this. And he's, like, a pretty significant character in the MCU as well. I know. And kind of similar characters. Very similar. In different way. You're working for different organizations, but you're, like, the smarts. Yeah, he's basically, like, the nerdy guy who's, like, just trying to get in with the cool kids. That's the energy that he's bringing to it.

And he pulls it off. He does. Like that kind of awkward, nerdy energy that we recognize. That is just so endearing. Yeah. So cute. Yeah, I liked him a lot in this. And like the undersea stuff, they've always done really well.

Like, it's always just really fun to watch, like, just how colorful Atlantis is and how beautiful the world is. And so, yeah, that was really fun. And I enjoyed a lot of the incorporation of, like, the Maori culture or, like, what, I mean, what, what is it, like, Jason Mamoa's Hawaiian, like, roots? Yeah, because Tamara Morrison's Maori, I think. Yes. And Jason Mamoa is Hawaiian, right? Yes.

So, I mean, I'm not an expert, but I'm, they probably still have some, like the Hakka. Yeah, like some similarities. Yeah. Or respected each other enough to learn it But it was really cool They're such a great I love the father-son duo Yeah

I'll never get over to Mara Morrison He's just so great He's so great He's so great And his love His relationship is cute too With Nicole Kidman Yeah

Like that was the whole thing In the first movie That really got me as well Where I was just like Oh my God I love this relationship Between the two of them And then also just for the first movie

the representation of like a mixed race couple like the focus of that movie I was like yes and then I'm going to like the edge of the seat to see if she comes every day yeah like the romance was so sweet in that we didn't get as much in this movie

because they were leaning into the bromance but I love a bromance me too so I'm okay with it overall it's like this movie is not a masterpiece by any means but you know is it good silly fun

yeah it's all right you know like I'd I'd turn it on and I'd probably show it to my mom yeah it's really I think it's a fun family movie yeah that's the review it's a fun family movie don't get too serious about it

yeah the movie wasn't serious so yeah let us know your thoughts in the comments below how did you feel about Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom. And which one did you like better? I don't know. They're probably the first one for me.

Probably the first one for me too. But it's a close second because I feel like the first one established itself so the second one could just have a lot of fun. Yeah. But anyway. Yeah. Let us know you guys. And we'll see you next time.

I'm Incharikuk. This is Stephsabra. Ciao.