If Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom were a song, it might be Nickelback’s How You Remind Me. The Canadian rock band delivered an ersatz, MTV-friendly grunge-style anthem the best part of a decade after the early 90s genre had lost all of its grit and vitality. The superhero sequel arrives with the entire comic book universe in which it once existed having been subject to a major reset after James Gunn took the reins of the newly rebranded DC Universe. Arthur Curry’s old mucker Batfleck is probably gone forever (though there are reports that both he and Michael Keaton’s dark knight shot scenes for the film) and Ezra Miller’s Flash has reset the multiverse so violently that it would hardly be surprising to learn that Krypto the Superdog is going to be the new head of the Justice League and Dumb Bunny has risen to the mantle of Queen of Themyscira.
