Oh dear. What we have here is a Howard the Duck, a Hudson Hawk, a big budget stinker which feels like the end of superhero films, when it should have been the beginning of something new.
James Gunn’s Guardians of the Galaxy movies for Marvel were a revelation, even within the context of Marvel’s peak years. They had wit, effortless quirkiness and a daring devil-may-care attitude to the pretensions of the genre, and as such Gunn seemed to be a fine choice for Warner Bros. to be the co-executive overseer of the new DC Universe. After the moody places the last Superman arrived at, with Zack Snyder’s grim Man of Steel and grimmer Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice, bringing in a bit of Guardians-style snarky subversion looked to be the perfect route out of Ever Increasing Darkness.
