'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' Review Megathread

Rotten tomatoes 58% as of 83 reviewsCritics concensus:A sequel aimed squarely at fans of the original's odd couple chemistry, Venom: Let There Be Carnage eagerly embraces the franchise's sillier side.Publication, scoreReviewTribune News 2.5/4Doesn't have that sense of joyful discovery and gleeful mischief that the first film did, because it's obviously now a comedy on purpose. But the Venom/Eddie dynamic remains the best buddy action comedy going these days.Detroit News, DIt's short, cheap looking and maybe made for 8-year-olds. It's only fun if your idea of fun is being screamed at by a demon voice while staring at a mishmash of special effects for an hour and some change.Chicago Sun Times 2/4The fine actors onscreen are mere accessories to the computerized puppets thrashing and slashing and stabbing and biting and roaring and breaking stuff all over the place before only one of them is left standing. Sigh.NY Magazine Vulture, RottenEveryone's in on the joke in Venom: Let There Be Carnage, and it's more of a bummer than I could have imagined.SF Chronicle 0/4It's the worst movie Tom Hardy ever made. It's the worst movie Woody Harrelson ever made. And it's the worst movie Michelle Williams ever made.Bleedingcool, 6.5Venom: Let There Be Carnage knows exactly what it wants to be, shows up, and then ends before it gets overly long. While not a great movie, it's much more tonally consistent than the first one and leans into the things that worked.Cinemablend 2/5Rather than really make an effort to change things, the production clearly saw the previous movie's success as validation of its bad choices, so it regularly succumbs to many of the same issues...CNN, RottenA mind-numbingly tiresome sequel, filled with uninspired comedy and a CGI monster fight that seems to drag on forever.Rogerebert.com 3/4Silliness was the first film's strength, which everyone involved seems to have realized and leaned into hard for the follow-up.Washington Post 3/4This sequel inhabits the same comfortably dumb space as its predecessor. If you liked the first one, you'll like this one.Variety, RottenOverseeing it all is Serkis, who understands the technology required to get the necessary virtual performances better than almost anyone, but demonstrates almost no vision as a director.The Atlantic, RottenThe viewing experience is like going to a nightclub and having someone scream the plot in your ear over a thumping bass line -- ironic, given that Venom's biggest weakness is sound waves.Wall Street Journal, FreshTo its perverse credit, Venom 2, as it's being called, manipulates its audience with all the tentacles it can deploy, most of them cheerfully ridiculous.Vanity Fair, RottenIt is mostly noisy and flimsy and without purpose, a hasty response to the original's unexpected success and little else. Naturally a third film is advertised at the end.New York Post 1/4Sitting at "Venom: Let There Be Carnage," you quietly ask yourself, "What have I done wrong? Is God punishing me?"New York Times B-This is, in essence, a slapstick blood bath about two threesomes both in desperate need of throuples therapy.Release date: Oct 1Runtime: 1h37mStarring: Tom Hardy, Michelle Williams, Naomie Harris, Reid Scott, Stephen Graham, Woody HarrelsonDirector: Andy SerkisTrailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FmWuCgJmxo https://ift.tt/3zoGOk6 via /r/movies https://ift.tt/39Tgd4u