Venom 3 Is Why People Make Fun of Marvel Movies
Written by Emily Gaudet
As a longtime fan of the Marvel franchise, I cannot say that I am surprised by Venom: The Last Dance. I didn’t enter the theater believing I was about to witness a masterpiece of film, but I had set my expectations a little high. Being the third and final movie to the Venom trilogy, I was very curious to see how the writers had planned on wrapping up so many loose ends. After watching the film, it was easy to realize they simply hadn’t.
Though the movie introduced Knull as a character and perhaps the next “big bad” of Venom’s cinematic universe, it was very easy to forget that he was behind the issues that Eddie and Venom were facing throughout the film. Although Knull is confined on another planet, he was an integral part of the movie, but didn’t receive much screen time which left me disappointed. When Knull was shown to have been freed from his intergalactic prison at the end of the film, I was reminded that he had been the antagonist all along. For any comic-readers, knowing Knull’s significance might not have been an issue, but as a person who solely relies on Marvel films it was a bit disorienting.
Most notably, Venom: The Last Dance struck me as incredibly corny, even for a Venom movie. The cliche action-film lines that were littered throughout the script cheapened the experience. Additionally, the twists that the film tried to pull off were far too heavily foreshadowed, and they all seemed to fall flat. If anything, they made the movie harder to take seriously. While including a protagonist with a disability seemed like an interesting play in the beginning of the movie, I was saddened to see that the solution to her plight and arc of her character surrounded her disability being ‘cured’ instead of embraced as a part of her character that brings her unique perspectives and outlooks as a scientist.
While there were definitely parts of the film that I thoroughly enjoyed, and I don’t regret seeing it, it’s not a movie for everyone. It was difficult to tell whether or not the movie was trying to take itself seriously with all of the ridiculous stunts they were pulling: namely the scenes that included Venom-horse, and the ABBA dance party. The end of the movie is what I believe most people would have a gripe with. Showing a cheesy, 90’s-style montage of Eddie and Venom’s best moments while The Chainsmokers play in the background was certainly not what I had expected, and I had to laugh at the theater as it played. Overall I would give the film a generous 6/10, but advise all Marvel fans to wait for its release on Disney+ instead of spending the money to see it in a theater.
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