Suicide Squad 2 *spoilers*

[Badgerfriend]

Ss2 was shallow I didnt like it because it was a terrible movie. Harley Quinns character got a complete downgrade and there wasn't even a Joker. How did they go from ss1 to ss2? The ss2 characters were awful, everyone of them, from Weasel to John Cena to the girl who controled rats.

The plot was like a ship with a big hole in it. The boss was a giant starfish.

I feel like every little thing that could go wrong with a movie happened in this one.

Did you like Suicide Squad 2?

 

[Varzar]

I actually liked it better than SS1.
I thought it was funny, and over the top silly.
I viewed the whole movie as more of a comedy though than anything serious. The plot is ridiculous for sure.

 

[Qoyote]

I'm the complete opposite. I couldn't finish the original (got close) but I liked 2. I thought all the characters were funny and they had great chemistry, and the absurd parts were hilarious. I'm probably too deep into superheroes/anime to appreciate some of them (I heard Polka-Dot Man's backstory and I was like "yeah, makes sense"), but I lost my mind at Harley seducing the president.

Weasel's the perfect example of how you really can get away with anything if you're cute. He killed 27 children... And I love him!

Starro may be a B-lister but at least he's a B-lister with some history unlike the last villains. I legit felt sad for him: she's trapped and tortured for thirty years, but when she finally gets out they have to kill her to save everyone around her. And they do it in the goriest way possible because 2021's the Year of the Grindhouse Superhero apparently. I get it's part of the joke, but gore jokes aren't landing for me like they used to. I've seen too many lately.

Spoiler: Political but hopefully not insulting

I wish, if they were going to tackle a serious theme like colonialism, they'd look at the costs of taking it away more. I feel like a lot of people get sold on ideas like multiculturalism and de-colonizing when they're young, but when they get older and realize it's a lot more painful/harder than they thought, they decide it's impossible or even flip the other way.

Thinker has a line that's something like "Americans have always been squeamish about what's necessary [to maintain their power/lifestyle] so people like me have to do it". No one ever gives a good counter in the movie IIRC, we're just supposed to already know he's wrong. I guess when he said that I hoped the movie would help me work through my confusion about all this.

I know it's a comedy, but the movie felt like it was taking that theme pretty dang seriously, especially by the end. Like if you took anything away from it, it was supposed to be that theme. It felt superficial considering how much it cared, at the exact moment I needed more.

Also how are those guys not in Guantanamo after they knocked out Waller, Fat Waller never would've let them get away with this