Aquaman Trailer Review: We Came for the Muscles and Stayed for the Plot

Yesterday, Jason Momoa circulated this fantastic selfie video promoting Aquaman. We were shook. The view! Of which we mean, his pecs and back, was spectacular. Also, a cliff in Hawaii is nice too. So we posse’d up, ready for a full on thirst fest of a Aquaman trailer today. Because if DC was finally going to give us what we want, at least it should be Momoa looking fine as frog hair. Now the full trailer has dropped from San Diego Comic Con and we’ve got thoughts. Leslie: Let’s be clear, I’ve been watching Momoa’s back muscles flex since he was in Stargate: Atlantis as a character named Ronon Dex (don’t pretend you don’t remember that.) I even sat through several episodes of Game of Thrones for him. Several. I haven’t been watching his recent show, Frontier (on Netflix), because really, there are somethings even thirst won’t make me do, and one of those is watch *another* television show about dudes conquering the west or whatever. On Aquaman, I was in the “whatever, he’s a dude who talks to fish” camp for years until a girlfriend explained that most of the planet is covered in water, so talking to fish is actually more useful than talking to people. So I’d say I prefer Aquaman to almost any other member of the Justice League except Wondy.

Given this background — yay Momoa, yay Aquaman — I’m pretty squarely in the target audience for this movie. The trailer does not disappoint, but it isn’t as sexy sexy as I thought it would be. It is a good trailer, classic. It introduces…