Here I go again!*

I was kind of hoping my last post would be the last time I would need to fix a DC superhero movie.

Well, I saw Suicide Squad last weekend, and unfortunately, it can be improved.

Specifically, we see the very Aussie Boomerang a few times with his fluffy pink unicorn (and it’s hilarious)! Later on, he gets shot in the chest, but it turns out the shot was blocked by…a wad of cash?!? Why not get it blocked by the fluffy pink unicorn**? Links it all together, and adds in another opportunity for Boomerang to play up that all-important comic-relief!

Aaaand…ummm...that’s it really!***

Apart from that (actually, even with that), I enjoyed it a lot! Just fun from start to finish, cool characters and nice callbacks to comic moments (such as Harley and Joker dancing):

In fact, I pretty much agree with everything in this (positive) review: http://www.slashfilm.com/suicide-squad-review/ (even though I don’t really care about (or even really noticed) the problems with “pacing” in the movie – I just enjoyed the ride).  

For my own very quick, very flawed review, I’d say it’s kind of like Guardians of the Galaxy, crossed with Escape from New York, one of the Mummy movies, and a really loud music video…

Another couple of positive reviews (they’re hard to find, so I thought I’d put some of them here!) are here and here (and Erik follows that review up with some possible changes, most of which make sense (he doesn’t address the pink unicorn in the room, though)). 

And I don’t agree with all of these, but some of these suggestions would make sense (but keep Captain Boomerang – he may be a mega-douche in the comics, but he was great here, and it seems clear that keeping close to the comics is not what Warner Bros seems to be going for, anyway…)

But, as I alluded to before, positive reviews are few and far between – it’s been getting slammed by the critics. I certainly understood those rage-aholics and their rage-ahol when it came to B V S, but I don't really get it with Suicide Squad.

For example, a common complaint seems to be that Enchantress is not enough of a Big Bad, but I think she, as the villain, totally fits the story – that story being that Amanda Waller will do whatever it takes to cover her ass. The Squad’s first mission is not to save Midway City, but to rescue Waller – it makes sense that the reason she would mobilise her new team of freaks for the first time would be to save herself. Especially when she caused the crisis in the first place, by manipulating, and then failing to contain, the Enchantress. Then, when her chopper goes down and she’s captured by the Enchantress and things start getting real messed up, the Squad goes in to rescue her and take out the Big Bad. The plot and the villain (well, the villain from the point of view of the Squad…apart from Waller...) are therefore very self-contained, and it makes total sense to me.

Another issue people seem to have is that the movie doesn’t include enough Joker, and that Joker and Harley’s relationship is not representative of the one in the comics – i.e., some people don’t like the fact that they seem more lovey-dovey – but I actually prefer it. Harley’s love for the Joker in the comics, in light of the way he treats her (and how many times he tries to kill her), is really disconcerting, as well as tough to believe (let alone understand). But here, it seems he genuinely likes her (while still being mental and bad), and swoops in twice to try and save her. So it makes much more sense in this universe that she would want to be with him – they’re crazy together. Although he does leave her in a car wreck at the bottom of a river at one point, too, so I like that nod to his own douchery.

I also liked his role in this movie – not too much, but with his own genuine Harley-related subplot, that ties in well to what the Squad are doing.

SO, I would say: Get out there and watch it! Don't take it seriously - it's not high art, it's a freaking comic book movie with explosions and stuff. 

What an age to be alive!!!

* With thanks to David Coverdale. Incidentally – "Whitesnake" would be a good name for a member of Suicide Squad (maybe if they release an R-rated version…)

** With even more thanks to @joetwit99…

*** Actually, I do have one more - less Bohemian Rhapsody, please! Not just in this movie, in the world!! I'm over it!!! Help me, change.org!!!!