In environmentally conscious 'Aquaman,' the villain has a point
by Jen Yamato, Los Angeles Times
Dec 24, 2018
4 minutes
In Warner Bros.' "Aquaman," the titular comic book superhero, Arthur Curry (Jason Momoa), seeks to unite the world while his villainous half brother, King Orm (Patrick Wilson), crusades to keep it divided. For too long, Orm rants, the oceans have suffered at the hands of humans above land whose rampant pollution keeps killing the seas and its kingdoms below. The only answer, according to Orm, is war.
He's a tylosaur-riding villain stirring up alarming currents of xenophobic mania across Atlantis, a self-serious tyrant in an over-the-top spectacle of winking, wanton silliness. He is, rather successfully, rallying the ocean's formidable armed forces toward
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