Their plan, however, is gloriously insane the dictator of Corto Maltese plans to wipe out America using a 30-year-old experiment gone wrong: Starro, a giant extraterrestrial starfish that spawns face-hugging offspring to re-animate & control the dead. With the exception of Task Force X director Amanda Waller (Viola Davis), the antagonists are perfunctory. But King Shark steals every scene he's in, a perpetually hungry manfish who manages to be both monstrous and endearing (and a role Sylvester Stallone was born to play). Polka-Dot Man (David Dastmaichian) and Ratcatcher 2 (Daniela Melchior) are also fun, each with amusing backstories. As Bloodsport, the de-facto leader of this new team, Idris Elba strikes the right balance of stoicism and uncertainty, while John Cena (as Peacemaker) once-again demonstrates he's more adept at comedy than pure action. But everyone else is wonderfully realized and played perfectly by the ensemble cast. Ironically, the one we're most familiar with - Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) - is the least interesting, perhaps because she's already been established with two previous films and there isn't much more Gunn could do with her. And like Guardians, it's ultimately the characters that matter. In fact, the whole thing plays very much like Guardians of the Galaxy without a filter. Punctuated by gobs of gags and hilarious dialogue, the movie earns its dismemberments and f-bombs along the way. Hence, the film is vivid, violent and vulgar, yet at the same time, seldom feels pandering or gratuitous. And for the first time since his directorial debut, Slither, Gunn is unbound by the restrictions of a PG-13 rating, something else the material really needed. He may not have created Suicide Squad, but this adaptation has his stamp all over it. Material like this needs Gunn's flair for irreverence, clever dialogue and, most importantly, instilling characters with engaging personalities. Their second smartest move was nabbing James Gunn for The Suicide Squad, and not just because the first film was terrible. The smartest move DC ever made was to quit concerning themselves with cinematic world building and focus on making (mostly) standalone films that were simply entertaining.and didn't require a master's degree in Snydernomics to appreciate.
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