@thewrap: This really has been a crappy year for superhero movies. The one big blockbuster, #DeadpoolandWolverine, was an onanistic exercise in embarrassing self-promotion, having more in common with the old “That’s Entertainment” musical clip shows than a conventional feature. #JokerFolieaDeuxv was actively mad at its own audience for giving a crap about the Joker in the first place and it nailed its own coffin shut on the way out. Then there’s #MadameWeb which took endless flack at the beginning of the year for being slapdash and modest, but was a harmless trifle in comparison to what came after. The only great superhero movie this year was Vera Drew’s #ThePeoplesJoker, an independent and queer and punk rock take on Batman’s famous villains, which exists in direct defiance of a studio system that would never, ever try this hard to be that personal or push so many boundaries. The closest the studios ever came was in “#Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” a superhero movie about dueling polyamorous throuples who eat people’s heads and are ultimately undone by a lack of commitment to the polycule. #VenomTheLastDance has no such imagination, and abandons what made the other “Venom” movies entertaining and replaces them with plot. Because that’s what people loved about those films. The plot. A few funny moments and a few weird scenes where the Venom symbiote merges with random animals are all we get of the lobster-soaking weirdness of the first two films. And it’s clear that somewhere down the line the filmmakers realized those animals were the movie’s biggest selling point, since the closing credits are full of Venom-suited fauna who didn’t appear in the movie (but clearly should have). Visit thewrap.com to read more.

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