In the brief yet purgatorial history of superhero movies - which once gave us three different Spider-Men in the span of nine years - we’ve never really gotten the chance to watch such wildly divergent takes on the same characters, played by several of the same actors, in the same cinematic universe. The Best 36 LGBTQ Movies and TV Shows Streaming on Netflix Right NowĢ023 Emmy Predictions: Outstanding Animated Program 'One True Loves' Review: Simu Liu's Charm Cannot Save This Hallmark-Adjacent Slog 'Paint' Review: Owen Wilson Is a Womanizing Wannabe Bob Ross in This Bizarre Comedy ![]() It must be liberating to make a $150 million (give or take) mulligan for a widely maligned disaster that still managed to gross almost a billion dollars despite becoming a punchline along the way, and that’s really what this unhinged carnival of R-rated cartoon mayhem amounts to at the end of the day: Not a reboot of or a sequel to 2016’s “Suicide Squad,” but rather a second draft. The most fun and least depressing superhero movie in a very long time, Gunn’s deliriously ultra-violent “The Suicide Squad” wears the yoke of its genre with a lightness that allows it to slip loose of the usual restraints, if not quite shake them off altogether.
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