THE Swuiwide Swad

Clearly James Gunn is feeling a bit repressed under Marvel, so when given a chance to do an R18 for DC...

The easy premise with SS is that movies/missions can be completely independent, so there's no need to acknowledge the previous movie, beyond "Hey Harley was in that, then in Birds of Prey, what she doing here?" which is largely handwaved away. Beyond that, all new plot with (nearly) all new characters, and so make a bet before you go in as to who will survive and who will be killed off because no-one knows who they are (and I wouldn't even count out all the comics related people who get thanks at the end from that list). But what we do get is "go to this country where there are bad people, and deal with the bad people, and the bad things they are doing." Simple enough plot.

And fine, this clears the (low, low) bar of being better than the previous movie, but this movie still feels a little weak. It could be trimmed down some, there is just a few too many characters to try to squeeze in, so a slimmer movie would be better. Still that does let James Gunn go ham with the gore, and that's fun to see.

Margot Robbie is back with her accent and her special ability to... not get hit with bullets? Which is a neat ability, but otherwise is there because we have to have Harley. Idris Elba gets a lot to do, and his power is CGI morphing guns! Speaking of ham, John Cena is clearly having a good time, and indeed the whole cast do look to be enjoying themselves.

And I'll throw this trailer in... why, because I know one of the stuntwomen who is in this clip! (And by "know" I mean "I happen to be on the same discord server as her".)

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