Aquaman (2018)

This is an acceptable entry into the DC world, but it is no Wonder Woman.  Additionally, I watched this on a transpacific flight, so my level of critique may be impaired. 
Aquaman, or Arthur as he is called, is a half human, half Lost City of Atlantian, the product of a love affair between his rebellious queenly mother and his lighthouse keeper father. After his birth, she was stolen away, went home, married the king she was betrothed to and had another son.  So the battle between the legitimate versus the illegitimate is set up. 
Arthur has long hair and tattoos, a knack for wisecracks and a fondness for beer, and just wants to be left alone. He rejects allegiance to land or sea, but eventually succumbs to prodding by the idealistic Atlantean Princess Mera and becomes a force for good at a time when radical forces, led by Arthur’s treacherous half-brother Orm, want to destroy the land-dwellers as revenge for polluting and militarizing the ocean.  We get where Orm is coming from, though.  High in my Facebook feed this morning was a beached dead whale with a mountain of plastic spilling out of it's mouth.