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Venom: The Last Dance stays firmly in its ridiculous lane

Sony’s standalone Venom movies have never been masterpieces, and The Last Dance is no exception.

Especially after Deadpool & Wolverine, the way The Last Dance basically gives the multiverse the middle finger is kind of refreshing and makes it feel like Sony and Marcel — who also wrote the first two Venom films — are trying to stay in a very specific lane, similar to Madame Web ’s. Much in the same way Let There Be Carnage introduced its Cletus Kasady with a lore-dense info dump, The Last Dance tries its best to explain the whole deal with the symbiote god Knull (Andy Serkis) through a CGI-heavy chunk of exposition pulled from the comics. But Knull’s plan — he can send other kinds of monsters through very Doctor Strange-like portals to find things for him — is so contrived that his presence in The Last Dance feels like the result of there not being all that many Venom-related characters Sony holds the cinematic rights to.

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