My 12-year-old son is an avid Marvel/comic book adaptation fanatic, whilst his old man is a diehard horror lover; - so watching this "Venom" together is probably the closest we come to a father & son bonding session. With nearly two hours of non-stop digital effects, mass destruction, cool transformations and plenty of action, my son had a jolly good time. Me, being an old-fashioned guy and a hater of computerized playgrounds, had quite many eye-rolling moments throughout the film. Still, I found "Venom" much more entertaining than the average installment in the "Avengers", "Spiderman", "Thor" or "Captain America" franchises, simply because the pivot character is (initially, at least...) a purely evil and undefeatable extraterrestrial force. I tried to look at "Venom" as a traditional type of alien invasion Sci-Fi/horror, with the nasty looking symbiote being reminiscent to the creatures in "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" or "The Thing". Although far superior to human beings, the alien is a parasite and needs a bodily host. The fact that he fires off slick one-liners and develops a conscience is most unfortunate, but commercially inevitable, I guess. Oh well, at least the big, ugly and monstrous creep bites off a couple of heads. I'm always in favor of that.