I am not familiar with the comic books. I just enjoy a movie on its own merit and I enjoyed the first. However the cheesy voice by the host just caricaturizes the whole thing. I do not see the 'humor' in Venom's need to constantly eat a head. It's juvenile and gets boring pretty fast.

Having said that it is visually stunning - at least so far before I turned it off. (on a side not, if you want to see a 'cool' version where a possessed Higher entity has full control of a Lower self and pure, adrenaline action I would suggest the movie Upgrade.

Venom sounds like an action movie injected with cheesy SNL venom. Fail on my book,