I wasn't a huge fan of the first Venom film tgat came out in 2018 but it was very funny mostly due to Tom Hardy's frantically comic performance as Eddie Brock/Venom. It was what was. A rated R comic book film with a more black comedic edge. Not bad, but not terribly memorable. Now with Venom: Let There Be Carnage we get more of the same only this ti e the film goes for pure camp. It has virtually no story. The villain, Cleatus Kasaday which turns into Carnage is played with over the top glee by Woody Harrelson. He is a serial killer on death row that wants to give Eddie an exclusive interview and reveal certain facts about his murders. He bites Eddie at one point thus ingesting a small part of Venom so he becomes a red symbiote. Carnage. More or less we know the rest. Most of the film which us pretty short at about 90 minutes spends most of its running time with Eddue and Venom's back and forth banter that was also present in the first film. It's funny at times but becomes repetitive. Michelle Williams is back as Anne, Eddie's ex fuance who shows up to tell Eddie she is engaged. All of this comes to a head once Carnage shows up. Venom separates from. Eddie after an argument and tries to join with other humans but they all die. Eventually these two rejoin to fight Carnage. It's all done with the typical CGI pyrotechnics and it us entertaining but the film is so jokey and light that you don't really care about what's happening on screen. Woody Harrelson is funny but not really menacing as Cletus. So really no sense of danger or stakes to be memorable. The first film was better in that at least there was some semblance of plot and stakes for the characters.

Uninspired sequel.

Grade: C.