Venom: The Last Dance currently has a very poor 37% on Rotten Tomatoes across 71 critics. Very, very bad. But…this is Venom. And people love Venom,

Maybe it’s that Sony’s Spider-Man-adjacent “Venom” movie franchise had nowhere to go but up after 2021’s “Venom: Let There Be Carnage.” Maybe I simply can’t help but be drawn into any film featuring “12 Years a Slave” star Chiwetel Ejiofor.

Now a trilogy, the "Venom" movies have a distinct tone for Marvel-derived products, neither somber nor self-referential. That's largely due to its star's input.