Jason Momoa’s DCEU Epic Lands On Netflix—Here’s When You Can Stream It
The DCEU’s last wave is about to crash onto Netflix as James Wan’s Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom dives in, forcing Jason Momoa’s Arthur Curry into an uneasy alliance with imprisoned brother Orm to stop Black Manta from wrecking Atlantis. Released December 22, 2023 and written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, the sequel brings the franchise’s final chapter to streaming soon.
File this under oddly delayed but welcome: the last movie in the DCEU era is finally heading to Netflix. If you missed Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom in theaters (or just want to revisit it without leaving your couch), the streaming date is set.
When and where to watch
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom hits Netflix on November 27, 2025. That date comes via What's on Netflix, which confirmed the pickup. Yes, that is nearly two years after its original theatrical release on December 22, 2023. For a franchise that has since hit the reset button, the timing is... not exactly urgent.
For the paper trail crowd: the streaming news was first flagged by Disheeta Maheshwari at SuperHeroHype.
The movie itself (aka the last DCEU lap)
Directed by James Wan and written by David Leslie Johnson-McGoldrick, the sequel puts Jason Momoa's Arthur Curry in an uneasy alliance with his jailed half-brother Orm (Patrick Wilson). The reason: Black Manta (Yahya Abdul-Mateen II), still furious over his father's death, gets his hands on the ancient Black Trident. That weapon is bad news for both the surface and the underwater world, so Arthur and Orm have to tag-team to keep Atlantis (and everyone else) intact. Amber Heard is back as Mera.
- Jason Momoa as Arthur Curry / Aquaman
- Patrick Wilson as Orm Marius
- Amber Heard as Mera
- Yahya Abdul-Mateen II as David Kane / Black Manta
How it went over
The movie didn't charm critics overall, landing a 33% Tomatometer score on Rotten Tomatoes from 212 reviews at last check. That said, some took it as a breezy send-off. The Los Angeles Times' Michael Ordoña called it a 'mostly diverting, upbeat closer' and leaned into the sequel's buddy-duo energy compared to the first film's pulp adventure vibe.
'Mostly diverting, upbeat closer.'
'The experience of watching "Lost Kingdom" (directed by James Wan, as was "Aquaman") is often a fun one, though. Where the first movie felt like a superhero version of "Raiders of the Lost Ark," this sequel is a buddy cop movie: Arthur, the freewheeling, fight-first-sort-it-out-later one, and Orm, the by-the-book stickler.'
— Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times
Commercially, it did decent business for a late-stage franchise sequel: $440.2 million worldwide, including $124.5 million in North America (via Box Office Mojo). Not a monster splash, but not a belly flop either.
Bottom line: if you cared about the DCEU at all, this is the capper, finally landing in one of the easiest places to watch it.