'Venom: Let There Be Carnage' is the spectacularly stupid sequel fans craved

“Look at all these weirdos,” exclaims alien symbiote and certified sex symbol Venom, while walking into a party during Venom: Let There Be Carnage. “My kind of people!”

It's a fitting thing to say in the moment — what with Venom’s hulking body camouflaged by a sea of partygoers in costumes that somehow let his...