"Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom" is here at last ... and Yahya Abdul-Mateen II -- for another underwater sci-fi epic of royal intrigue, terrifying monsters, and plenty of Guinness.

I'm very literal about my underwater. It needs to look like it's real. And while I can enjoy that film I don't resonate with it because it doesn't look real." READ MORE: An 'Aquaman' horror spin ...

To avoid those intricacies, other films like "The Shape of Water" (2017) and "Aquaman" (2018) instead filmed the underwater scenes on dry land and added underwater qualities using lighting tricks ...

At one moment in Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom ... and became king of Atlantis, a vast underwater kingdom hidden from the surface world. Now, probably a year or so later, Arthur and Hera (Amber ...

The villain is Black Manta, there are a lot of underwater creatures and battles, there are scenes of Aquaman on the surface world acting reluctant to return to Atlantis, we see Aquaman and Orm ...