8 Ways Suicide Squad Improved On Batman V Superman

8. It Has A Sense Of Humour

Zack Snyder seems to really love directing movies, but that joy doesn’t come across in a lot of his recent output. Even Sucker Punch – a movie about scantily clad ladies fighting dragons and giant Samurai’s – takes itself quite seriously. Batman V Superman was a similarly po-faced affair, with a brooding Batman facing a depressed Superman while the colourless world around them cowered in fear.

Only Jesse Eisenberg was having any fun, if only because he thought he was guest starring on the Adam West TV show. Suicide Squad is serious when it needs to be, but it remembers to have some fun too. Will Smith has a steady stream of cynical one-liners, Margot Robbie is having a blast playing Harley and who knew Jai Courtney could be funny on purpose?

The humour helps flesh out the human side of the gang, so when events get serious the audience feels for them a lot more. They do mess up one gag, though; when Captain Boomerang flees from the bar, he really should have stayed gone for the rest of the movie.