“Venom: The Last Dance” is the newest installation of the now trilogy of Venom movies, coming after “Venom,” and “Venom: Let There Be Carnage,” respectively, and it is now being shown in theaters.

With the trilogy being without “Spider-Man,” much like the “Joker” duology being without the “Batman” as its hero, Venom has had to adjust its story drastically for its screen adaptation.

This was done from the beginning due to the strange coinciding that would have to happen, with Tom Holland’s Spider-Man being a part of Disney Marvel’s universe, Sony didn’t want to bring back Spider-Man as to dilute the character or create a new “Spider-Man,” and so they simply decided to create a standalone with the villain acting on his own volition with Spider-Man not being involved, and Peter Parker himself hardly even being mentioned except at the beginning of the first movie.

This creates some mixed opinions and controversies of the quality and story of the films, with many people believing that “Venom” doesn’t work well as a character on his own, while others find it to be a strongly intriguing concept that has expanded on the character on his own and created a far more dynamic character in the process.

“I like how they amplified like the goofiness of the character.” says student O’rion West. “‘Venom’ is really like this big, scary creature. And I mean, he still is, but like more so the universe he’s in for the movies, more so that the way the character is in there is he’s like, more like human, like he has, like a sense of humor and the way that he interacts with his counterpart.”

The “Venom” trilogy is riddled with bits of humor, something that modern hero and villain oriented movies have attempted to do in recent years. Some parts fans argue are funny, whereas others seem to fall quite flat. Regardless, however, it does add a bit of “humanity” to the character that would otherwise be lacking, given how “Venom” is supposed to be a monster alien, you wouldn’t expect him to be “human” in personality.

“Venom” being a “symbiote” lacking complete moral awareness takes a liking to main character Eddie Brock, seeing him as one in the same to him, given that they are “outcasts” of their own separate species societies. Because of this similarity, he finds himself bonding to him rather than temporarily using him before discarding him, given that symbiote aliens are known for controlling a host and making it commit ridiculous and violent acts to feed off of their adrenaline and nutrients, as well as eating the heads of other humans in the process while in this combined symbiotic form.

So all in all, how did the latest movie perform? Should it be watched by those who enjoyed the first couple or the initial movie? Or is it worth it enough to commit to watching the whole trilogy in a Venom movie marathon?

“I would say, watch it and get your own opinion, but don’t have too high of expectations,” says Hayden Whitten, a student who has watched the trilogy, and is familiar with the comics. “It was pretty underwhelming. I had expectations that it would do better than the last one, but it was kind of campy. The first one was good, the second one was lackluster at best.”

“The first one is pretty tight knit, the second one is a little all over the place, and the third one has so many subplots that it’s hard to follow.” Whitten says seemingly dealing out a death blow of devastating disapproval, citing how as the movies progress, they end up lessening in quality and solid plot.

But if “Venom” is simply about the origins of the symbiote and his interaction and introduction with his host Eddie, and the second follows symbiote “Carnage” as the main antagonist in “Venom: Let There Be Carnage” what is this “Last Dance” about?

“Eddie and Venom are on the run. Hunted by both of their worlds and with the net closing in, the duo are forced into a devastating decision that will bring the curtains down on Venom and Eddie’s last dance.” as cited by Rotten Tomatoes.

It’s hard to say that there will be another Venom movie in the works, especially given the title of the last movie in the trilogy, and how it’s quite rare for a movie series to break trilogy status, but there is a promising compulsion at more Venom related content.

In the end credits of “Spider-Man: No Way Home” Eddie is seen talking to a bartender, asking him questions about characters “Iron Man” and “Thanos” before “Spider-Man” is mentioned by the bartender as being New York’s super hero. Eddie then says he should “go talk to this Spider-Man” before disappearing.

This leaves massive room for an expansion given that Venom wasn’t previously in the main MCUl series but has at least at some point been seemingly pushed into their world, leaving room for a complex and possibly forced future story arc, but an interesting one nonetheless.