Leaving aside the film and TV appearances, Aquaman's always been a bit of a joke for comic fans. The usual refrain is "his super power is that he can breath underwater." Which still puts him a leg up over Matter Eater Lad (whose power was that he could eat anything).
That's overstating it a little bit, since he could also speak to fish telepathically, but that's not a power that generated much excitement either.
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For baby boomers like me, a major conceptual obstacle with this big screen version of the DC Comics character Aquaman is that the character is more like the Marvel Comics' character the Sub-Mariner! But, considering the dynamics of movie-making today, I suppose this new amalgamated antihero superhero is a metaphor for this age when discovering the right synergistic balance in a corporate merger, and marketed to appeal to the precise demographic audience is all the rage, and most profitable, regardless of its historical traditions and roots and artistic value.
I think you missed the best of all Aquamen, The Late Late Show's Craig Ferguson of a few years back.
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