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Best movie ever!
Dynamixor
The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.
Neive Bellamy
Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.
xgray-03873
I'm sorry, but I just don't know what to say about this movie anymore. I mean, I'm not even sure why DC and Warner Bros. would even bother to adapt the first issues of the New 52's Justice League comics into this. The only complaints that I have is that Hal Jordan is an idiot and I mean, really. How is it that he doesn't know who Bruce Wayne is, yet, the Flash does?! That makes no sense. That and Billy Batson is an ungrateful little creep in both his normal form and as Shazaam.Overall, I'm just gonna say, don't even bother watching this movie, if you're like a new-comer to DC animated properties. Just watch the regular Justice League TV series, instead. That should give you a nice introduction to the characters and how they became a team.
lovelyleah76-235-208960
I liked the Justice League animation series and the feature lengths as they had the same cast and crew but this one... When I saw this was on Netflix I thought fantastic I liked the previous feature lengths like Superman/Batman: Apocalypse. It probably has a great story and I was excited to watch it but the voices.. ea gads the voices of Batman and Wonder woman were really shocking, whoever did the casting... no... Sorry but Sean Astin is not a voice acting its like saying the woman off the Simpsons who does Lisa is a voice actor.I couldn't get past the first few minutes of it. Just hire the cast from the animated series, to re dub and start again with this.
Neil Welch
Waves of parademons attack and Earth's main super-heroes band together in defence somewhat reluctantly (because they don't like each other).This animated movie tells a very simple story of a huge but unfocused invasion, fought off by well-known superheroes and Cyborg. There is some origin stuff (including Cyborg), but not enough given that these are the New 52 versions of the characters. And that means that Superman is not a character of humility and nobility, he's a brash young man driven by impulse. Wonder Woman is not a character of gravitas and depth, she is shallow and temperamental. Cosmic policeman Green Lantern, responsible for a huge sector of the galaxy, is a trivial smartar$e. And so on. These are not the characters many viewers will be expecting to see, and they needed more explanation.The film, which has virtually no substance behind the almost non-stop action, is a wonderful example of just how misconceived DC's New 52 reboot was: just about everything which made its characters so iconic has been abandoned and replaced with something not as good. At a stroke, overall quality has been diminished by a material amount.Lamentable.
dramafreak42
As a massive fan of DC animated films this one leaves me deeply divided. What it does well, it does extremely well. However what it does poorly results in some moments that are both painful and boring. It'd be easier to let the faults go if this wasn't the start of a new DCAU (DC Animated Universe) continuity.So the film opens in a world where most of the key superheroes exist, but have yet to actually interact with each other. When a massive world-threatening even occurs they must all come together for the first time to combat it. It's not the most complex story out there, but it's an appropriately huge threat to justify bringing all the characters together.Starting with the positives: the action scenes are well planned, exciting to watch and well paced. Given that most of the combat is against the somewhat generic and identical parademons, it's high praise that it doesn't leave you burned out by the end. Most of the voice cast works very well, and the characterizations of most of the characters is familiar while being just slightly different from what most fans have seen on screen so far. Shazam is a surprise highlight in this regard.However, while most of the characters work very well there are two glaring exceptions. The first is the main villain Darkseid. While the film does a good job of showing his raw power, he comes off as extremely generic. There's none of the mastermind scheming that makes him more than just a big brute, and for this reason he could just as easily have been swapped out for any number of other hulking baddies (Doomsday or Soloman Grundy come to mind.) He's really just the boss fight at the end of the film, not a proper character in his own right. It doesn't help that his dialog is also generic super-villain drivel, not that it matters because mostly he only grunts and shouts. During the fights, the film also shares the "Man of Steel's" disregard for collateral damage. While it's fair that plenty of buildings were going to be obliterated in this conflict, none of the heroes seem to have any concern about this happening. This means that fans of Superman who were irritated by his apparent apathy at the lives put in danger by his fighting in a city will have the same criticism here applied to the entire Justice League.The much bigger problem than Darkseid however is Wonder Woman. She is very poorly written, given naïve and grating dialog throughout, frequently treated as a punchline. It's probably meant to be funny but it just never plays as anything other than irritating. The overly enthusiastic performance of Michelle Monaghan makes it even worse. She exudes none of the stoic strength that made so many of the previous animated takes on the character so powerful. And the almost immediate attraction to Superman only serves to cheapen her further. I'll admit to being fundamentally against the power-couple of Superman and Wonder Woman, as I feel it inherently undermines her. He's literally the only man on the planet that she could be paired with that she isn't the power in the relationship.There's still plenty that works here, with stellar action and most of the characters having good chemistry (I could watch Green Lantern and Batman bicker all day long.) However the things that aren't working aren't just minor nitpicks, they're fundamental flaws. And some of them are ones we're going to be stuck with for future DCAU releases, which for the first time ever removes my excitement at future adventures of Wonder Woman.
