a5c7b9f00b The world&#39;s finest heroes found the Justice League in order to stop an alien invasion of Earth. A huge disappointment after Flashpoint Paradox (also reviewed by this writer). It is oddly faithful to the very first DC comic brand, appropriately named ACTION, because there is a lot of action here. But that&#39;s all. No connection with the audience. The voice actors sound like they would rather be somewhere else, especially Batman. The writers clearly spent too much time watching the AVENGERS live action because they have started to believe they can write banter and witty repartee like Joss Whedon. Which they cannot. (All they do is create dialog which will embarrass some parents, but likely not their children). They have, OMG, given Green Latern lines of snarky dialog which – trust me – could only ever be spoken convincingly by Robert Downey Jr.– and the only place THAT is going to happen is inside a REAL alternate universe. DC itself, having happily entered a fantasy world when everything old can be re-invented and re-imagined exactly to their liking – much like the Federal Reserve is doing with the world economy – seems determined to extract every possible dollar they can from the Shazam franchise. Even though there is really no such franchise. And the Shazam story, with its goofy mysticism and other foibles, raises the Spiderman legend to the level of King Lear in comparison. Plus, it is more than a little annoying that they tried to save money on animation by not drawing any bystanders in the endless fight scenes. Even Superman 2 live-action – back in the age of dinosaurs – knew that, if you destroy cities helter-skelter, there are going to be some fleeing civilians somewhere. As for the villain, maybe its just me, but I am getting tired of giant Androids trying to take over Earth. There are more interesting planets to conquer out there. Trust me. I read a lot of comics. This is a strange little film in the fact that it has so much wrong with it… but it also has so much right.<br/><br/>So what&#39;s wrong?<br/><br/>Batman&#39;s voice. There&#39;s just no conviction, power, or menace in it. This is one of The Bat&#39;s main features, other than his lack of super powers. It&#39;s one of the main talking points when a new Batman a character is cast. Everybody loves Kevin Conroy from The Animated Series, I really liked Anthony Ruivivar in Beware The Batman (it has the best vocal talents of the Batman series), now Will Arnet has done a brilliant job in The Lego Batman Movie. Unfortunately, Jason O&#39;Mara doesn&#39;t do the character justice.<br/><br/>Cyborg&#39;s origin. Though it follows the lines it&#39;s blue goo which I didn&#39;t likeit took the blame off his father, Silas Stone creating The Cyborg out of his dying son. This made Victor Stone more a casualty of Darkseid&#39;s attack rather than the love of an estranged father.<br/><br/>The appearance of Shazam, who wasn&#39;t in the original story. The choice to use Shazam instead of Aquaman, in my eyes, was not a good one. Aquaman was instrumental in the defeat of Darkseid and his Parademons. There&#39;s also the brilliant scene when he has the whales and sharks erupt out of the ocean to devour the Parademons.<br/><br/>The Parademons. I really do like the original design, the ones in the movie are too bulky and appear to be more machine than living entity.<br/><br/>What&#39;s right with the film?<br/><br/>The Green Lantern, voiced brilliantly by Justin Kirk, has the right amount of bravado and ego and his relationship with The Batman and The Flash helps to give the movie more power and a sense of humour.<br/><br/>Christopher Gorham does a great job of voicing The Flash and adds the joy and wonder that the character exudes in the comic.<br/><br/>Wonder Woman, though you don&#39;t know her origin story for the New 52 in the movie this could make her strong character feel a little strange, to begin withshe&#39;s like a child in a toy shop… if you knew that she&#39;s new to the real world after leaving Themiscyra would&#39;ve helped there - however it&#39;s this scene which gives the character heart butsoonthe Parademons attack, her sword starts swinging and the no-nonsense female warrior we know and love come to the fore, and Michelle Monaghan who does a great job at voicing all aspects of the character.<br/><br/>Though the thing that really makes this film work is the story and the action, for which Director Jay Oliva does a great job.<br/><br/>These elements nullify the bad ones make the film enjoyable and watchable, though it isn&#39;t the best of the Justice League films. Still worth a watch though.
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