First, a Moment of Silence for Dr.
King, Jr. … Alright, now on with the show. Justice
League: War is a direct to video adaptation of Justice League: Origin, the retelling of the founding of the
Justice League as of the New Fifty Two continuity. As such, the costume designs
and interpersonal relationships between the heroes matches the new universe. If you've ever asked, "What could get these guys together," You don't know Darkseid. Let’s get to it.
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| There a reason why Green Lantern and The Flash couldn't make the cover? |
The film begins with a cloaked
figure snatching a woman. It gets a few streets over before being stopped by
Green Lantern Hal Jordan. The figure, originally thought to be a PO’ed Batman,
is revealed to be an ugly as sin monster. The creature belches flames and runs
off. Hal saves the woman, who is rather ungrateful just saying, and resumes pursuit. After a brief chase, Batman arrives and gets in a few good hits. The monster escapes, though, and after a lengthy chase, with some incredibly good banter
between the Emerald and Dark Knights, (Wait, you’re not just a guy in a Bat
costume? Batman grins) they find out what the creature was up to. It planted
some sort of Box in the Sewers of Gotham before going all Voltorb on them. For
those that don’t get the Pokémon reference, it blew itself to pieces. It sheiks "For Darkseid!" before being engulfed in flames. GL just barely saves the two of them from the explosion. Hal tries to scan the Box, but his ring informs him that it has no freaking idea what it is. Given that the ring is connected to the Book of Oa, which is a collection of all the knowledge that the immortal Guardians have, Hal is understandably disturbed by this. Batman
and Green Lantern nab the Box and plan to see if the big blue Boy Scout Superman
has any idea what it is.
We flash to a few different heroes.
We see the Flash conversing with Dr. Silas Stone in Central City. Apparently he’d
found a similar Box and brought it to Stone in S.T.A.R. Labs. We also learn that he'd brought another of the creatures that attacked Gotham to the laboratory. Dr. Stone is pretty disturbed to admit that the creature seemed to be designed to fall apart. Why? Because one does not make expendable soldiers unless they can be quickly and easily replaced. Another quick
stop over to Wonder Woman in DC, she stops a small protest by making the lead
Protestor admit he cross dresses in a Wonder Woman outfit… Disturbing but
funny. Another prospective change and we see Victor Stone, High School Football
star winning his big game while Billy Batson (the 10 year old human form of the
magically empowered Shazam) watches from Dr. Stone’s reserved seat.
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| Very few can swipe the ring off a GL's finger.. appendage. |
In Metropolis, Batman and Green
Lantern have a quick brawl with Superman because… well, dudes are dumb that
way. Seriously, the entire confrontation could have been avoid with them just
saying “Superman, we have this thing, do you know what it is?” But no, fighting
must ensue. The fighting ends when Batman calls out Superman’s secret ID and
the three heroes do what they should have done from the start, and exchange
info. We then jump to a hellish world known as Apokolips, where an ugly as sin
man named Desaad asks his master, Darkseid (pronounced Dark side) to move up
their invasion time table given the Heroes finding the “Mother Boxes.” Darkseid
agrees.
Around the same time Victor Stone
arrives at S.T.A.R. Labs. He’s furious at this father for missing his Football
game, implied to be for the umpteenth time. Dr. Stone is angry that Victor 1. Interrupts
his research with the Mother Box, and 2. Insinuates he wants to go to College
on a football scholarship. Their argument is kind of a bizarre twist on the
pro-sports pro-school father son argument, where Victor wants his father to
appreciate his sports achievement, and Dr. Stone stresses how foolish it is to
focus on Sports with guys like the Flash and Superman zooming around. Which is is a rather callous, but sound argument. Victor
grabs the Mother Box from its containment, in his anger trying to comprehend
how his dad could be more focused on a creepy Box than his own son, right as
the invasion starts. The energy wave from the box activating horribly burns and
disfigures Victor as thousands of the monster from earlier, Parademons, come
spewing out.The Mother Boxes had been placed in every major city. So yeah, that's a lot of Parademons spread out across a huge area.
Victor is just barely saved thanks
to his Dad’s technological intervention and, oddly enough, the residual
chemical spill from the Mother Box activation. After this, it’s the team up of
Superman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Batman, Shazam, and the still
assembling Cyborg verses Darkseid and his army. It’s going to be messy, to say
the least. That’s all you’re getting from me in terms of summary, go check it
out lads and lasses.
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| Do I look where the eyes are or where they should be? |
The stakes are pretty awesome too.
Darkseid is an immensely powerful monster, he is merciless, cruel, and sadistic.
Superman has fought him to a standstill a few times, but when it comes down to
it he’d definitely need back up to make the dark god back down. I also really
like the New Fifty Two costume redesigns. Besides Wonder Woman’s, but I’ll get
to that in a minute. Rather than just being bright Green or Bright Red for GL
and Flash, there’s a splash of yellow or neon to make the costumes a little
brighter. I especially like Cyborg as his body develops. When he begins, his
robotic form is choppy, blocky and constantly reshaping. The bit of Apokolyptic
tech that is still running grabs any and all machinery that could help Cyborg
in battle.
The bad is minor. I felt that the
real tiny subplot of Superman and Wonder Woman starting a romantic relationship
is…really, really forced. Maybe it’s because I’ve always been a fan of the
Superman and Lois Lane pairing, maybe it’s because literally nothing I’ve seen
before the New Fifty Two had even the smallest hit of attraction between Supes
and WW, or it could be because the movies dialogue between the two reads like
god awful Fan Fiction, but regardless, not a fan. On Wonder Woman, while I
found her to be pretty hilarious by herself, her costume is still pretty ridiculous.
Reminiscent of Captain Marvel (Danvers) old costume, it’s a one piece swimsuit
with gloves and thigh high boots. A warrior wouldn’t wear this, it leaves the
pretty important arteries in the thigh and shoulder exposed. Stop trying to
make us think a lady warrior would wear something like that. Also, it’s a
little rushed. We’ve got a lot of characters to cover, a lot of plot to build,
and we’re doing it in just over an hour. Why? We could totally have let this
spill into an hour and a half or two hours, it would have been doable. So why
the heck not? I don’t know.
Overall, I’d give this movie an A
-, it’s good, very good but has a few things holding it back. If it’d just been
a little longer, and possibly dropped the super being starting romance, it
could have been an A or better. I’d defiantly suggest it for anyone that was
wondering what could get these seven heroes together. Also, I will say that the
biggest focus is on Cyborg going from man to machine. It’s not a bad thing, but
it’s a noticeable focus. The new guy gets the most focus… I’m okay with that. Next
time, I’ll be covering this movie’s central antagonist, Darkseid.
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| It's a good group. |
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