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Justice League - The New Frontier (Single-Disc Edition) |
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Justice League - The New Frontier (Single-Disc Edition)
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by Warner Home Video
Sales Rank: 11111
Price: $10.99
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Saving Humanity for the Very First Time! Based on Darwyn Cooke's award-winning graphic novel, this thrilling adventure reveals the origin of the Justice League. With Cold War paranoia putting Superman, Batman, and Wonder Woman under government suspicion, only the gravest threat imaginable can force these heroes - along with an army of newcomers including The Flash, Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter - to unite in a spectacular showdown to save the world.
Viewer Reviews
If you are a fan of any of the overall superbly done "animated" series of the DC universe; Justice League, Justice League Unlimited, as well as the Batman and Superman animated series, you may be very disappointed in this fare...which is a sub standard adaptation.
As a previous reviewer P. Soliman so aptly put it, this should have been titled; "The New Green Lantern & The Flash movie" NOT "Justice League"
I would go even further and suggest that the overall story and concepts are so overly derivative and contrived the word "New" should not appear anywhere near the title.
The attempts at a 'retro' JLA almost works at best. If you are any sort of a DC universe fan, this is exactly the sort of movie one really, really wants to like...but they give us so little to work with. The story line is very uneven and sloppy. The story plods along and then aggravatingly falls apart just when starts to be -or could- be interesting.
Again and again, potentially interesting character and plot developments are glossed over and merely presented as if to fulfill some check mark on a list of obligatory and formulaic story devices. Even then, nothing is really explored let alone utilized to carry the story forward.
The result is the story and its pace (and dialog) often comes off as wooden and contrived. Many of the Silver Age characters appear to be thrown in simply to be seen...check! The big fight scene finale is so poorly paced it would be laughable if it were not such a depressing waste.
This is the sort of movie that had every thing needed to be a great movie, but the producers could not decide on what they wanted to do with it, or where they wanted to go with. So...they threw in everything that they could possibly work in and manage to accomplish 'much ado about nothing'.
Despite some people's glowing reviews, ask yourself; why was this released as a 'direct to DVD' production only? If it appeals to you, great...it does have its moments. I would strongly recommend anyone who thinks that they may be interested in this JL adaptation to rent it first, before buying it...or wait-it won't be long before this is in the huge 'discount bargain bin' at a Wal-Mart near you.
If you want retro that has the quaint and corny charm, watching the old Filmation series of the JLA will do a much better job-they didn't try so hard to do so much in so little time.
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