Justice League War (2014)

   

    Justice League War is the latest entry into the DC Animated Movie Line. What's this animated movie series you ask? Well they are a long standing series of straight to DVD / Blu Ray animated movie set in the DC universe made by a variety of comic books talents from the DC's most successful branches. While on a large scale their only movie success has been the live action Batman movies they have had major small scale success with these lower budget comic book story driven movies. It started back in 2007 with Superman Doomsday a simplified version of the uber- popular  The Death of Superman comic arc from the early 90's.

    The idea here was to take the widely known series, shave off any excess characters and focus on putting the core conflict into motion. I consider this movie one of the better in the series, good action great writing, but most importantly a good adaptation of well known series; it didn't encompass every detail that hardcore fans may have wanted to see but it that didn't make it any less fun or exciting.

                      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DC_Universe_Animated_Original_Movies is where you can find a full list of all the titles (21 including 2 coming later this year) and if you want my top three The Flashpoint Paradox , The Dark Knight Returns Part 1 and 2, annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd.......


    .....Justice League War!

    If you don't keep up with comic books (and I don't blame you) a while back the DC universe was reset into 52 new lines of comics called the new 52. It's been a successful en devour for them, allowing new writers to give their own twists on classic characters. Chief among these new books was Geoff Johns' Justice League Origins a new take on the crisis that brought together the original members of the Justice League (now including Cyborg and Shazam). The comic is fantastic, a must read for DC fans new and old. How's the movie? Well it's also very good! Like my list showed before it's my third favorite of these movies, and for good reason. Creative direction of this movie was given to the team who brought success to the comic, and even though it's much shorter it brings to light all the good things about Johns' book ; the dialogue especially considering what the movie is about. Bringing these characters together is a difficult task but this movie makes it look easy, it's pretty light on back story and assumes you know who all the characters are going in but once it gives them brief introductions it slams into play bringing forth beautiful art of great action and cool settings. Some of the story feels kinda brushed past and the villain really isn't explained well for non comic fans but I can guarantee you will enjoy this flick.

    The thing that I enjoyed most about this movie is how it plays the character's personality's off each other so well, I cannot imagine a live action Justice League movie turning out this well (and it won't) and I look forward to the future of DC's well animated library of short delves into some of my favorite characters.