Justice League: Crisis On Two Earth’s: Review

DC has done it again! “Justice League: Crisis On Two Earth’s” is one of their best offerings to date, if not THE best. That’s saying something because they’ve been on a roll since the premiere of the JL series several years ago. Then they stepped it up a bit with “Unlimited”, which is still one of the better examples of American animation, not to mention one of my personal faves. WHY THE HELL DID THEY CANCEL IT??!!! Sorry, had to get that out, anyway, “Crisis” picks up in the interim between Justice League and JLU, as the League is setting up the Watchtower (are they Jehovah’s witnesses?) from Batman’s legendarily deep pockets when Lex Luthor escapes from another dimension, where he’s the good guy, to seek the help of THIS dimension’s Justice League. Hackneyed premise? Maybe. But with Dwayne McDuffie at the helm, it’s all about execution. It’s tight, no other way to say it. Apparently McDuffie is a fan of Anime as I am, because there are several DBZ-esque fights in the movie that, well, they’re just great.

I’m also glad that Andrea Romano has remained in the mix being in charge of voice casting. Her choices are inspired as usual. not the least of which being James Woods as Batman’s evil doppelganger, Owlman. Sounds weird I know, but very phat. I also liked the evil Superman’s Mobster-like voice characterization in Ultraman. All the voice acting was good, even though I was a bit apprehensive at first, being the Tim Daly/ Kevin Conroy fan that I am (Batman/Superman).

Being an avid comic reader (when I get the chance), I was never a big fan of DC, save for maybe Batman, POST Frank Miller.  But I never got into the whole “made up city” concept. Plus I never really dug how most DC heroes and villains were somebody “MAN”.  Miller ushered in a whole new era of grit and realism missing from the DC universe, one that still survives to this day, having spawned such shows as The Batman animated series (any of them since 1990), as well as its bastard wiener cousin Batman Beyond.

Long story short, I really liked this movie, I recommend it to anyone who likes good animation.  I’d like to see more of these types of  movies from DC in the future.

Now why can’t we get it together on the live action side of things DC? (Batman Begins/Dark Knight aside of course)

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