Justice League: Warworld

DC Fever Dream

This has the blueprints for a good movie. They laid the right bricks, but used Gorilla Glue for the mortar. They may have also forgot to use insulation along the way. The entire movie felt like someone just had a fever dream and decided to write a DC movie about it. I think Jafar made an appearance at some point, I’m not entirely sure.

The beginning of the movie had terrible pacing. They spend too long on the first half of the movie and way to little time on the second half of the movie. There were no setups, no expositions, nothing was really explained.

The structure was mind boggling in a good way. The plot structure feels vaguely familiar but I can’t put my finger on it. The point of the movie was to not understand what’s going on until half way through so you get the same experience as the characters, which I throughly enjoy and respect, but they failed to catch you up after the twist is revealed. What seems to be important plot points come out of nowhere left and right and it becomes confusing and irritating.

The only comedy is derived from Lobo interactions. The characters were very true to the originals. This is one of the truest Boy Scout Supermans (Supermen?) I’ve seen. Mongul heavily lacks character motivation making his actions seem meaningless.

Overall, this could be a difference direction for DC animated movies. This can be the set up to something great, but alone, this isn’t a good movie, despite how much I wanted it to be. I only recommend this movie if you plan on keeping up with the DC Tomorrowverse, because the ending seems pivotal.