Not sure which movie is more of a jumbled mess.... this or Warworld. As with the previous film, it starts without any clue as to what's happening and just continues like that for quite a bit.
From there, we get bits & pieces of explanation, and then mess. And then a bit more explaining. And then mess.
The first 30 minutes keeps this tediousness going so much that it feels like an eternity before any sense of cohesiveness comes through.
As an ending of the "Tomorrowverse", it feels completely lackluster, especially taking into account the horridness of Warworld into this movie. Plus (spoiler alert), having Constantine being Paraiah seems very cheap.
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One
2024
Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths - Part One
2024
Action / Adventure / Animation / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
Plot summary
Death is coming. Worse than death: oblivion. Not just for our Earth, but for everyone, everywhere, in every universe! Against this ultimate destruction, the mysterious Monitor has gathered the greatest team of Super Heroes ever assembled. But what can the combined might of Superman, Wonder Woman, Batman, The Flash, Green Lantern and hundreds of Super Heroes from multiple Earths even do to save all of reality from an unstoppable antimatter armageddon?!
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It's a mess.
Wow, that was it? So lame!
I haven't read Crisis on Infinite Earths. So all I know about it is this half of a movie. And it sucks.
1) The art style is weird. I seen it before in one or two DC animated movies and it's still bad. Black thick lines around the ears, No black lines around the hair... feels inconsistent and wrong.
2) The animation is cheap. Most times it's just moving layers.
3) The story! Why is this a good story? We had 17 gazillion multiverse movies last year alone. I can't blame this movie for it's subject matter and premise, but I can hate it for being sub-par to EVERY other multiverse movie I have seen. The story is stupid and convoluted. And boring. Something that could have been said in 30 minutes, it took them 1,5 hours because they keep repeating animations and dialogue. I was sick after watching the speed force circle sequence after 385 times. I lost all interest after watching 385 random sequences between Barry's time travels, just because they wanted to show the story out of order and with no initial context - it felt random. I got angry when Owlman and the other bad guys all they could think about was to "punch" the evil energy, or throw cars at it to save their world! I was dumbfounded when the monitor only asked the help of the good guys but not Lex Luthor - not only he is super smart and super rich, but he would want to survive this crisis!
So, the only thing to destroy a magical force field is to build a tower that vibrates the Earth? Stupid "enemy" and lame "solution".
The whole thing is a stupid mess and the only good things about it is that the Question doubts and questions the Monitor, and Batman steps in and they debate as a Think Tank. And how Barry managed to built the tower.
This is one of the worse DC animated projects. I don't even care about part 2. WB please make more faithful adaptations and drop this 1940's art style.
Not Crisis on Infinite Earths you know
I grew up reading DC comics, and in my heyday of collecting, was reading about 30 different titles a month. During that time, one of the biggest DC Universe changes was a limited series titled Crisis on Infinite Earths. At the time, it had been determined the DC Universe was getting too big, so they created this storyline to help them make drastic changes across multiple storylines and compartmentalize the universe.
And it was AMAZING.
It was one of my favorite story lines, and when I heard about this Crisis on Infinite Earths movie trilogy, I was excited. But I clearly shouldn't have been.
After receiving & watching the first movie, I quickly realized, this is not my CoIE. It is a crisis based in the current animated movie timeline. And even the special features segment "Crisis Primer" basically says these 10 or so movies play into the connection and lead up to Crisis.
So without knowing this, although I've seen a few of them, I have not seen all of them, so Crisis makes absolutely no sense.
At least when the CW did their "version" of Crisis, it followed the basic premise of the original Comic series. But this, other than throwing in the Anti-matter wave and the Monitor, and a few select characters, it doesn't look like Crisis at all.
I'm going to try to watch the "prequel/primer" movies and see if my opinion changes, but right now, i'm pretty disappointed.