Justice League War

I had just watched last night DC Comics’ 18th animated film:  Justice League War directed by Jay Oliva and scripted by Heath Corson. The film is an adaptation of Justice League Origin by Geoff Johns, Jim Lee and Scott Williams which covers Justice League #1-10, I believe. This was a time in which there was no Justice League, none of them knew each other and it was as Silas Stone said: a dawn of a new age. 

I found the movie to be very enjoyable. I kinda missed Kevin Conroy doing Batman though. It really doesn’t sound the same if it isn’t his stern, gruff voice doing Batman although Jason O’Mara did do a pretty decent job at it. Comic relief provided by Green Lantern was spot on and they were able to replicate the dynamic (or lack of) between Bats and GL as it was portrayed in the books. I was surprised that they chose to remove Aquaman from the movie and replaced him with Shazam instead, making him more a Cyborg sidekick, so to speak in this iteration. The lack of Arthur and the change in Wonder Woman’s costume was probably the most notable difference of the movie from the comic. Oh and the fact that it was Shazam who gave the name “Super 7” in the end, as opposed to Flash in the comic. 

The fight scenes were pretty awesome as well with Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Flash, Cyborg and Shazam putting up an awesome fight against Darkseid although I did feel that the lack of Supes/Bats during most of the fights. Shame that they only came in during the final moments after Darkseid was already weakened to finish things off. (Spoiler!*) Props though to the Flash for the awesome way he disabled Darkseid’s left eye. Pretty awesome scene there where he lunged in with a crowbar, driving that thing down the eye plus the assist from Shazam’s lightning bolt. 

All in all, an enjoyable watch and one that I would recommend for every DC fan. I hope that they release a follow up movie which would tackle the second Justice League arc from the New 52 which is the invasion of Atlantis! In the meantime, I look forward to watching their next upcoming feature, The Son of Batman.