Justice League: Gods and Monsters (DVD)

After a summer in which Marvel's THE AVENGERS: AGE OF ULTRON and ANT-MAN we're overloaded and wildly inconsistent, it's refreshing to find this original superhero tale from director Sam Liu and Executive Producers/ Story Authors Bruce Timm and Alan Burnett to be complex, intriguing and compelling on all cinematic levels - creative, visceral, emotional, intellectual and philosophical. JUSTICE LEAGUE: GODS AND MONSTERS may give audiences the DC 'Holy Trinity' of Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman as dark, tragic, 'a hair from' anti-heros, but it in no way compromises their nature as compelling and fascinating characters. Throughout the course of the film's narrative, these new versions of our beloved heroes overcome their tragic backstories to shine through in the film's climax, delivering the thrills and inspiration inherent within their historic iconography and classic iterations.In the film's alternate universe, General Zod is Superman's biological father, and the Man of Steel was found and raised by hispanic migrant farmers. Batman's identity is scientist Kurt Langstrom, whose attempts to cure his progressive cancer with an experimental bat-serium (amped-up on micro-eccellerant particles) saved his live, but turned him into a vampire. Wonder Woman is a fallen Goddess who, after rejecting her family's betrayal and killing of the alien Darkseid and the entire population of his planet, chose self-exile on Earth. The three operate out of the Hall of Justice in Metropolis, using aggression and violence to implement the takedown of hostiles and high-risk targets for the U.S. Government. When prominent scientists begin popping up murdered, and circumstantial evidence points to the 'God-Like' Justice League, an already tense relationship between the League, U.S. Government and public grows tense and quickly collapses.With a story co-written by Bruce Timm, Alan Burnett's screenplay is stunning. It's adult writing on a structural, emotional, and intellectual level that evokes Frank Miller and Alan Moore's best work of the 1980's. The cast delivers top-notch performances across the board, with Michael C. Hall's restrained yet heartbreaking Batman/Kirk Langstrom being a unique stand-out. Kudos to director Sam Liu for simultaneously capturing the look of Bruce Timm's DC Animated TV series of the '90's and melding it so well with the kinetic adult action, violence and epic vistas of this century's greatest DC Animated Original Movies as pioneered by the great animation director Jay Oliva. As always, composer Frederik Wiedmann delivers a complex, moving score that is layered to accent both the epic and intimate.Finally, a special mention must be given to co-Executive Producer and co-Story Writer Bruce Timm. This is his return to creative production work on a DC Universe Original Movie since his supervising production duties on the DC Universe Original Movie's epic, ground-breaking, and classic BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, PART 1 and PART 2. This film at times has the feel of the 1993 Bruce Timm co-directed, Timm and Burnett co-produced, and Alan Burnett co-scripted classic motion picture BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM - THE ANIMATED MOVIE. That film is still considered, by many film critics and Batman historians, to be one of - if not the - greatest and most authentic Batman feature film ever made. Timm's return here, and re-teaming with longtime collaborator Burnett, has yielded not just the first 'Elsewhere' Justice League film, but perhaps the greatest Justice League film ever made. Here's hoping, with the outstanding achievement that is JUSTICE LEAGUE: GODS AND MONSTERS, and the upcoming 2016 adaptation of Alan Moore's "The Killing Joke" that Bruce Timm will Executive Produce, that Timm's return to the DC Animated Original Movie Universe is a permanent one.

First of all these are not the same characters from the comic books or the other shows. The only thing that remains are the alter egos. Does that make sense at all? These are new characters that use the original characters as a loose basis. So knowing that if you were hoping for the orginal members of the justice league look elsewhere, but if you can keep your mind open the you're going to get a great story with a decent plot and actual character development which you can't say of all animated comic book movies, or even all the live action ones. By far the best story belongs to this story's batman. In the normal DC universe Kirk Langstom is the man-bat, but here he's a vampire going by the Alter ego of batman. Kirk definetly gets the most development and is the most tragic figure in this tale. Michael C hall does the voice acting and I was sceptacle at first but he voices batman as very cold and distant, it's just the slightest shade of Mr. freeze from the orginal batmna animated series from the 90's and it works really well for the character. Wonder Woman also has an excellent backstory, in this she is no longer Diana Prince, her name is Bekka and is the grand daughter of the high father of genesis,DC animated knocked it out the park in in Justice League War with regards to Diana Prince Wonder Woman so the bar was very high. Where Gods and Monsters succeeded was in not only giving this Wonder Woman a tragic backstory but keeping her strength intact. Justice league war succeeded in the action but at times treated her like the fantasies of 15 year old boy instead of being a fully fleshed character. Now for superman, poor Superman, he definetly gets short changed in the story department, this super mans father is Zod, and that's about all we get. When I heard that superman in this story was found by mexican farm workers I was excited and scared at the same time. It's basically added so that he can spout a few stereo typical spanish one liners and nothing more. I don't even think we learn his real name in the movie, I had to look it up. Whereas we get to see what transformed and ultimately drives Wonder Woman and batman we never get that with superman. He mentions dealing Justice with a heavy hand because he's been on the receiving end of it but we never see that. i think they initially went into supermans story ready to tell a more detailed story but perhaps the poltical climate would have created to much controversy so the played it safe or maybe his story was cut. By rooting his origin in mexican american culture they were inviting controversy but they seem to have stopped short of actually addressing it. Over all though this movie is great and tells an interesting story. Whoever is working on the live action Wonder Woman should really be paying attention to this movie and its treatment of Wonder Woman. Another review a read mentioned game of thrones in regards to wonder woman's story and I feel it's an appropriate description. It tells a great tragic story with a powerful female character, and it feels completely appropriate in the setting of new genesis and Apokolypse. If you don't like change this movie isn't for you,but if you enjoy a good storytelling,El Superman aside, then this is a fantastic watch.

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Una pelicula excelente, el arte de Bruce Tim y una historia totalmente nueva una pieza indispensable en tu coleccion. La figura es Buena lo unico malo es que la caja se daño un poco en el envio.

.....il dvd in questione potrebbe dare dei problemi durante la fase di lettura.....un peccato considerato il fatto che la storia è bella e mostra una solida alternativa alla classica Justice League.

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Incredible way of imaginating a different version of the Justice League especially with a vampire Batman voiced by Michael C Hall aka Dexter Morgan!