a5c7b9f00b Justice League Dark is what it sounds like. It&#39;s the dark side of justice. A group of supernatural heroes who band together loosely to take on occult threats, supernatural threats - threats that the real Justice League may be powerless against. Beings with supernatural powers join together to fight against supernatural villains. This team of supernatural beings include John Constantine, Zatanna and Jason Blood also knownthe demon Etrigan. I don&#39;t even know why I gave the DC animated universe another chance. The new 52 movies have mostly been fail and I&#39;m sad to report that this is no different. This isn&#39;t even a Justice League movie. They literally make a cameo. This SHOULD have been called Constantine but DC knows that only Constantine fans would have gave a sh!t if they did that; so they called it Justice League Dark and had Batman literally stand around watching while Constantine did his little magical dog and pony show for over an hour. The biggest problem with this film is that the story/plot seems like filler, almostif they needed to throw in something to kill the time in between origin stories. Basically this is the plot: John Constantine needs help with something and visits someone who hates him. That said person refuses to help him but for whatever reason tells us their origin story and then reluctantly helps Constantine. That is pretty much the plot of the film… times four. And I&#39;m guessing they gave the film an R-rating because Deadpool did that and it is the new cool thing to do now.. even if this film hardly deserves a PG-13 rating if they take away one bloodless suicide scene in the beginning of the film. I must have check how much time is left in the film about three times, and this film isn&#39;t even an hour and twenty minutes long. Oh, and if you randomly set a tree on fire SwampThing will come out of nowhere and tries to kill you.. brilliant. <br/><br/>The animated DC universe used to be somewhere we could run to when the live action DC films let us down. And with early reports calling Wonder Woman a gigantic heap of garbage, we need a solid animated DC universe more than ever. Or we can just do what Marvel fans did with Spider-man and force a hard reboot by boycotting Wonder Woman and sending a message to the chumps running DC. Plus we already know DC&#39;s game plan. Wonder Woman is going to su@k and a month later they are going to release an &quot;extended edition&quot; and promise us it is better and hope we are dumb enough to bite. I put up this disclaimer before reviewing anything related to comic books and that is, I am not a very avid comic book reader because of it&#39;s unavailability here. I keep myself at pace via websites and I am certainly up to date regarding the DC animated movies. Believe it or not, but I&#39;ve watched all of them.<br/><br/>SCREENPLAY - The story and the dialogues are very 50/50 but thank you DC, for making it R-rated. The banter is pretty good. Especially Deadman and Batman. They have the best punch-lines and Batman&#39;s &quot;hmmm&quot; always cracked me up. Without going too much into detail, a part of the movie felt a tad bit like Kingsman. If it&#39;s a reference to the comics, which the readers can point out, then it&#39;s cool but to me, it felt a bit clichéd. The expository stuff was surprisingly kept at a minimum. There was some of it of course but, I&#39;ve seen in the other animated movies where everything just comes to a halt and some character is just hurling exposition. The callbacks between Zatana and Constantine sometimes felt over-used. I have watched the T.V. Show of Constantine, so I know what happened in Newcastle but they were ranting about things that happened all over the world. I mean, maybe it&#39;s entertaining for the comic-book readers but from a writer&#39;s point of view, using the same trope too many times reduces it&#39;s effect. <br/><br/>ART-DIRECTION - Let me get rid of the gripes I had about the animation. First of all at around 17 minutes into the movie, Deadman is opaque and transparent even when he hasn&#39;t been made visible by Constantine. Second, sometimes the expressions of the characters didn&#39;t change with the dialogue. I know it is nitpicking but you&#39;ll begin to notice after some time. If that would happen to a live actor, I would call it a wooden performance. Now, the pros. The action sequences were amazing. Especially the second last fight. That really got me pumped up. Earlier there used to be a lot of cut- away&#39;s during a fight sequence. The difference here was that each individual fight was done for a longer time before interjecting it with a scene. That increased the intensity of the fights by a notch.<br/><br/>VOICE-ACTING - There were a lot of known actors and actresses doing the voices like, Rosario DawsonWonder Woman, Alfred MolinaDestiny and of course Matt RyanConstantine. It&#39;s so sad that his show got cancelled. It was the only DC character I was invested in, especially due to his performance. Nicholas Torturro was amazingBoston Brand. I know people will be hypothetically punching me for saying this, but he felt like the Deadpool of the lot. All the others were greatwell, no complaints in the voice-acting department.<br/><br/>FINAL VERDICT - At one point I was thinking that what is Batman doing in the middle of all this magic and hocus-pocus. Just then all these magical elements started to deconstruct his character and I was like,&quot;Oh! That&#39;s why he is there&quot;. It is quite rightfully rated R because there is a lot of violence, but personally, I wanted a little bit more. Maybe I am sadistic but if you agree then give me some assurance that I am notsadisticI think I am. Do give this one a watch. I am sure DC fans will, but if you&#39;re a fan of animated movies, I am sure this one won&#39;t disappoint.
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