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Did anyone else find the action scenes to be a bit... boring?


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This has some of the cleanest, slickest animation of any WB/DC based DVD - designs were originally from Crisis on 2 Earths with some streamlining & color tweaking (and would be used again for Young Justice) - and yet the fight scenes felt incredibly flat.

First, we have the Justice League Vs. Royal Flush gang fight in the opener. Batman pulls a Leeroy Jenkins, goes in without the League and nearly gets killed. Wonder Woman and Green Lantern chase down two members and subdue them with relative ease. Flash does his phase trick on Jack. Superman toys around with Ten, letting Ten hit him with a table and then letting Ten break his own fists hitting him repeatedly before ripping him apart. Martian Manhunter is the only other member besides Batman to get hurt by King, who is then taken out by Cyborg. Despite newer animation this opener doesn't feel anywhere near as intense as the Justice League Vs. Royal Flush Gang fight featured in the Wild Card episode from the DCAU Justice League season 2, which was made about 10 years earlier.

Then we have the Justice League Vs. Vandal Savage's Quasi-Legion Of Doom, and before that we had Bane ambushing Bruce Wayne/Batman on his home turf, smacking him around a bit & then burying him alive with his folks corpses. In the finale we have the inevitable Batman/Bane rematch which, as usual, ends with Batman yanking the venom pump out of Bane's head, just like he did in his early 90s solo series as well as 2009's "Public Enemies" (in which Bane got a cameo). Superman fights Metallo, as usual, something we'd seen before in Superman's solo series and also "Public Enemies", and this particular Superman/Metallo throw down didn't feel anywhere near as intense as the "Public Enemies" brawl or even his solo series battles - the only uniqueness to this one being that Metallo seemingly kneed Superman in the groin before Superman got pissed enough to just blast Metallo's head off. Green Lantern facing off with Star Sapphire didn't pack anywhere near as much wallop, visually, physically or emotionally, as their fight on Batman: The Brave & the Bold (a series that more often than not went for comedy than drama), Flash taking on the various Mirror Master clones seemed to be running on empty, Cyborg trifling with Vandal Savage wasn't much to write home about, and Martian Manhunter's shape shifting wrestling match with his evil brother felt strangely lethargic.

Only Wonder Woman's fights with Cheetah had any real force and impact, while most of the feature's other big set pieces felt very by the numbers as if the story board artists were just going through the motions, a feeling that sadly permeates the film that ended up being the last effort from Dwayne McDuffie (RIP).

What say you?

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i feel that this production is a little overrated at 7.4. watching the jla get taken apart was really gripping, but once they escaped i felt the production fell a bit flat after that. the fights were rather uninspiring, and do not compare to say, the final showdown between superman, supergirl and darkseid in "apocalypse".

before we get started, does anyone want to get out?

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