Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths (Parts 1, 2 & 3) (2024)

The last 15 minutes dragged a bit, but I have no other complaints. I was very skeptical of them attempting Crisis without Kevin Conroy. I can't say that the project was a success without him. I can just say Part One was solid anyways.

I feel like the Tomorrowverse is shoddy as hell. Kudos to Jim Krieg for making it all look like some tightly planned arc in hindsight. I know it wasn't. But I love whenever a project can suggest "I meant to do that" after the fact. Believe it or not, it's not super hard, especially since the Tomorrowverse's stories were pretty varied and lent themselves to that kind of ambiguity and connecting of the dots. I mention it's not hard, which is why it's weird it rarely happens, or at least rarely happens successfully.

If Matt Ryan IS Constantine as the Pariah, he isn't credited in the end credits as such. Of course he hasn't been revealed as that yet, so maybe just as well. But they aren't really fooling us, are they?

I love the versions of Amazo where he's innocent. I really dug that aspect of the movie.

Felt like a good stopping place, which frankly, I wasn't happy with. I was kind of hoping each part would be the crazy-making genre television mega-cliffhanger blackout you see on shows like Lost and Breaking Bad. I like that the movie was bananas and crazymaking. My problem is it probably could have been MORE of both of those things.

In Memory of George Perez. Nice! They better dedicate one of the next parts to Kevin Conroy.

Part One off to a good start. 4 1/2 stars.

I liked it. Probably not as much as the first part, but keep in mind the first part has a different dynamic than this one will, and the next part will have a different dynamic than them both. The first part is the beginning. The next part is the ending. This part is an awkward middle child, starting with a half-hour of back-and-forths between quiet scenes of Kara on Monitor's ship, and Psycho-Pirate relating his life story to Dr. Fate. It is by design less satisfying than the last part and the next. It has no beginning and it has no ending. And it's a little hard to judge it fairly because of that. What I will do is not judge it harshly. Not take out my frustrations with the cliffhanger on the movie itself. Maybe I should. But I won't.

I was kind of hoping for more explicit Multiverse cameos, but Will Friedle as Batman Beyond and Matt Ryan being revealed as John Constantine are still pretty big gets. Still furious over how dirty DC did John on Legends Of Tomorrow. Hopefully the next part will give Matt Ryan a more satisfying final performance to go out on.

Not loving that Amazon world. It struck me as fascist and genocidal fascism at that.

Speaking of which, I love Psycho-Pirate calmly, and in a rational tone of voice saying he loves Nazis. The brainwashing is already done, you see. That guy has a great and creepy voice, and they hired an actor I don't know to do it. I love whenever a project gets an A-grade performance out of a scale actor, She-Ra And The Princesses Of Power was famous for having better and more believably dramatic performances from the lower paid Canadian actors than just about any American animated drama ensemble cast you can think of. I love when that stuff works out. The last Legion Of Super Heroes movie has an amazingly cast Brainiac I had never heard of too.

I love that the tone is not too vulgar or too violent. It doesn't draw attention to itself the way other adult DC projects invariably do. I'm sort of sitting back riveted instead, which is the proper reaction they want to wring out of me.

I very much thought it was a great connector between the first and last parts. The last part has a lot to live up to. 4 1/2 stars. removed link

Part Three Sneak Peek:

It's of a scene of the Justice League fighting dinosaurs, because Jim Krieg knows what the people want to see. 4 stars.

I liked it, though I was not expecting a complete rewrite of the story.  This (part 1, at least) is more Crisis by way of Flashpoint than it is related to the original Crisis.  That said, with Harbinger now being Supergirl I have to wonder if we'll get the famous shot of Superman cradling her body.  It's Crisis, we have to get that, right?...

AYA?!?!?!?!?!?...

So I'm furious. Aren't you?

I've given Jim Krieg a LOT of leeway in the past. But this is unacceptable.

I get the logic of Wolfman and Perez streamlining the Multiverse back in the 1980's. I do. Krieg using the occasion to visibly destroy every single animated continuity we've ever cared about now is different. It's out of bounds. It lands differently.

DC Comics have made every effort in recent years to embrace the Multiverse and different continuities. And this? Is bullshit.

So basically Marvel saw that everybody loved X-Men: The Animated Series. So they revived it to great acclaim. People showed similar interest in animated DC revivals. And DC destroys all those shows instead. Do you kind of get why I think DC sucks at this and why James Gunn's tenure as the head of it is gonna be a total drag?

Jesus Christ can the late Kevin Conroy not be given a break? Yeah, he gets one final hero moment. While his entire fucking Universe is destroyed! Jesus, DC is bad at this. I don't find the tribute card to him touching. The fact that the movie took a dump on everything he ever did makes me not find it remotely sincere.

The movie and the Tomorrowverse also can't keep its stories straight. It suggests the Tuckerverse existed at a point BEFORE the Multiverse, when in reality that continuity crossed over with Teen Titans and Teen Titans Go!. DC can't even keep its own continuity straight, so I feel perfectly acceptable in ignoring this piece of shit.

Also, I think I have a right to point out that DC animated movies, and the Lukic ones in particular, have shitty timing and boarding. The scene in the bar on War World goes on for fucking ever and there is a ton of silence and pauses, and yet not a shred of dramatic tension for even a second. It's so incompetently boarded and directed I'm embarrassed it got sent out like this. The writers and directors of these movies are not just shitty storytellers. They are shitty filmmakers.

Every time DC has a good thing going, they ruin it. That's their entire brand. And it's not like this film is a jumping off point for a new continuity for audiences to follow. They basically killed off our beloved iterations for no narrative benefit whatsoever.

I'm sick of this shit. I'm sick of having to complain about obvious shit like "Don't kill off Kevin Conroy's Batman" and DC does it TWICE right before he dies. My God, this company is a total fucking trainwreck. I have nothing good left to say about it. DC believes every last good thing is ever did deserved to be destroyed for no damn reason. I'm furious and sick of this shit. 0.