Justice League: Doom (2012)

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• Manu G

  
  The end of justice. Pretty good animated movie. I really enjoyed it and I think the voices were really good choices and well edited. Keep them coming! When Batman and the rest of the Justice League stop The Royal Flush Gang from a robbery, they find out with the help of Cyborg that… More
  The end of justice. Pretty good animated movie. I really enjoyed it and I think the voices were really good choices and well edited. Keep them coming! When Batman and the rest of the Justice League stop The Royal Flush Gang from a robbery, they find out with the help of Cyborg that the Gang has been using a technology to walk through walls, and upon interrogation, realize that its not the Gang's technology. While Cyborg starts investigating behind the technology, Batman retreats to the Batcave. Once Batman reaches there, he is forced by Alfred to rest. Once the cave is empty, Mirror Master (who had been hiding in the Batmobile) uses a LexCorp technology to hack into the Batcomputer and downloads crucial information on orders of an unknown boss. Bane goes to the Slaughter Swamp outside Gotham City where he runs into Star Sapphire, Metallo, Ma'alefa'ak and Cheetah. The group then enter the Hall of Doom, where the are welcomed by Vandal Savage, who is also accompanied by Mirror Master. Already given $10 million each to attend the meeting, Vandal Savage offers them $100 million each for killing off each member of Justice League, to which, every one accepts. He then gives them fool-proof plans on how to defeat each member. Bruce Wayne receives news from Alfred that the bodies of Thomas and Martha Wayne have been stolen. When Bruce confronts the employee who reported the incident, the employee reveals himself as Bane, and knocks-off Bruce into an empty grave. Bruce Wayne wakes up next to his father's grave, and forces his way out of the grave. In his human form, Martian Manhunter celebrates his birthday with his friends when he receives a drink from an unknown woman. She later turns out to be Ma'alefa'ak, who had poisoned the drink, which would force Martian Manhunter to reveal his true form in front of everyone as well as be flammable. Ma'alefa'ak burns Martian Manhunter, and leaves him burning. Cheetah poisons Wonder Woman with a serum which would show any person near the latter as the former. Intending on never giving up a fight, Wonder Woman also causes damage to Cyborg who eventually cures her. Barry Allen finds out about a train robbery in progress by Mirror Master. He confronts him in his Flash atire, but is tricked into having a bomb attached to his wrist, which would go off if he tries to remove it, do nothing for 50 seconds or decelerate. This leaves Flash with no choice but to keep running at his fastest speed. Green Lantern is called upon by the FBI, and is asked to capture a group terrorists, who are hiding in a salt cave, and have kidnapped 6 hostages. After defeating them all and saving the hostages, Green Lantern confronts the boss, who kills Carol Ferris (who later turns out to be someone that looked like the real Carol) before Lantern could do anything. Grieving over how he had caused Carol only pain, Hal resigns his Green Lantern persona. It turns out this was all a plot by Star Sapphire to cause Hal to doubt himself and cast fear in his heart. The whole plan was formulated by fooling Green Lantern with fear toxin, derived from Scarecrow's formula. It also turns out that the terrorists and the Carol look-a-like were all androids in order to fool Green Lantern. Clark Kent receives a call from Lois Lane, who informs him that Henry Ackerson, a former Daily Planet employee who was laid off, was about to commit suicide. When Clark, in his Superman attire, approaches Henry, the latter reveals himself as Metallo, and shoots the former with a Kryptonion bullet, leaving Superman fatally wounded. Assuming all members of the Justice League are defeated, Savage reveals his plans to kill off half of the human population with the help of a solar flare, and start over the world. As an offer to join him, Savage offers each of the members of the Legion of Doom a territory of the world, which they all accept. Once Batman is back, he finds out that all of the members of the Justice League are under attack by the plans he himself had created, and one by one saves them all, and tells them about what had happened. The Justice League confronts the Legion of Doom, overpowering everyone including Savage, but are not able to prevent the solar flare. Cyborg deduces that the Hall of Doom would survive the Flare, and the Justice League works on preventing the Earth from any damage through it. In a meeting, Superman announces that Vandal Savage has been imprisoned for life without parole. He also announces the inclusion of Cyborg as a member of the Justice League. He then announces a vote on Batman leaving or staying in the Justice League. Allowed to speak in his defense, Batman shows no regret over his motives and decides to leave the Justice League himself. Realizing that Batman is right, Superman gives Batman a Kryptonite bullet which the latter could use if Superman goes rogue as Batman leaves.

• George F

  
  another solid installment in the DC Animated Universe. it's yet another take that does "justice" (heh, see what I did there) to it's source material. it's also without question the most action-packed work yet. good stuff.

• Jason V

  
  Nearly wall to wall action with a much more logical and calm story than most of the DCAU , JL:D resurrects the Legion of Doom with a fresh set of villains. Sure, everything happens a bit too easily, but the plan itself on the part of the Legion is quite brilliant, all things… More
  Nearly wall to wall action with a much more logical and calm story than most of the DCAU , JL:D resurrects the Legion of Doom with a fresh set of villains. Sure, everything happens a bit too easily, but the plan itself on the part of the Legion is quite brilliant, all things considered. Nathan Fillion's Green Lantern gets slightly more screen time than the other heroes-perhaps owing to his name recognition-but each hero gets their own time to shine. This is a true comic brought to life. Engaging and thrilling, the only piece which needs more beef is the characterizations for the villains. But even that can be rationalized by saying "they're evil...that's all you need to know."

• Sean S

  
  DC animated can do no wrong. Kind of like they are modeling their animation department after Batman.

• RJ M

  
  As a kid, "Challenge Of The Superfriends" was always one of my favorite cartoons on Saturday mornings. All the superheroes and supervillains squaring off week after week was something to look forward to. True to current Hollywood form, the Superfriends have gotten a reboot… More
  As a kid, "Challenge Of The Superfriends" was always one of my favorite cartoons on Saturday mornings. All the superheroes and supervillains squaring off week after week was something to look forward to. True to current Hollywood form, the Superfriends have gotten a reboot with this newest entry in the DC Animated universe. Unfortunately, like a lot of reboots and re-imaginings, the end result leaves something to be desired. Master villain Vandal Savage recruits several super villains to take out the respectives nemses, all to serve his own master plan of wiping out half the world's population, and establishing his newly formed Legion Of Doom as rulers of what is left of humanity. Not a bad story, but the problem with it is that there is so much story to tell with all the various characters that it all feels extremely truncated. Things happen way to fast with very little explanation. Nothing feels fleshed out, and the whole affair feels very hurried. However it's that lack of exposition is the thing that makes this movie virtually wall to wall action. So anyone that is simply expecting to see the heroes go toe to toe with the villains will not be disappointed. The actors are uniformly good, which is no surprise. Kevin Conroy and Tim Daly have been providing the voices for Batman and Superman fo more than a decade. Their performances are effortless. Smallville veteran Michael Rosenbaum gets the laughs as Flash, and Nathan Fillion gets the lion's share of the dramatic work for his turn as Green Lantern. However, in the past, the DC Animated movies have almost always been able to find a great balance of action and story, never more than in last year's All-Star Superman. Like this movie, that one told and epic, multi-arc storyline, filled with action. But unlike that film, this movie struggles with it's story, while solidly delivering on the action. Not a bad animated film by any means, but a disappointing step down from the heights that DC had reached in their previous films.