Movie Review Monday: Justice League - Flashpoint Paradox
Welcome to another edition of Movie Review Monday!
This week's film is the 2013 animated film, Justice League - The Flashpoint Paradox.
I love this movie. I watched it for the first time with my brother a little while back, and revisited it recently since it is now available on Netflix.
The plot follows Barry Allen (The Flash) as awakes in an unfamiliar world, ravaged by war, and where he is no longer the beloved Scarlet Speedster. He eventually discovers that something happened to alter the timeline, and he has to work together with these very different versions of superheroes from his world to get back to his own reality.
This is not a great movie for kids. It is rated an appropriate PG-13, since there is visceral violence, dark themes, and the story may be a little too much for a child. This isn't to say it is bad however. It is a really great story and overall movie. There are emotional moments, intense action sequences, and intriguing changes to the stories we all know about the members of the Justice League.
The animation in the movie is also well done from what I can tell. Watching it over again, I can notice some sequences of obvious CGI, but they're brief and don't take away from the overall experience. The entire package of this movie is fun to watch, and sets up a cool world that just begs to be explored (and you can in Flashpoint comics that were released). DC strikes gold again with this movie, and continues their positive streak of animated films.
Go check out Justice League - The Flashpoint Paradox, streaming right now, on Netflix.