Justice League (2001–2004)
Laughably bad animation and major story misteps ruin this adaptation
28 February 2006
Justice League is guilty of criminally "kiddy-fying" an extremely average comic to start with, and thus losing everything that made the comic even remotely readable.

This should be obvious by the cover alone, on which we the entire gang lined up and drawn poorly. From there, things just get worse.

Batman came off as both an amazing leader and something of a self righteous jerk in DC comics, but in this movie all those things are glossed over, and he's just some Styrofoam, one dimensional character who's a pale shadow of what he should be and nothing else.

Superman is as dull here as he is in everything else. So, I guess that stayed the same.

The plot appears to be a mish mash of random tiny bits a pieces from the comics and made up ideas, none of which comes together cohesively.

But my main gripe is this: THE ANIMATION QUALITY IS TERRIBLE. The character designs look worse than most other Saturday morning cartoons. And the animation is incredibly childish. I don't know if I've seen a cartoon in the last 10 years where the animation lacked so much realism, especially in the poorly detailed characters.

So basically, these "movies" were extremely silly although probably faithful to its kiddy-friendly source material, painfully geared for a younger audience, and just down right looks low quality in terms of animation.
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