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Justice League Dark - My View


First thing first. JL Dark is far better by many miles when compared to the last animation film "The Killing Joke" from DC world.

The plot starts with law abiding citizens attacking fellow humans claiming they appeared to be demons in their eyes. The JL investigates and can't find any clue. This leads Batman to go for dark art experts. The rest of the story is who the Dark Arts heroes are and how they are forming a team, were they able to stop this madness and save the world.

From the DC animation world, we have seen only a few movies which concentrate on other heroes apart from Batsy, Supes or Wonder Girl. This movie falls on the list of few kind. The JL Dark team in this movie is of Constantine, Zatanna, Deadman and Etrigan, of course, Batsy can be considered as a tag along. All the team members have their own set of special magic or dark arts skills which make them enter into this special league. Do watch out for two more heroes in the movies who may not be part of the direct team but are heroes and belong to the same league in their own ways.



When it comes to the animation apart from one scene, in no other areas it was disturbing. But that one part was so terrible and visible that Supes looked like a real joke and mediocre output. However, it is just one scene but the remaining time the animation is so smooth and top quality that we are drawn into the story world from the first instance. The person who drew Constantine and gave voice should be lauded. Constantine is a  difficult character to bring live because of its complex character and jerkass like attitude. But that is the trademark of Constantine and the team has succeeded in bringing it live without any flaws. A real treat to see Constantine as Constantine on the screen. We are also treated to the backstory of Etrigan and the curse break along with Deadman's story.  The real surprise package is Swamp Thing. He does the GoT Hodor in this movie and is a love at first sight for us. So good, we keep thinking that his part could have had more screen presence. Zatanna has a good role but not as good as the others. She looks stunning and ensures to get her presence noticed both by her characterisation and popping at all important times in the movie. In spite of a longer screen presence, the real magic of Zatanna is missing. She is supposed to be a young mind with lots of fun around which is missing. If the creators had given more screen space for Swamp Thing and strong story for Zatanna this would have been a  perfect output all along.

The odd man out in this team is Batsy.  Infact, I really wonder why Batsy his seen in the team as the original JL Dark team is without Batsy. However, I believe maybe due to the market factor and reach of Batman, he is added in all movies so that they can reach a wider audience. Still, they have not forced any scenes for Batsy and he just plays a character all along by undermining his presence. The team should be lauded for this approach if not it might have ended as a Batman movie than a JL Dark one.


DC has got redemption by doing this movie for the sin they did with The Killing Joke. This one has a strong plot with good animation, characters to back up and backstory of characters to go back and root touch with them or know of them. However, the real success of this movie is staying true to the original characters from the comics and presenting them perfectly with a different plot and premise from its predecessors. This aspect makes Justice League Dark a special must watch movie from the DC animation series. Go for it
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