Justice League Tops Thor Big Time

I saw Justice League the other day with my son, and we both agreed. It was way better than the Thor movie that just came out. I had already described what was wrong with the Thor movie. It was slapstick comedy. Like the Three Stooges. Or Inspector Clouseau. But since when is Thor a stooge? Since never. At least not until this latest Thor movie.

But Justice League was not like that. It was serious drama. Gritty, determined drama. Which isn't to say it didn't have a lighter moment here and there. And that's fine. But turning what should be a serious movie into a slapstick comedy only ruins a movie. Like what Marvel did with Thor.

DC did not do that. It stayed serious and gritty. Particular gritty was the emergence of Superman from the grave. They explained well enough how that was possible, so okay. You can't have Superman die, so you know he has to come back. Normally I don't agree with bringing the dead back to life, but since it was Superman, well... It really would have been better if he had never died.

What was good was how they portrayed an angry Superman. If you think about it, you don't want Superman to be angry with you. And that's where Bat Man found himself. The target of Superman's anger that is. Superman's besting of Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Cyborg, and the Flash was well done, too. It would have completely ruined it for me if Wonder Woman fought Superman toe to toe. She didn't. It was clearly portrayed that she was no match for Superman. As it should have been.

As for the storyline and plot, well, okay. It centered on a Wonder Woman backstory, and somewhat crossed over into Aquaman's, but you had to have a story in there somewhere.

My main and only complaint was making the Flash into a dork. I guess the explanation was that he was in the beginning of his "superhero" career. Whatever. And making Cyborg's robotics malfunction was timely so as to justify Superman's attack on them, which was a reaction to Cyborg's malfunctioning system attacking Superman. Again, whatever.

Bottom line, what I appreciate is that the producers/writers/directors of Justice League did not make an effort to turn it into a comedy, like the movie Thor. I don't know why movie people seem to think that stories from comics have got to be comic. Not that all are that way. It's the one's that aren't are the ones worth seeing.