Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One

Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One: You might think it’s kind of wild for someone to say, especially considering the present circumstances, but I’m absolutely done with the multiverse. I guess it was pleasant the first few times — I mean, I will always cherish the first time I saw the cute little pig Spiderman — but now, any time I’m watching some new superhero feature and a portal starts to appear, I can almost hear the sound of a dead horse getting battered again.

I do get why it’s necessary for DC to complete their largely boring animated “Tomorrowverse” before James Gunn turns up and Nic Cage’s head explosions everything that isn’t tied directly to his ventures, and it does at least feel like they’ve been working towards this for a while. All the same though, Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One just comes across as getting caught up with the rest in the very long queue of recent multiverse features.

But it is neither its underwhelming multiversal elements nor its title that makes Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One an epitome of present-day Hollywood woe’s. Its sloppily conceived title is also an elephant in the room. Why is this a Part 1, in a film which is direct-to-VOD? For some reason, I feel slightly unethical actually providing such a review at this time, as this is a half-finished work.

There’s some promise for something great, where there would be masses of countless different iterations of the Justice League, but when all’s said and done everybody apperas to be on some character select screen from a video game. Yes, they are all present and busy swapping pop culture catchphrases onboard an amorphous scifi space hub, but they appear to be quite idle on all accounts.

But I have crossed the end of 200 words and reaching the point where I should give my opinion concerning what is shown in Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One. There are one too many reasons why I really should engage that particular task. If truth be told, a lot was happening but I immersed myself into it.

First things first, I’m not some old guy shaking his fists at an iPhone. I’ve seen all previous works of the ‘Tomorrowverse’ series. I am also a decent fan of DC Comics so theoretically, there should be no reason I can’t understand the scope of the movie.

But, it’s just the presentation of the film that is ….. different. It manages to be both brisk and lengthy at the same time and struggles to feel like the ‘Part 1’ it is while attempting to pace through considerably large amounts of content which all is a part of a much more comprehensive storyline. The reasoning behind why this two parter cannot simply be a single two hour film is lost on me.

One of the reasons why the plot is so difficult to keep up with is related to the way it is structured, more specifically, its structure is chronological.

The Flash (portrayed by Matt Bomer) is suffering the loss of time at the hands of the League’s formation, the fight with the evil version of the League, and his first meeting with Iris West (played by Ashleigh LaThrop), his love interest.

This is such a fascinating and brave way to grow this narrative, we get to see plot points that the characters are seeing in a Jenkins’. Such abilities however come with some messiness as there are a number of concepts that are being introduced quite loosely to the viewer, and at times, this can be quite excessive.

Now, is there any one thing about Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One that is particularly well arguing that it stages the inter-dimensional drama really well? It would be the relationship between Flash and Iris that has developed throughout the film. We get to witness them age and grow as a loving couple as decades pass in a matter of minutes with the intelligent sci-fi scripting and pacing.

The way the story progresses towards the end of the film touches more than just the superheroes’ fantasy. There is a multidimensional love story that is presented in the film about a man who is ripped through time and space and this unique love story really gives a new perspective on the common onscreen conflicts which are the destruction of earth, in other words, a race against time. In my opinion, that is probably the strongest aspect of the movie.

What I am less pleased with then is how most of the earlier build up gets truncated towards the end of the film, in order to take the viewer to the abovementioned unspectacular sci-fi dome to be populated with myriad costumes in a Super Smash Bros fashion.

It’s one way to wrap all the earlier ‘Tomorrowverse’ films for sure and I imagine it will result in several entertaining scenarios and setups in the next movie but here and now it is rather frustrating as it appears to be the Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part One fan-service mode after having spent one hour in constructing an argument that while not without its flaws, still possessed some value. If anything, it felt unlike other such films as Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (2023) which also has a sci-fi dome in the movie which contains several styles under the same concept.

Then there’s the other ongoing problem that I have had throughout this whole ‘Tomorrowverse which is the limitation of its animation as it seems to always remain low quality even when matched up with other DC animated features that were released almost ten years ago.

Yes, there is so much room for cool visuals here, but everything is ruined just so that everything looks nearly the same, which feels like a crime when making an animated movie about the multiverse. I get that this style was chosen in order to distance these movies from the previous DC animated films style, but this leads to a big mess in the end that a lot of movies are rather horrible to look at. It may resolve one issue, but is the other issues worth it? I wouldn’t think so.

Perhaps Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths – Part Two is the answer to my outcries and will show us a multiversal army unlike we’ve ever imagined it, but until then, I have no choice but to critique this particular portion based on how it has performed so far.

I would not quite say it is a bad movie, it does have its strong points and at least some concepts that are somewhat fascinating, but at its worst, it just comes off as a zenith of all the dysfunctional aspects infesting superhero entertainment at present, and even cinema. Maybe it’s a good thing that the “Tomorrowverse” is coming to an end because if there is one thing that appears to be lacking in DC’s animation, it is simply more innovative concepts.

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