Yawn. Poorly Filmed Snooze Fest.

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

Clever, believable, and super fun to watch. It totally has replay value.

Yo, there's no way for me to review this film without saying, take your *insert ethnicity + "ass" here* to see this film,like now. You have to see it in order to know what you're really messing with.

Essentially acting as an origin story for 'Aquaman', 'Justice League: Throne Of Atlantis (2015)' has some exciting and genuinely tense set-pieces which weave together a political-intrigue plot with a more conventional 'superhero' story. It usually balances its 'beat 'em up's with its character development pretty nicely and it even manages to throw a few emotionally affecting surprises in the mix for good measure. When all is said and done, though, it ultimately falls back on a more traditional third act that feels ever-so-slightly third-rate, even if it is well animated and entertaining to a decent extent. The flick also has a number of strange issues, such as the occasional blatantly unnecessary line of blatant exposition and some supporting voice-work that isn't really up to par. In the end, it's an entertaining animation that includes some well-realised, if slightly generic, interpretations of its characters but falls short in a few key areas. 6/10

This is ludicrously bad. It is almost as if DC/WB did not want to make it. The biggest pitfall of DC's newest venture is the story. What the heck is going on in there? It is as if it was belched out of some story idea app that puts together clichéd tropes.Foreign queen sires earthling and abandons him, check. Megalomaniac villain without no motivation, check. Hero who swallows up lengthy exposition about who he is supposed to be without raising an eyebrow, check. (Speaking of eyebrows, hey DC, if you're tuned in, can you please do away with those horrendous eyebrows you slap on every character?) Oh, and the Queen must wear revealing, flowing clothes and must be murdered by her own son to provide our hero, her other son, who by the way never knew her and couldn't possibly have an deep attachment to her with a revenge story arc. Also, Mera, well classic Trinity syndrome if I ever saw one. She falls for the guy on bandaging his very first cut. Like, puhh....leeeezzzz. The doctor recommends an Anita Sarkeesian video every night for a week.On the plus side, I geeked out on the amped up gore, Green Lantern's vacuum cleaner and Superman/ Wonder Woman romance. Also, the video analysis scene where every team member puts forth collective input was nicely done. The voice work is good. Animation is good but falls short of epic. DC stalwarts definitely need to pull their socks up.And, can anyone explain why Orm created that huge tidal wave and used it merely as a stage curtain?

DC's new animated continuity, based off the New 52, continues it's steady march into mediocrity. Not keeping up extensively with the current state of DC comics, I don't know if the problem is the source material or the adaptations. However given that none of the New 52 based films have managed to hit it out of the park like say "New Frontier" or "Crisis on Two Earths" did, I'm inclined to feel the source material is the core problem.In any case, this features the introduction of Aquaman into this new continuity. And to be fair, it starts out pretty strongly. Arthur Curry is a pretty well realized character, and his being pulled between two worlds is established well early on. The existing Justice League members are fairly solid, with Rosario Dawson taking over the voicing of Wonder Woman being a fairly substantial improvement over the grating portrayal from "Justice League: War." The strongest thing, as with "War" and even the atrocious "Son of Batman," is the action scenes. This appears to be what the film wants to be the focus. It wants to be an action film first, and a Justice League film second. The action may be solid, but it's not in service of much and the whole thing starts to unravel about halfway through.This is one of those cases where the 72 minute runtime really hampers the whole thing. Arthur Curry is a character going through a fairly complex personal journey and it's impossible to give that the time and weight it needs while also trying to service the entire Justice League at the time. The result is that once the main conflict kicks in and the struggle for the titular throne takes center stage, all nuance goes out the window.The biggest problem really is the villains. Orm should be a very conflicted character, feeling rightfully cheated out of his throne as well as concerned about what is best for his people. Instead he's shown as a one dimensional villain who is also possibly the dumbest villain in recent film history. He summons a massive tidal wave, and that wave closes in on the city of Metropolis it's said flatly by Batman that there's no way they can stop it. But then the wave doesn't hit. It just parts like a curtain to reveal Orm's army. Why would he not send in the tidal wave as his first strike??? Why offer what is basically a fair fight of army vs. army??? And the way he's defeated feels cheap. Black Manta doesn't fair much better. There are hints of the deeper villain under the surface, but ultimately he's just the standard secondary baddie.Even though the action scenes are good, the level of violence is unnecessary. The action really isn't that much worse than would be found on a children's TV cartoon, except that where a character would just be punched to the ground, here they are bloodily sliced in half. It makes sense for some characters, but when even the "heroes" are violently dispatching Atlanteans left and right something feels off. The film even tries to have it both ways, but having the Atlanteans remove their helmets when peace is declared showing unique character models for each one. It's a good humanizing moment, but it also makes you immediately think "how many good men who thought they were defending their kingdom did the heroes slaughter before we got to this point?" The answer is "way too many for this to feel OK." It is at least an improvement over "Son of Batman," in so far as none of the characters completely fail. Even Orm, as one dimensional as he is, is functional as a villain versus the insanely boring depiction of Deathstroke in that film. And there's nobody as grating as Damian was in that film either, thank goodness. It's about on par with "Justice League: War," with the same total number of strengths and weaknesses, just not the same ones. For instance Wonder Woman is better, but the film loses steam rather than builds to a thrilling climax. There's a stronger story to be told here, but the film is more concerned about the next action set piece than it is about a solid character payoff or emotional through-line in anything but a very ham-fisted fashion.

First and foremost I should state I'm not a huge dc fan. Alright that being said so this movie started off pretty good. Some decent fight scenes, script/story were good too. Like I said I'm not a huge fan of DC so I probably can't say for sure if some fights were accurate. Superman for example. Just figured he probably could have kicked the fake kings butt. But one thing that really got me was that the bad king dudes got this mega tsunami and right before it hits the city he just freezes it?!?! I mean the heros even said we can't save everyone. They couldn't stop the wave. So why stop it? Maybe the writers felt killing millions might be bad, but there was a decent amount killed in the other fight scenes. Obviously not near a city being taken out. Anyways right when he stopped the wave, and decided to walk in on foot and attack I was like this is such bs. I mean yes its a cartoon, but seriously why would he ever do that. So dumb. lol. Will thats my rant, still I gave it 3 outta 10, had he leveled the city.....meh...maybe it would have gotten a 7 1/2.