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Justice League Throne of Atlantis Review

Posted: 19 Feb 2015 03:22 PM PST

Here I am on a Tuesday with nothing to do but look for a movie to watch then i remembered that there was a new Justice League movie out. So i payed the Google Play store a little visit to rent it and give it a watch since i do enjoy the dc animated movies quite a bit. I went into the movie with some hesitation since its mainly about AquaMan who is definitely not seen in the best of light due to shitty games and the old justice league cartoon. I just had to see if they could make Aquaman a badass light he was in the injustice video game and they mostly got him to be a badass.

Justice League Throne of Atlantis is pretty much the direct sequel to Justice League War which seen the formation of the Justice League. The main star of this movie is Aquaman since this is pretty much his origin story, since he wasn’t in the last Justice League movie. The basic plot of this movie is Arthur Curry finds out he is part Atlantean when his half brother sends assassins to kill him. He then has to team up with the Justice League to stop his evil half brother from destroying the surface world. You would think it would be pretty easy to do this story but they kinda screwed up with the filler content in the movie.Since there are times when you feel like you are watching two different movies… similar but different. Since at one point they introduce the trenchers which show up about halfway through the movie to try to randomly kill Arthur Curry. It just felt like they threw them into the story to pad the movie out a bit

Also something else the writers seemed to throw in to pad the movie out a bit is the romance bits with Wonder Woman and Superman which did take up a bit of time during the beginning of the movie. Even with the slightly uneven story i managed to still mostly enjoy it.

The visuals were pretty decent but then again i am usually not disappointed by the DC Animated movies in regards to visuals. The only thing that stood out as odd was when Arthur punched his brother in one scene which just looked odd, but it wasn’t anything negative it just felt very comic bookish.

The Audio I enjoyed for the most part since it had the same voice actors as Justice League War, along with a few new additions mainly the Atlanteans One of the stand out voices in my opinion was Orm being played by Sam Witwer who did a pretty good job of sounding like a stuck up brat who wished he was Loki. The other notable new addition was Matt Lanter who played Aquaman/ Arthur Curry; Matt actually did a pretty good job as a very conflicted Aquaman in my opinion So for the most part i liked the voice acting in this movie except for Black Manta which just disappointed me. The music was so-so it wasn’t great but it wasn’t bad so it was in the middle of the road.. I’m not really good at reviewing music unless it was bad which i would just rant about it but this was just OK.