Overview

The movie starts with dim-witted, white male Superman attacking Darkseid on his home planet of Apokolips. Several members of the league suggest caution. Lex Luthor suggests sending an emissary. Heck since multiple planets have fallen, maybe earth should team up with say the Green Lantern corps? But Superman won't hear it, we attack now cause I say so!

So most of the Justice League piles into 3 space shuttles and take a portal to Apokolips, Darseid's home world (which he can phase through space and time). There is no stealth attack, no plan at all apparently, just a lot of ass kicking attitude! Of course the "no plan" goes to hell when Darkseid unleashed 500 or so "paradooms", parademons crossed with DNA from Doomesday given them Superman level stregth. The Justice League lose in a matter of minutes. Most heroes are killed in all sorts of grisly ways. A few escape. And the rest are taken captive and made into zombie slaves for Darkseid through brainwashing.

Two years later, we follow a depowered Superman and Raven, who is experiencing power troubles of her own, as they try to get the band back together for one final battle! Darkseid has fitted the earth with magma extractors to suck out the core and destroy the planet, so our heroes only have about 1 week. First they get John Constantine and a demon dude from a pub in London. Then they go to China and get bat boy (Batman's son) who is now the head of the league of assassins. Then they meet up with Lois Lane who has inked the services of the Suicide Squad lead by Harley Quinn. Together they make their way to Lex Corp which has the only portal to Apokolips.

Half go through, giving them some element of surprise. The other half draw out the paradooms by attacking the magma extractors, thus providing a diversion. They fight it out with Darkseid's forces lead by Batman. Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter and other heroes that were made into cyborg zombies Superman gets his powers back. Most of the good guys have their minds restored. But the good guys only win through a bit of luck. And calling it a win is a bit of a stretch. Only a few heroes survive and Batman notes that the damage already done to the planet will cost at least another billion lives. Happy ending right?

Thoughts

Let me first say, the voice acting is great. The animation is good. But the writing. Ugh! There is just a whole lotta stupid in this movie.

First off, you are going to conquer a planet, an entire plant, with 3 to 5 dozen heroes? Are you insane? Apparently yes. Also, they go in with zero intel of any kind. Their plan seems to be to find Darkseid and kill him? Really? That is pretty dark, even for DC. Superman is every bit the boy scout that Capt America is in Marvel. No way he would do that. Clearly just a plot device to show as many super heroes getting killed as possible. Yuck!

So this movie should be called "John Constantine and Suicide Squad Sorta Save the World". Because clearly, he is the most powerful character in the Justice League. His magic powers seem to be unlimited and can be used at little or no cost. He spends most of his time drinking and showing little regard for his fellow man. He seems to only help out of curiosity rather than some higher goal. Not very heroic. Too much soft magic crap. Just not my cup of tea.

The fight scenes are abysmal. The bad guys stand around in circles waiting to be punched. Occasionally, the paradooms realize they outnumber the League members 10 to 1 and actually rush the hero. This usually ends in a hero being torn to pieces. Double yuck! Everyone is so overpowered that calling the encounters "fights" seems like an overstatement.

By the way, power and water seem to work just fine in the dystopian future! Cool! So glad that power plants and water treatment plants no longer need any human intervention. Also, there must be plenty of food as everyone also seems to have plenty of that.

There is not much to recommend in this bleak pile of crap. It is just a series of pointless fights which result in a dystopian world that is worse than the world the movie starts with. Watch some anime instead.