![]() Matt Bomer was great, as Barry Allen, showing his humor and manic side of the Flash, where his mind is always racing and has trouble focusing. A bit more love portrayed between her and Steve, could have added a bit more emotional heft to the film. There could have been a bit more tenderness in Stana’s portrayal of Wonder Woman. The performances are all strong and we are able to empathize with them through out the film. Aquaman (Liam McIntyre) and Doctor Fate (Keith Ferguson) also appear in the story and both play major roles in the plot. The cast includes the vocal talents of Stana Katic as Wonder Woman, Matt Bomer as Barry Allen, Omid Abtahi as Hawkman, Darren Criss as Superman, Chris Diamantopoulos as Steve Trevor, Matthew Mercer as Hourman, Elysia Rotaru as Dinah Lance and Armen Taylor as Jay Garrick. The animation stays consistent with the other DC films and harkens back to the old hand drawn animated films, before computer animation was a thing. All these themes are touched on, some are explored a bit, but most are never fully fleshed out. If you have powers, are you obligated to fight for others? Time travel paradoxes, and the walls that masked vigilantes put up to not fall in love so that they do not endanger those around them. Wonder Woman questions where this line is and depends on Steve Trevor to keep reminding her not to cross it. There is a line that superpowered beings have that should not be crossed when it comes to fighting wars. The script dips into some of the moral dilemmas that plague many heroes. It is soon revealed that Barry didn’t just travel through time, but to a different Earth all together. In present day (well a pre JLA present day), Barry Allen’s flash is assisting Superman in a battle with Brainiac, when he accidentally gets thrown back in time and teams up with the Justice Society. Led by Wonder Woman, the team consists of Trevor, Black Canary, Hawkman, Hourman, Jay Garrick’s Flash and a reporter they call Shakespeare whose job it is to spin the stories of their exploits, keeping the team a secret. Roosevelt, in response to the rise of Nazi Germany, follows the advice of Major Steve Trevor and forms a group of superpowered warriors to battle the threat. Justice Society: World War II is no exception. I so often wonder why some of these scripts aren’t the ones used for the live action movies. ![]() They get great vocal talents and tell engaging stories. ![]() In my opinion, for years, DC has the market cornered on their animated films (and until recently I think their live action TV shows were superior to Marvel’s, but WandaVision and Falcon and the Winter Soldier stole a lot of that thunder).
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