Reviews

The voice cast all did great as usual.

The added scenes of Batgirl/Barbara Gordon was a nice little mini movie in it's own. She had very little time in the graphic novel so it was I found necessary screen time to spend time with the character before what happens to her later on. It doesn't improve the story but that was never going to happen since the graphic novel is already perfect, it's more for adding minutes to the runtime and character development.

The animation was the big negative for me. It looked cheap and there was no reason it couldn't look better. Though it is fine as it is and I can see how Bolland's artwork would be really hard to animate. The first 30 mins had the best animation because they didn't have to rely on source material.

The music was surprisingly better than I expected.

I don't understand some people's complaints about things that were straight out of the graphic novel. No one complained about them being in the actual story, but seeing it on the screen all of the sudden some people now have a problem with it. This story isn't completely canon and should be taken as a semi-elseworlds story.

After the trailer I was expecting too give it a 6-7/10, but it was better than I expected and I will be watching it several more times. Ranking it with other DC animated films it probably ranks between #5-10 all time with Mask of the Phantasm and Under the Red Hood being at the top.

I give it an 8/10

This was my #1 most anticipated film of 2016 because I love DC and I loved Man of Steel, but after reading a lot of disappointed reviews my expectations dropped and I got a little depressed from all the negativity. That might have helped me enjoy the film more than I expected. This is not as good as Man of Steel, but I enjoyed it very much. I was not bored once, even though there is a big chunk of the film that is slowly paced, I was invested in every character and the story. I was fine with all the casting, Jesse Eisenberg was not my ideal Lex Luthor, but he wasn't terrible either. There were scenes that gave me goosebumps, scenes that were jaw dropping and scenes that were heavily emotional.

To put this film in a metaphor, I would say it is a giant beautiful puzzle that was 2/3s finished and then someone hastily tried to finish it, in doing so a few pieces were shoved in the wrong spots and some pieces from a different puzzle got accidentally mixed in it and some pieces got left out. I am hoping the extended R rated cut fixes some of these mistakes and adds the missing pieces. Even though it has many flaws it still made me really excited for all the future DC films, hopefully they don't have to worry about setting up for future films and can focus more on finishing the puzzle properly.

Theatrical version - 7.5/10 Extended R Rated Cut - ?

I have heard alot of bad reviews on this movie and I don't think they are just. I enjoyed this movie very much, and along the lines of werewolf movies I would rate this one as one of the best ever. The actors did a good job, the dog in the movie stole the show and the story couldn't be any better. The only thing I didn't like in the movie was near the end where they try to do some CGI and it turned out very cheesy, otherwise I would have given this movie a 10. 9 out of 10

I remember the first 5 times I saw this movie I was laughing so much that tears rolled down my face. This movie was very well done and I have nothing bad to say about this movie. I definetly recommend this movie to anyone who wants to laugh.... and if it doesn't make you laugh then you better check your pulse.