 | |
List Price: $19.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 35780
Released: February 26, 2008 |
| Our Price: $5.05 |
| Used Price: $3.25 |
|
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Media: DVD |
|
Editorial Review:
Saving Humanity for the Very First Time! Based on Darwyn Cooke's award-winning graphic novel this thrilling adventure reveals the origin of the Justice League. With Cold War paranoia putting Superman Batman and Wonder Woman under government suspicion only the gravest threat imaginable can force these heroes - along with an army of newcomers including The Flash Green Lantern and Martian Manhunter - to unite in a spectacular showdown to save the world.Running Time: 75 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION/DC COMICS UPC: 085391108177 Manufacturer No: 110817
Justice League - The New Frontier (Single-Disc Edition) Reviews:
Not appropriate for small children 
2008-10-05 - I grew up watching cartoons like batman, superman, wonder woman, etc. So when my three year old son begged me to buy the video, I did. Things must have changed since I grew up. I thought the target audience of these cartoons were kids. I was shocked when I heard my son say "mommy the lady say 'Son of a bitch'". I watched the video and couldn't believe that type of language would be in a superhero cartoon. Well now I am trying to remove this new word from my child's vocabulary.
Justice for The New Frontier 
2008-09-25 - Justice League: The New Frontier is a good representation of the original Cooke story, but I think it could have benefited from a longer running time and less emphasis on Hal Jordan.
Not really the Justice League, more like Hal Jordan fan service 
2008-09-12 - As others have mentioned if you go in expecting a Justice League experience like JLU or the JL animated series you are going to be very disappointed. This is more of a retelling of silver age Hal Jordan.
Putting Bat/Supes and WW on the front cover is pure bait and switch, as a die hard fan of JL animated and JLU I feel a bit insulted by this move by DC.
Mature Content, Excellent Extras 
2008-09-10 - I really enjoy the Justice League cartoon, and everything Bruce Timm does, but this is not really associated with that, so some people may be disappointed. Timm only produces this, so it may have a different feel than you are used to, as well.
Other than that, excellent, violent, mature, fun to just see a different and decidedly retro reworking of the characters we like so much. People die badly, Wonderwoman is a bit edgier.
The voice casting is very good. I'll always prefer Kevin Conroy, out of faithfulness, but Jeremy Sisto does a very good Batman. He doesn't do very much in this film though. The writer of the graphic novel was more interested in Green Lantern.
By far the best part of this DVD is the History of the Justice League featurette. In my opinion it was better than the film itself, and practically worth the price on its own. It is much more accurate and indepth than many of the sloppy thrown-together featurettes you're used to.
Strongly recommended.
It Was OK But Nothing Special
2008-08-31 - I've never really been a fan of the animated comic book movies, but I decided to give it a try as still being a fan of the heroes I find the Justice League interesting. What I was given was good, but nothing amazing and it certainly didn't change my perception of these types of animated movies.
The story is set in the 1950's and focuses around the original formation of the Justice League of America. Batman and Detective John Jones are trying to solve the mystery of the Centre, Superman and Wonder Woman are soldiers for the US Army, Flash is trying to live a normal life with Special Agent King Farraday always on his tail and Hal Jordan has been selected for a special space mission to Mars. The whole centre mystery primarily focuses around the Martian Manhunter and the birth of the Green Lantern. It's a good little story, but seems to be a film that's trying too hard to appeal to all audiences.
Be warned, the violence is quite graphic and at times the language used is quite colourful. I guess the writers and animators felt that this would help create a higher level of adult realism to the film. On the contrary in fact, it came across as forced and quite ridiculous as a whole.
It's an enjoyable film none the less, but I feel kind of dirty even calling it a film or movie as it's just over an hour long and in my eyes a true film has to be 90 minutes or more. I can imagine that if you're a fan of the old school comic saga or TV shows then this is a film you will love, but to me it was just nothing ground breaking.
