alan tyler

Crisis on Infinite Earths was an amazing 12 issue series of comics penned and given life by the incredible team of Marv Wolfman and George Perez. This movie is supposedly based upon that series. It is not. Other than the title, and a credit to Marv and George in the opening credits, it bears no resemblance to the epic saga that they created. Instead, we got a hot mess of bad animation and terrible story that, while running at a little over 90 minutes, feels much longer. George Perez's amazing art designs are gone in favor of cheaply drawn and badly animated characters and backgrounds, and Marv Wolfman's story and dialogue are replaced by a slow and confusing slog that feels like it was written by AI. Instead of focusing on the comic story that literally changed DC comics history forever, this is another Flash-centric story that has almost no impact on anything at all. The book introduced us to the Monitor, an ancient cosmic being who recruits the greatest heroes from a thousand Earths to fight against the destruction of the entire multi-verse. The antagonist, the aptly-named Anti-Monitor and his armies of shadow demons were literally erasing entire universes to increase his own strength and power. Heroes died, most notably Supergirl and the Flash, and universes were destroyed. The story was a pulse-pounding saga, the repercussions of which are still felt in comics today. In this movie, the Monitor is relegated to being a knock off of Marvel's Watcher, and the Anti-Monitor is replaced by a sentient wall of antimatter, and the cast of literal thousands of heroes are boiled down to a handful of poorly-written Juscice Leaguers, who feel like side-characters in a Flash story. As an adaptation of the comic, it fails miserably. As a stand alone movie, it also fails miserably. The story and dialogue are slow, badly paced and confusing. The voice acting sounds like it was phoned-in, and the animation is cheap and not on par with DC animation. If you're a fan of the original Crisis story, skip this. If you haven't read it, do so, and ignore this one. You can thank me later.

So much more than a remake. They've expanded the worlds, the story, the characters, the battle system of the classic game that we all love. Graphics and design are beautiful, game play is challenging without being overly hard. 10/10