Touches You

If you don't like this, we can't be friends.

In truth, there is barely enough story here to make a film.

By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

All I can say is...not much.My kids enjoyed and was entertained by it so I guess that is the only thing that matters.Both the animation and story was alright, but both could have been better. Like some of the other reviewers mentioned it did feel a bit like a 1 hour Super Friends television special with the all too familiar Legend of Dome headquarters and Hall Of Justice.There was some heavy hitters in the voice acting department at least.Didn't like the inconsistency of when Superman disappeared, so should have Bizarro since he was an imperfect clone of Superman. No Superman, No Clone!

What I see with the previous reviews, is jaded cynicism where probably grown folks have forgotten how to be children and have fun like children.This movie is a huge nod to the Super Friends and it borrows the tone heavily, with painfully obvious, perhaps intentional, dramatic convenient situations that are to be expected, it shows intricate concepts like time traveling in a very simplistic manner, because it knows that even with a smooth talking convoluted explanation like most movies do in an attempt to gain a more serious tone these days, it's still a topic that for most of us is beyond our grasp and therefore it doesn't bother with it, since really, any explanation would do.But it all works to show a side of the DC characters that we haven't seen in a LONG time, the silly and heart touching side, every character is eventually involved in a joke to the point of almost putting a Scooby-doo chase scene, and I don't mean that in a bad way, I couldn't help but to smile, giggle and laugh at the many absurd situations and lines that just work their way to your childhood, but there's more, it's not a comedy.The action is by far the best I've seen in a long time, the unfortunate comparison is with SoB, which is rendered outdated by this movie, every move flows beautifully and I truly felt excited while watching the fight scenes that even show in detail that some characters are supposed to be expert martial artists... SoB did not succeed at all in this department. The animation is leaps and bounds better than the previous Son of Batman, the drawings aren't on the cheap side like the mentioned movie, where they seem to be running out and save in graphite, the same goes for the voice acting, even if we don't hear any of the regular voices, the delivery is not overly dramatic and is natural instead, making every line and/or joke not seem forced, all the contrary.Like I said, expect dramatic convenience that is borderline shameless, but that is what this movie is, shameless of itself, it just wants you to have fun and it delivers. Bring out your inner child and have a good time with this movie.

I'll keep it simple. It has a character called Karate Kid (!?) - yeah I'm not joking! The best scene features Bizarro and Solomon Grundy having a low IQ conversation. That's it. Bad beyond belief. Imagine the power of time travel preventing this flick from being made. That may be a better story.As a side note, why are they making more and more preschool friendly animated movies? Marvel's Black Widow and Punisher movie was equally bad. The days of JL Unlimited storytelling seem to be over. :( P.S. The guy who said that this is more watchable than JL: War clearly doesn't watch enough animated films.

I'm not entirely sure what the folks at DC & WB hoped to achieve with this "stealth release" other than proving they can churn out DVD animation faster than team Marvel/Disney can, but there is one possible explanation: as stated in another review this has the look and feel of a TV pilot for a more kid friendly New 52 Justice League series mashed up with Super-Friends that didn't get picked up for whatever reason, but by the time they heard the bulk of the project was already in the can, so it was turned into a DVD in an attempt to recoup some of the money, even though they didn't put a whole lot of money into marketing it. Anyhow, the plot finds future Legion of Hero kids Karate Kid and Dawnstar getting mixed up in Back to the Future time travel shenanigans when they accidentally release a literally frozen in time Lex Luthor, who gets a hold of the Time Trapper and uses him in an attempt to make sure the Justice League never comes into existence... by getting rid of Superman! Chaos and Mayhem ensues. I have no great love of Super-Friends, which this feels like a more modernized version of (it is reportedly based on an old episode of Super-Friends with the same basic premise), but I decided to give it a look to see how it compared with the oh so mature and action heavy "Justice League: War", which the powers that be bragged was a big epic "popcorn movie" and it turned out to be the worst kind (though not surprising given that its source material, the New 52 Justice League: Origin, was pretty bad and well below the abilities of the normally reliable Geoff Johns). To my surprise, this was actually pretty enjoyable, despite my usual anti-Super-Friends bias. While WAR dragged on and on forever with no end in sight for a rather trite and boring story and failed to improve upon the faulty source material (and for the most part was just annoying to sit through), "Trapped In Time" is surprisingly brisk and its characters for the most are not annoyingly over the top (though Karate Kid comes dangerously close to it at times - then again he probably gets more character growth in this than just about of the WAR characters), which was unfortunately the case with WAR, which tries to be mature but in all the wrong ways (substituting good, clever writing with crude in your face profanity and crassness). The voice cast is a who's who of today's best voice actors, with Fred Tatasciore, better known as Marvel's go to guy for voicing the Incredible Hulk, stealing the feature with his powerful rendition of Lex Luthor. And he's not the only Marvel veteran here, as quite a few cast members have histories voicing Marvel heroes and villains. At the end of the day this will probably appeal more to kids than older fans (unless they have soft spots for Super-Friends or just like mild camp) but it's a decent way to pass the time.