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Justice League vs. Teen Titans (2016)
There's Some Good, and Some Bad
I'll start by saying I've pretty much enjoyed all the DC animated movies, and this is no exception. For the most part, I did enjoy this, but I've got some issues with it.
I'll go ahead and get the positives out of the way, not to say there's more bad than good, but there's really less to say about the good. The voice acting is, for the most part, pretty solid. These aren't the Teen Titans of the cartoon, just like this isn't the Justice League from the cartoon of the same era. Starfire was pretty spot-on, Beast Boy was actually pretty great, and Damien's child voice actor seems to have finally got the hang of the role. The plot is about as all-over-the-place as Batman: Bad Blood, but that's what happens when you condense a whole story arc into a movie that's less than 90 minutes, I don't mind it.
Now for the bad. Raven's voice actress comes across as though she's just reading her lines so she can get it over with and go home. There's a scene in the middle of the movie that takes place in an amusement park, and the entire scene is bombarded with this horrible pop punk song, followed by a pseudo-J-pop... thing. This scene dragged on for far too long, and most of it could be cut from the film and the plot wouldn't be affected. Another thing is the misleading title, which DC seems to be fond of with these VS movies. While there is a scene where the Titans fight the Justice League, it's fairly brief, and only happens because the JL are possessed by Trigon. And that brings me to my next issue; Trigon, he spends the whole movie trying to manipulate Raven into getting him to Earth, and when he gets there he just kinda... stomps around for a while, breathes fire on some buildings. In the Teen Titans cartoon we got to see just how much of a threat Trigon could be, though it was built up over a whole season, when he actually showed up he was shown as something to be feared. Here, we see the literal devil reduced to a villain of the week.
Would I recommend this? Yes, I'd recommend a rental, especially to the Young Justice crowd. Older fans of the DCAU (Justice League, Batman The Animated Series, etc.) and the original Teen Titns might be let down by this one, but it's still worth a watch.
World War Z (2013)
Tagged for spoilers, but this movie has no surprises
World War Z is a book I admittedly haven't read, but what I do know about it sounds like an interesting and unique take on the now-tired zombie genre. This in-name-only adaptation is the most by-the-numbers zombie movie I have ever seen. The plot is predictable, to the extreme that I was able to predict the dialogue as it happened. The characters are flat and Brad Pitt gives a disinterested performance, likely due to all the re-shoots that only seem to have added to the confusion in the narrative. On the whole I'd call this something of a sub-par prequel to I Am Legend, which isn't a perfect movie either, but it does enough with the formula for me to recommend it over WWZ.
P.S. I was highly disappointed that a film titled World War "Z" had no Super Saiyans to speak of.
Saving Christmas (2014)
This is awful, but the kind of awful you have to see
Acting, cinematography, scripting, effects, direction, acting again; all of these components are done in the worst way possible. That said, you need to see this. It's not often that we come across a movie that's so abysmal that it requires study. Like The Room, Troll 2, After Earth, it's so bad that you can't help but enjoy yourself in watching it. The leaps of logic Kirk Cameron makes to justify his points, a pro-materialistic viewpoint while still claiming to be true to the teachings of Jesus, has to be witnessed to be believed. I bet you didn't know that every tree in the world is also a cross which is also the tree from the garden of Eden, and putting Jesus on the cross is also like putting ornaments on the tree, which is symbolic of putting the fruit back on the tree of knowledge. Or that Saint Nick was a real bad dude (and by bad, Kirk means good), who beat people brutally in the name of Christ. It's really a baffling exercise in doing everything wrong, and you have to see it.