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Fresh and Exciting

Although it has its amusing moments, in eneral the plot does not convince.

Ok... Let's be honest. It cannot be the best movie but is quite enjoyable. The movie has the potential to develop a great plot for future movies

The acting is good, and the firecracker script has some excellent ideas.

When I saw the cast list for The New Frontier I was really quite blown away. From David Boreanaz to the late great Miguel Ferrer to Neil Patrick Harris, Lucy Lawless, Kyle MacLachlan, John Heard & Jeremy Sisto.Sadly that's where the quality ends. It's animated and scored fine, but it's story is overly convoluted and an utter mess.Set in the 1950's and including all your Justice League favorites the timeline makes absolutely no sense whatsoever and really put me off.Certain characters like Batman have barely any presence in the film at all and may as well not even be in it.I know I'm a harsh critic but this is a contender for the worst DC animation I've seen.The Good: Excellent openingGreat castThe Bad:Timeline is bizzareWhy do all the characters look the same?Things I Learnt From This Movie:Seeing Miguel Ferrer and John Heard in the same thing makes me a sad panda. RIP

This movie is defiantly good if you are a massive fan of the silver age heroes and you love to read the comics. Then you would most definitely love this movie. However it is sort of weird that Hal Jordan doesn't become Green Lantern until the last battle and that Robin and Aquaman just randomly appeared for about 10 seconds of the film. But at least they got the actor who played Aquaman from Smallville to voice him in this movie which is a positive from my end.Honestly, considering how the character designs look like their silver age or 1950's appearance it is still good. It would give the new fans like something fresh and new to look at. Adapting the comics into a movie was a good call. I would mind if DC makes a prequel series of this movie.

With all the dark versions of the JL in other cartoons, this story is refreshingly light and optimistic. Set in the late 1950s/early 1960s, it retells the origin of the JL, or rather creates a new origin with a villain called the centre.This film includes most of the characters that existed for DC at the time, including Adam Strange, the challengers of the unknown and Blackhawk. Some viewers, not familiar with DC's history might find these characters confusing and distracting.It must be said that The Centre, when it appears, is a major disappointment. After so long a build-up, I was expecting more than a flying island, that seems to be a nod towards Krakoa, the sentient island who brought the new X-men together.There are certain longueurs in TNF, particularly around Hal Jordan being made Green Lantern, something which outstays its welcome for me although GL has always been a favourite character of mine.But this film has a charm and enthusiasm which is unusual among modern day superhero works.

Justice League: The New Frontier is basically a love letter to the classic "Silver Age" DC Comics superheroes, and an inspirational journey back to the mid-century, post-WWII America in which those characters were created. A powerful destructive force arises amidst the backdrop of Cold War McCarthyism and the early space age of scientific pioneering. Every major DC superhero is included in the plot, and this film more even than most Justice League stories that I've seen on screen manages to achieve an epic, cinematic feel. It really is a big story, and it feels like it has some true storytelling magic in it.The character depictions are not the modernized ones that can be found in most current comics or television series. I love the portrayal of Wonder Woman in particular. I am a big fan of updating things to fit into the aesthetic reality of the present, which often involves getting "gritty" and/or "dark." However, I find New Frontier to be beautifully nostalgic. The art style, animation, costume designs and of course the setting and subject matter all evoke a simpler time when there were certainly big problems to be dealt with, but when the horizons seemed endless and optimism was less cynically complicated. The final "outro" segment of the film plays a series of scenes and images over a John F. Kennedy speech, and is one of the most genuinely moving things that I have ever experienced while watching an animated film.As far as content, there is a good deal of at-times-graphic violence, and no small amount of blood during the most intense parts. There is also a little bit of language. What does that mean? Maybe it is not well suited for young children, but I appreciate the serious human tone of it, and for kids who are old enough not to be psychologically messed up by animated violence, this is a great film to watch, very thought-provoking and inspiring. It is something of a history lesson both in terms of the much-loved comic-book characters and in terms of American history (albeit within a fantastical context here). Of all the recent Warner Bros/DC animated films, this one is my favorite. I think that it feels the most like an actual epic, full-length film, and the story has more than enough heart to go around. Highly recommended.