Superheroes are Becoming a Running Joke

Rating: 6/10 (24 March 2018)

Taken one by one, the superheroes from the comics are typically presented as mostly serious, with some exceptions. When they group them however, only X-Men has managed to pull off the affair without a constant running punchline about the fact of how silly they are.
In this movie, we see a gathering of heroes, some we know and some we might not be too familiar with (if we are not comic book fans). For those of us not so familiar with certain comic book heroes, there's really not enough backstory to these folks to create any connection with them. Once you get to know more about them, you begin to understand just why this is the case - they do things that are just silly and their universes don't seem to co-exist, however somehow they tried to mesh these folks into one universe.
In a world where you have Superman, you don't need Batman or Wonder Woman. They pale in comparison to him in every way and the movie basically emphasizes that fact, when they aren't lampooning the very idea of each character's existence in the first place (which to me seems to be a bit of a ploy to show some compromise with the non-super hero folks out there on just how silly the entire concept is).
It's telling that Gadot is the best actor on the screen not named Jeremy Irons. Affleck is ok, but he became Ben Affleck somewhere in the middle of the movie, and I never saw him as Bruce Wayne afterward.
Superman is mostly CGI it seems. You can tell the behind shots of him aren't even him, and the frontal shots have his face superimposed (no pun intended). Could they not get the actor or was the body suit that over the top? It's not like the actor doesn't have the body for it (unlike Ben who never bared chest in this film, no doubt due to how flabby he's become since filming Batman, you could see the spare tire from the side shots and the fake muscle suit didn't hide that well).
The Flash was completely out of place here. They should have picked a better hero. His humor was ill placed, poorly timed and they didn't seem to know when to let it go.
Aquaman was interesting only because the actor is made for these types of roles. Still, the street lingo he used didn't really jive with his history and environment. Dude hangs out in fishing villages and ancient cities yet he talks like he's a gym rat who frequents Starbucks. At least Thor has the accent and some cultural inflection and prose.
I don't even remember the name of the half human/half droid guy. He didn't make any sense to me, seemed like a Transformers thing.
All in all, there was too much unrecoverable death (again) with the Amazons and yet humanity itself didn't suffer a single casualty. So it appears that all the power that's basically "pure power" wasn't enough to beat one superhero, because face it - Superman didn't need the others to win this battle.