Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox

Plot synopsis:
While visiting his mother's grave, Barry Allen, known as the Flash, is alerted to a break-in by Captain Cold, Captain Boomerang, Heat Wave, Mirror Master, and Top at the Flash Museum. Defeating the Rogues, he discovers that they have been hired by his archenemy, Professor Eobard "Zoom" Thawne, as part of a plan to destroy Central City. With the help of the Justice League, Barry foils Thawne's plot, but Thawne's taunts over the death of his mother still haunt Barry as he departs.
The next day, Barry discovers that the world has radically changed: his powers are gone, his mother is alive, his wife Iris is married to someone else, and the Justice League does not exist. Aquaman and his Atlantean forces have sunk most of Europe, while Wonder Woman has led the Amazons in conquering Great Britain, and both forces are now at war after an attempted alliance between them resulted in Wonder Woman murdering Aquaman's wife Mera. Cyborg has assembled a team to eliminate both parties and approaches Batman to join them, but his refusal leads the government to scrap the plan, and instead recruit pilot Hal Jordan to fly an alien spacecraft to bomb the Atlanteans.
Barry visits Wayne Manor, but is attacked by Batman—who he realizes is not Bruce Wayne but his father Thomas. Attempting to explain things to the elder Wayne, Barry retrieves his costume from his ring, but Professor Zoom's costume appears, causing Barry to believe Thawne is responsible for the timeline alteration. Barry convinces Batman to help, and Batman helps him recreate the accident that gave him his powers, but Barry is severely burned.
In London, Steve Trevor attempts to extricate reporter Lois Lane, but is discovered by the Amazons and killed. The Amazons hunt down Lane, but she is rescued by the local resistance. Meanwhile, in the remains of Paris, Deathstroke and Lex Luthor are attacked and killed by Aquaman's forces while tracking the energy trail of Aquaman's new weapon, which is powered by the captive Captain Atom.
At the Batcave, after realizing that his memories are changing, Barry asks Batman to recreate the accident again. The second attempt results in success and Barry's powers are restored, but he discovers he cannot travel through time because Thawne is also using the Speed Force. Barry recruits more allies, beginning with Superman, who is a prisoner of the U.S. Government after his ship crashed into Metropolis. With the aid of Batman and Cyborg, they liberate Superman, who is empowered by Earth's yellow sun for the first time and fends off the facility's security then flies off in fear and confusion. Barry collapses as his memories continue to change.
Barry is taken to Billy Batson's home to recuperate, and learns that Jordan's attack has failed and that the final battle between the Amazons and Atlanteans has begun. Barry convinces the superheroes to help stop the war and they depart for Britain aboard Batman's jet, only to be shot down upon arrival. Batson and his siblings combine into Captain Thunder to fight Wonder Woman, while Barry, Cyborg and Batman occupy Aquaman. After killing Black Manta alongside Grifter, Batman is wounded by Ocean Master. Thawne reveals himself and after fighting and brutally defeating Barry, explains that Barry himself is responsible for this alternate timeline: Barry traveled back in time to save his mother, fracturing the fabric of reality. Wonder Woman uses her lasso to force Captain Thunder back into Batson and kills him; Superman returns but cannot save Cyborg from Aquaman, who then remotely detonates his Captain Atom-powered bomb. As the explosion tears across the landscape, Thawne mocks Barry but is killed by Batman. The dying Batman urges Barry to run, giving him a letter addressed to his son. Barry races back in time and stops his earlier self but again fractures time, creating another alternate timeline.
Barry awakens at his desk and finds that reality is apparently back to normal. After spending a moment with Iris at his mother's grave, Barry visits Bruce Wayne to tell him about everything that occurred. Barry gives Bruce the letter from his father, and Wayne thanks Barry then runs off.
In a post-credits scene, a Boom Tube opens in space above Earth and a horde of Parademons emerges.

Tags: realism

Review:
Some of the details in the story are different that its comic book counterpart, but overall is an amazing adaptation.I have to recognize my opinion may be a little bias as I'm a huge DC Comics fan and the Flashpoint event was the biggest thing since 1985 in terms of continuity as it rebooted everything from a new start point for all of DC characters.
All the battles are epic, characters are well portrayed and animation's very interesting with obvious anime influence.A lot of fun, totally worth it and if you're new to superhero animation this is a good starting point..
This movie serves three amazing purposes, each executed to perfection; first, bring the DC animated movie series to an even darker, more violent, mature place and audience; second, give us a glimpse into the Flash's personal back-story, top villains, and character development; and third, to showcase a period in DC comic book history that is crucial to further plot developments.
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox does work and brilliantly, for this viewer it's one of the better animated straight-to-video superhero films.
C. Thomas Howell also shines in one of his best, maybe even his best, film in recent years(considering that he's been in a lot of bad movies, especially from The Asylum, lately that's saying a lot)- he is menacing and very malicious as Zoom, his taunting of Flash is subtly chilling and one of the high points in the writing.
Their latest feature Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox not only brings everyone's favorite characters back together, it also once again brings some of the original cast as well including Kevin Conroy (Batman: Animated Series), and Nathan Fillion (Green Lantern: Emerald Knights) as well as numerous new to the cast including son of Superman: The Animated Series voice Tim Daly, Sam Daly taking on the role of Superman.
While we still have a way to go before getting the live action Justice League movie we have been waiting for, you can at least be happy to know that the next animated film coming up Justice League: War is sure to keep things moving in the right direction..
Seriously, Wonder Woman looks like a CLAMP manga character, Superman and Aquaman look like they stepped out of dragonball z or Fist of the North Star, skinny characters look like Aeon Flux and Batman looks like some bad cosplay.The animation itself is good but could be better.
Accepting it for what it is, Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is a solid entry in DC's animated movie library.
For those who read the comics, we all know where this would be heading.Even if DC cannot get their shared live action movie continuity going, I'd settle for animation.
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is the newest film from DC animation studios based on the comics crossover event Flashpoint by Geoff Johns and artist Andy Kubert.
This is some of the best on screen Flash action sequences ever and its about time we get a film feature of another character than Batman or Superman.
Despite the questionable title, Justice League: Flashpoint (which is what it should of been named) ranks among the best of the DC animated movies and should most definitely please fans of the material and characters.
I've always been a die-hard batman fan who sees the rest of the justice league as merely there to supplement his awesomeness, so I gave little regard to movies focused on other JL members.
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is based of the graphic novel of the same name and it is one of the most well known story line of the scarlet speedster and this is together with Rebirth ,the stories which the nowadays comic readers know the Flash.
The movies by no means a kids film, definitely for at least teen ages for it has graphic scenes and images that are not for the faint of heart.To the story Barry Alen after he goes back in time and change an event, he now is up against with a world at the brink of Armagedon and he tries to return back to his time line in order to save the world.
The characters are amazing and the movies design were so good that one year later ,when CW was making the series Flash use the flick's design as a bases and the result speak for themselves.A great think also is that we have a DC film in which Batman isn't the main character and I am thankful for that.
So to see a good movie in which someone else takes the lead is both enjoyable and a bit of a relief ,because sometimes I fear that Batman is the only character worth adapting from the DC universe.
This is my first time watching an animated movie based on DC Comics characters outside the Batman movies which I love, and this was a pretty darn good one!I have watched the animated series Justice league and therefore only knew The Flash as a comic relief kind of person.
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is incredible DC animated film about Flash creating a paradox timeline which he finds himself in a war that it is a torn alternate timeline and teams up with alternate versions of his fellow heroes to return home and restore the timeline.
The Flashpoint Paradox was the second animated film I saw in the Justice League franchise and I really had fun with it.
It starts with learning a bit more about The Flash, like someone killed his mother when he was a little kid and for her birthday anniversary her creates ultimate time line and he changes everything and he creates a dark world where the war between Aquaman's Atlantis and Wonder Woman's Amazons rules and he has to go back in his world and change all that.
Superman, Cyborg, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Aquaman saves all the villains when Reverse-Flash strapped bombs on them, they saved 1000 innocent people and they didn't hurt anyone, none was harmed I love that.
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is a direct-to-video animated film adaptation of the 2011 comic book crossover "Flashpoint" by Geoff Johns and Andy Kubert.
The film also sees actors reprising roles from other DC Animated properties; actors including Kevin Conroy as Bruce Wayne / Batman, Nathan Fillion as Hal Jordan / Green Lantern, Ron Perlman as Deathstroke, Dana Delany as Lois Lane, Vanessa Marshall as Princess Diana / Wonder Woman and Dee Bradley Baker as Etrigan.10/10 Grade: Bad Ass Seal Of Approval Studio: Warner Bros.
I didn't read many of the comics but I am huge fan of all DC animated movies and series especially when it is served in the Justice League package.
It might even creep out some people when they see their favorite characters slaughter the innocent and each other left and right in a completely non-heroic fashion.The story is epic and fully loaded with action and many of our beloved heroes and villains (even supporting characters!) make a brief or longer cameo dependent on their role in the movie.This was a refreshing addition but I don't know whether they did this movie so violent on purpose or just because this is the new pop culture norm (i.e. Dark Knight, Man of Steel etc...).I just hope this wont go out of control because I also like the fun and uplifting stories where the heroes are heroes and the villains are villains.Overall a very solid 7/10 for me definitely worth to watch.P.S. Adapt Blackest Night already!!!.
When i started watching this movie i was expecting a good animation movie because DC animated films have a reputation for meeting most comic book and superhero fans expectations.But little did i know that instead of having just an good time i was going to have the most spectacular time i have ever had from watching a animated film based om superheroes.the movie is as dynamic as its main protagonist The Flash and never becomes dull for one moment,kind of like The Flash.The main characters and their personalities are portrayed beautifully.Even when there is normal conversations going on between fight scenes the excitement never goes down.And when the fighting is shown you can truly feel the thrill of the battle.As for people who think animated superhero films are for kids they may think differently after seeing the combat in this film.As for the story itself i think its kind of simple in nature but never becomes dull.The animation is quite good in my opinion.
When time travel allows a past wrong to be righted for The Flash and his family, the ripples of the event prove disastrous as a fractured, alternate reality now exists where a Justice League never formed, and even Superman is nowhere to be found.
This might be based on some famous Flash story or graphic novel of the flash like some of the other DC animated films I may have mentioned and I'm guessing DC fans(including me now) have seen it and it has the one thing that I'm hearing BVS(Batman V Superman:Dawn of Justice) doesn't have and that's the fun.
This movie is a lot of fun to sit through I don't generally go into too much depth with animated films especially ones like this where it's straight to DVD, so I'll end the review by saying that I hope this is what the DC Extended Universe is and I will most certainly think about this feature along with Grant Gustin's Flash when we see Ezra Millers, I'm giving Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox a four and a half out of five..
I am not overly keen on superheroes in general, and sat down to watch "Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox" because I had the chance and it was available at hand, and I had some spare time to pass.The story concept was good, as it is always nice to see a "what if..." take on something that is already established.
And the storyboard creators here did a good job with the telling of the story.There is a good amount of action and fighting in "Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox", which makes it sort of worth while to sit through.However, my biggest concern with this movie was the animation style and the art style.
To me, this is entirely middle-of-the-road with nothing special about it, besides for how hyper-violent it is at times.Basic plot is that Flash has accidentally changed the time-line because of his selfish need to save his mother, and now the world is at war, everything is wrong, and he has to put it right.I will say that the animation is pretty great here, some of the best that the DC Animated Movies have done.
And as for Wonder Woman's face, good god I have no idea what the designers were going for there, it's just bizarre, with the tiniest mouth imaginable, and massive yet dead-looking eyes.The plot has been done many times before in other films and shows, especially with superheroes.
I personally think DC is killing it in the animated movie department so my hopes were pretty high.This is one of the best Justice League animated films they've produced.
Based off of Detective Comics' Flashpoint crossover event, Justice League the Flashpoint Paradox is a "what-if" story about an alternate timeline that the Flash (Barry Allen) inadvertently creates through the deed of saving his mother who was killed in the regular timeline.
In this timeline Barry Allen is no longer the Flash, Bruce Wayne was killed which motivated his father to assume the role of Batman while his mother becomes the Joker, Cyborg becomes this timeline's most celebrated "boyscout" (a la Superman), speaking of which Kal El was caught by the government and sealed off from the world leading him to never become Superman, leaving Cyborg to lead the remaining heroes willing to stand against the apocalypse of World War III that resulted from Aquaman and Wonder Woman's war.Did you get all that?
Jay Oliva, the same director of the two-part animated adaptation of Frank Miller's "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns" does this time another intense and well made comic book adaptation, which balances very well the tragedy and bleakness with all the exciting elements of superhero stories.what starts just like another adventure for Flash and the Justice League becomes a living nightmare for the former, once he wakes up in a different time-line created by one alteration done in past events, which will be the cause of many unexpected changes...Most of them for worse.I won't reveal more plot details in order to don't spoil the many surprises it has.
Instead of that, I prefer to say that it is much more unpredictable and complex than somebody could expect at first sight, being in many ways darker than all the previous DC animated films (including the two parts of "The Dark Knight Returns") but it is also very interesting to watch from beginning to end.Personally, I liked the anime-influenced character designs, and I think that the animation style was appropriate for the mood of the story, making a very good contrast between bright colors and somber atmospheres.
DC Comics definitely hits its stride with "Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox." Never have I been more impressed with an animated adaptation of a comic book story arc than I am with this spectacular straight-to-DVD movie.
"Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox" begins to unravel when he tries to fit too many extraneous Easter eggs and backstories from the individual books published outside of the main graphic novel into 81 minutes.Krieg takes the source material from "The World of Flashpoint: Batman," The World of Flashpoint: Superman," and "The World of Flashpoint: Green Lantern" and tries to add too much depth to the alternate universe story lines of these characters.
Krieg does do a good job fleshing out the Aquaman and Wonder Woman conflict which acts as the backdrop of the tale."Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox" is definitely rated PG-13.
The artists of the film also enjoy drawing Wonder Woman's butt bursting out of her costume.Although it has its problems, I consider "Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox" to be a big step forward for the DC animated features.
Major characters, who are damned well near invincible in regular stories, are killed with impunity in this alternate time-line because, hey, it doesn't count.Some very good voice-work, including Nathan Fillion as the Green Lantern and Kevin Conroy as Batman.
Flash, 20 years after his mother's death, suddenly gets REALLY worked up about it again and after saving the day with a filler action sequence (easily the best in the movie, but there purely for the trailer) he decides, without warning, to suddenly know how to travel time and stop the criminal scum from reaching his house.
Flashpoint was a 2011 crossover comic revolving around Barry Allen/The Flash going back in time to prevent his mother's murder, unaware of the consequences that would be in store (SPOILERS AHEAD):1.)Bruce would be murdered instead of his parents, Martha would suffer an emotional breakdown and would become the Joker, and Thomas Wayne would become Batman.2.) Kal-El would never meet the Kents, and would spend his life in a lab.3.) The Atlanteans and the Amazons would be at war with each other, destroying the world along the way.4.) The Flash wouldn't have his super-speed.All of the details from the comic were adapted beautifully, the acting was done perfectly, and this is the best DC animated film since The Dark Knight Returns..
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is more of a Flash film than a Justice League movie.
Green Lantern isn't Hal Jordan, Deathstroke is part of a gang of mercs, Aquaman and Wonderwoman are having a full out war, Cyborg is working for the government, Bruce Wayne is dead and instead his father Thomas Wayne is Batman and his mom is Joker, Superman was found by the government instead of the Kents, Shazam is with a bunch of other kids who kind of have powers, and The Flash doesn't exist.
This movie takes the original comic that all Flash fans love and turned it into an animated masterpiece, and even extended a bit of the lore revealing that Aquaman and Wonderwoman were in a relationship before Aquaman was revealed to have a wife and Wonderwoman thinking he's cheating kills her, basically starting their whole war.
No explanation for such a startling change in character is given, it is "just so", a consequence of Flash's tinkering with time, which has somehow caused ripples to spread out.This is quite different to say the classic story of the JL TV series "A Better World" where the Justice League is turned into a controlling police force.
The story is a good one about Flash going back in time where his mother's death never happened, and how that changed everything for the worst instead of the better.
The voice acting in this film was amazing, especially Michael B Jordan as Cyborg, and as usual listening to Kevin Conroy as batman is music to my ears.the character designs were good, I felt that Cyborgs suit could have looked better though.So The Flashpoint Paradox is a good film and lived up to the comic, as always WB animation did a great job with this film, whether you are a DC or Marvel fan, this is a must watch!.
Even though this is a Justice League movie, its more of a Flash and Batman story and doesn't define Flash as the comic side character like the usual norm.
Justice League: The Flashpoint Paradox is a fast-paced action film with all the superhero battles fans of the genre could want.
A violent, quick moving plot and good voice acting help it overcome an at times weak script.The film follows the Flash (Barry Allen version), who suddenly wakes up in an alternate universe where he is not a superhero, Superman and the Justice League do not exist, Aquaman and Wonder Woman are at war, and Batman is even scarier than usual.