The DC animated movies have been a... mixed bag. There are only two or three I can think of that I genuinely enjoyed. Some were pathetic teen pandering, some were genuinely very good, some were experimental with a mixed rate of success, some were just plain bad, some were boring and some shit on the comics they were based on. But you get the idea.
Doom is based on a comic book arc named 'Tower of Babel' - which I have never read so I know nothing about, so how well this animated feature compares to its comic counterpart, I have no idea.
The opening credits give us a run down of the superheroes, their powers and secret identities. But really, did we really need this? Who would be watching this, who doesn't already know who the heroes are? I'm just happy they replaced Kyle with Hal.
The censoring in this film is strange. It's much more violent than your usual cartoon, but also almost completely bloodless. And I know it's just blood but a lot of the tension is lost when they say 'your injuries are severe' and all they have is a ripped tshirt. I mean the thing seems to get increasingly more bloody as they go, which is weird in itself, but there are scenes at the start 'you're bleeding all over my floor' with no blood at all and later blood is flying everywhere for the most unecessary of things, I just don't get it!
The animation here is disappointing. It isn't bad so much, it's fast and fluid, the action in places is absolutely epic and for the most part the character designs are good, but it's often rife with QUALITY and just looks rather cheap. You can probably see that from the screen grabs. I expected much better, since for the most part these DC Features have been a spectacle of great animation.
So basically the story is as simple as this, an evil justice league is formed to take out the existing justice league. Okay, it is more complicated than that, but it's better to just watch it than have me tell you. But what I will say, Mirror Master broke in and stole things from the Batcave so easily, why has no one else done it if it is that easy? This actually sums up a lot of the movie, the way each Leaguer is taken down is rather...uninspiring, all the heroes seem to go down so easily you're just left thinking, why hasn't someone done this already? Still, I enjoyed the twist which I won't spoil. And what a sequel bating ending!
So do I recommend this? It's the little things that stop this being truly great, the way the Leaguers were taken down just wasn't epic enough for me, the strange censorship was irritating and the animation was lacklustre but despite all this, JLD was still good fun and is still worth a watch but this is a rather average entry into the DC Feature list.
Think About It!
-Locke
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