Justice League Crisis on Two Earths - Doing Them Justice  
| With all the effort to bring a live action Justice League movie to the screen, one wonders why they haven't just turned it over to Bruce Timm and his talented group of fanboys and girls. They keep turning out these great comic book inspired animated films that are on par with great live-action action films. They've done it again with Justice League Crisis on Two Earths.
They've taken the classic story, told time and again in comics, of pitting the world's greatest heroes against those of a parallel world whose Justice League is evil. Comic writer McDuffie's take on this familiar idea is relatively standard but comprehensive tale that incorporates all that these stories tend to encapsulate. In other words it is the ideal screen adaptation. Now why can't they seem to do this in live action?
But maybe they don't need to. This is a great film that is fun and well worth picking up. For fans of the comic, it offers a chance to see these characters interact on screen. For neophytes, it offers a great example of why Justice League fans are Justice League fans. The fun twists and the great battle scenes outweigh McDuffie's limited dialogue. His writing makes everyone sound like teenagers in highschool.
The best part of the film is when each hero meets their evil doppelganger in battle. Watching the Flash try to outrun his evil twin and so on is remarkably entertaining. The film doesn't waste anytime on intros or origins (besides a moving flashback of the Martian Manhunter's history) and instead jumps right into the action. While many of the DC Animated Universe films have been far too short and rushed, Crisis feels like it's just the right length. Cutting to the chase and delivering a power punch of a story.
This is a very different take on the League than Timm's other animated Justice League film The New Frontier and it might not have be as impressive a film, but it may be more accessible and little more iconic.
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