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Justice League: Doom, a review by addicted2dvd

Justice League: Doom: Two-Disc Special Edition (2012/United States) Warner Home Video Director: Lauren Montgomery Writing: Dwayne McDuffie (Writer) Length: 77 min. Rating: Rated PG-13 : Sequences of Violent Action Video: Widescreen 1.78:1 Audio: English: Dolby Digital: 5.1, French: Dolby Digital: 5.1, Spanish: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Portuguese: Dolby Digital: 2-Channel Stereo, Thai: Dolby Digital: 5.1 Subtitles: English, Portuguese, Spanish, Thai

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Stars:
Kevin Conroy as Batman
Tim Daly as Superman
Susan Eisenberg as Wonder Woman
Nathan Fillion as Green Lantern
Carl Lumbly as Martin Manhunter
Michael Rosenbaum as Flash 

Plot:
The Justice League consists of Earth's finest Super heroes and protectors of humanity. But in the mind of the Dark Knight, it contains potentially the most dangerous people on the planet. Over time, Batman has compiled top-secret contigency plans should any of them go rogue. When these files are stolen by a rising group of super villains, the Justice League embarks on a collision course that will test the very fabric of their alliance. With a steller voice cast headed by Kevin Conroy, Tim Daly and Nathan Fillion, this thrilling DC Universe Animated Original adventure will challange what you know about the Justice League as well as redefine what heroes are made of!

Extras:

• Bonus Trailers
• Featurettes
• 2 Bonus Cartoons
• Sneak Peek: Superman vs. The Elite

I am sure you all are not surprised... but I just couldn't wait to watch this movie. I have always enjoyed the superhero animated movies. And this one is no different. I enjoyed every moment of this story. I especially enjoyed that this story has the Legion of Doom in it... as that is something I enjoyed every Saturday morning as a kid while watching the Super Friends. So I liked having a sort of nod towards that. This story did confuse me a little about Wonder Woman. It was like they couldn't decide if they wanted the version that could fly or not. In one scene they had her in her invisible plane and using a line to pull her up to the hovering invisible plane. Yet in another scene they had her flying. So I do wish they would have went one way or another with that. But that is ok... it didn't take away much from the story for me. For this being a 2-Disc Special Edition, there really isn't all that many extras offered here. Though they do have a nice 36min featurette on the late Dwyane McDuffie. There is also 2 episodes of Justice League... but that isn't a very big deal... especially if you already have the series in your collection. But either way... this is a good animated movie that I am happy I have in my collection!




(From The Movies from Within My Lifetime: 2012 Edition on March 8th, 2012)

The Time Machine, a review by Tom

Title: The Time Machine
Year: 1960
Director: George Pal
Rating: FSK-12
Length: 98 Min.
Video: Anamorphic Widescreen 1.78
Audio: English: Dolby Digital 5.1, German: Dolby Digital Mono, Spanish: Dolby Digital Mono
Subtitles: Croatian, Czech, Danish, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish

Stars:
Rod Taylor
Alan Young
Yvette Mimieux
Sebastian Cabot
Tom Helmore

Plot:
Here Today, Gone to tomorrow. When George (Rod Taylor) sits at the controls of his new creation, he has all the time in the world. He's invented a Time Machine that whisks him from 1899 to war ravaged moments of the 20th century and into 802701. In that far off era, passive eloi face a grim future as prey to the glow-eyed subterranean morlocks... unless the time-traveling stranger from the past intervenes.

Awards:

Academy Award	1960	Won	Best Special Effects	Gene Warren, Tim Baar (Visual Effects)
Hugo Award	1961	Nominated	Best Dramatic Presentation

Extras:
Featurettes
Scene Access
Trailers

A classic time-travel movie. I always have enjoyed this one. For its time it had great special effects for the scenes the time-travellor made his journeys.
The one thing I didn't like so much (which has been changed compared to the book) is the fact, that the Elois can talk. In this even in English.

Rating:

(From Tom's Time-Travel Movie Reviews on October 24th, 2009)

"Due South" marathon, a review by Tom

1.06 Chinatown (1994-10-26)
Writer: Paul Haggis (Created By), David Cole (Writer)
Director: Lyndon Chubbuck
Cast: Paul Gross (Constable Benton Fraser), David Marciano (Detective Ray Vecchio), Beau Starr (Lt. Harding Welsh), Daniel Kash (Detective Louis Gardino), Tony Craig (Detective Jack Huey), Catherine Bruhier (Elaine), Lu Yu (Mr. Lee), Joel de la Fuente (Charlie Wong), Alex Carter (Agent Ford), Tsai Chin (Mrs. Lee), Michael Hong (David Lee), Simon Sinn (Thomas Yao), Henry Chan (Phillip Chin), Mark Melymick (Agent Deeter), Ho Chow (Jimmy)

Another good episode. The first appearence of the two FBI agents who interfere with Fraser and Ray. And Dief making Fraser "pay and pay and pay..."

Rating:

(From "Due South" marathon on July 2nd, 2009)