DVD : Justice League Unlimited - Season One (DC Comics Classic Collection)

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Rating:

- Justice League Unlimited Season 1
Add another 50 or so members to the 7 core members of Justice League.
Write a terrific story arc mid-to-end of the season, and you have some of the best cartoons Warner Bros have ever made.
This set comes with extras, and brings the Batman/Wonder Woman romance to full fruition in "Kid Stuff" and "This little Piggy" (in which Batman sings, to persuade Circe to remove her spell which turned WW into a pig.) Is this an homage to the Muppet Show episode with Lynda Carter, where Miss Piggy became Wonder Pig? (The episode also builds on the Batman/Zatanna friendship introduced in Batman episode "Zatanna" in 1993).
Sadly the romance appears to be undone by a time travel plot in "The Once and Future Thing" pt2 in mid season (or else it's just never shown again. I did read some great online fan fiction stories which filled the gap nicely, for fans of the Batman/Wonder Woman entanglement).

New characters Green Arrow, Question, Huntress, Atom, Black Canary, Wildcat, Capt Atom, Supergirl frequent a number of the stories. You'll also see many other DC heroes, all conveniently added to the newly renamed JLU (including cameo appearances of most members of Justice Society of America, whose heyday was in the 1940s in the comics????).
If the New Gods episodes of Superman and Justice League left you wanting a focus on Mr Miracle and Big Barda, you'll get it in "The Ties that Bind". Flash teams with them on a trip to Apokalips.
Hawkgirl gradually rejoins, and Luthor's character development after his JL Season 2 pardon is interesting.
The series is wrapped up with "Epilogue" which is set several years after "Batman Beyond" and sees an adult Terry McGinnes Batman looking back on his own time with old Bruce Wayne, Justice League Unlimited (introduced in Batman Beyond: The Call), and searching for answers about his own past.
It was intended as an epilogue to all the DCAU shows, but JLU Season 2 went ahead, and that's another review.
This is great stuff.

Rating:

- Excellent
all the dvd's are excellent , their music and features in the film, very amazing.

Rating:

- JLU Season One
very nicely done. I like the Gov't. being the bad guys. It has a sense of spy/espionage theme that keeps you coming back for more. The tension that exists between the gov't.(Cadmus) and the Justice league makes it exciting. Finally six of the seven founders of the justice league do the right thing and give themselves up; while the seventh founder "Batman", faces down Amanda Waller(the head of Cadmus), and saves the League from any future attacks from Cadmus. I thought it was definately worth buying. I just wish that they would have kept the series going. When I was little the Superfriends on Saturday morning must have had 10 seasons.

Rating:

- Escapism
An escape to a time of my youth with modern flair.
Layout and design were very good and storylines interesting.
View it as it should be viewed with the wonder of a mind
looking for Heroes doing their best for what is right.
A little humor and whimsy certainly doesn't hurt.

The voice prformances are superb and seem appropreate for most of the
characters. The art work is definately better than past cartoons
(1980s) and most of today's stuff.

Rating:

- A big hit with my 5-year-old girl
My daughter is very bullish on the Justice League. It's a bit more violent than our usual fare of gentle, Japanese anime, but I think you have to give kids exposure to different types of entertainment, classic cartoons included. This is a 4-disc collection so will keep the kids happy on long car trips.

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