Lego Justice League-Attack of the Legion of Doom! (Blu-ray) (2015)

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General		Extras
Category	Animation	Featurette-Making Of Trailer
Rating
Year Of Production	2015
Running Time	77:01
RSDL / Flipper	No/No	Cast & Crew
Start Up	Ads Then Menu
Region Coding	4	Directed By	None Given
Studio Distributor	Roadshow Home Entertainment	Starring	None Given
Case	?
RPI	?	Music	None Given

Video		Audio
Pan & Scan/Full Frame	None	English DTS HD Master Audio 5.1 French Dolby Digital 5.1 German Dolby Digital 5.1 Spanish Dolby Digital 5.1 Catalan Dolby Digital 5.1 Danish Dolby Digital 5.1 Finnish Dolby Digital 5.1 Norwegian Dolby Digital 5.1
Widescreen Aspect Ratio	1.78:1
16x9 Enhancement
Video Format	1080p
Original Aspect Ratio	1.78:1	Miscellaneous
Jacket Pictures	No
Subtitles	English for the Hearing Impaired French German Catalan Korean Spanish Danish Finnish Icelandic Norwegian Swedish	Smoking	No
		Annoying Product Placement	No
		Action In or After Credits	No

     The recent Lego Movie was a marvellous film, inventive, funny, exciting and different. My review of that film can be found here. I hoped this made for TV/home entertainment movie would at least be in the same postcode in terms of quality. It is not. Unfortunately this tries so hard to be full of snappy one-liners but virtually none of them hit the mark. It is all colour and movement with little in the way of wit, story or quality voice acting. I came away really disappointed however, to be fair, my pre-teen boys were happy with it, enjoying the silly jokes and fast moving action and they are I presume the core audience.

     The story focused on the Justice League featuring Superman, Batman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Wonder Woman and Cyborg. They are happily defeating any enemies that come their way with the baddies like Lex Luthor, Grod, Sinestro, Black Manta, Cheetah and Captain Cold all struggling on their own to get any crimes committed. Luthor decides that they need to co-operate to be able to fight the Justice League. After a Wipeout style selection process, their original team is decided and they set out to perpetrate crime starting with a nuclear facility. Of course, the Justice League fight back to ensure the world's safety.

     The animation here is of good quality without the stunning work from the Lego Movie. The voice cast is pretty uninspiring although Luke Skywalker himself, Mark Hamill does do a couple of the voices. The real problem here is the writing; it lacks imagination and it really just boils down to loads of silliness (rather than humour) and a clichéd story. There is no drama or menace involved and the ending is pretty obvious.

     This movie is really hard to recommend, although if your kids are into Lego and the DC super heroes there is something here for them.

Video

     This video transfer is excellent with no issues at all to report. The colour and clarity are excellent in pristine 1080p.The film is presented in the OAR of 1.78:1.

     Subtitles are available in English for the hearing impaired which are clear and easy to read. There are other subtitle streams in French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Korean, Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian and Swedish.

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Audio

     The soundtrack is good without really showing off what a track presented in DTS HD-MA 5.1 can really achieve. There are alternate Dolby Digital 5.1 tracks in French, German, Spanish, Catalan, Danish, Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish. The dialogue is clear and clean at all times, the music does its job and the surround speakers provide suitable immersion without really doing anything spectacular. The subwoofer supports the music.

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     A small set of extras.

Menu

     The menu features music.

Click, Zap, Boom! Creating the Sound Design (19:51)

     An interesting featurette focused on the sound design and Foley work done to create the sounds of the characters and action. Worthwhile but probably a little long.

Trailers

     Trailers for two other DC animated titles.

    The Region A version seems to be exactly the same. Buy Local.

    The video quality is excellent.

    The audio quality is good.

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