Watched the new DC animated movie "Justice League: War" last night, and it really felt like a weaker version of their universe after blowing through better stuff on Netflix like "Doom" and "Batman Year One". The voices really threw me off, with the awesome Nathan Fillion replaced as Green Lantern by some guy, and the usual crew of George "Superman" Newbern and Kevin "Batman" Conroy nowhere to be found. Instead we got Wash as Superman and the guy from Life On Mars as Batman. Really off-putting. It's very very faithful to the terrible first arc of Justice League, complete with Hal Jordan being a total douchebag for some reason. Oh, and they replaced Aquaman with Shazam, which I don't get. Also, this wouldn't normally bug me, but it's REALLY violent. Like, Wonder Woman graphically murders hundreds of Parademons in some pretty scary ways and they just treat it like it's no big thing. Not to mention the League's solution to stopping Darkseid. Yikes. Definitely not for kids and it even kind of bothered me after an hour of it. Also, I didn't like how it was, I dunno, feeling entitled to certain mythologies about itself, I guess. Like Superman and Wonder Woman are flirting through the movie and we as fans are supposed to be like "Oh, hey, just like the comics!" as though this was something that's been building for years instead of popping up a few months ago because Dan Didio decided that now they're dating, even though Wonder Woman's own comic totally ignores it. The New 52 hasn't earned that kind of history yet, given they still can't decide who was actually Robin and when.
Anyway, it was mostly entertaining, but tying the animated movies to their scattershot comics universe is a huge mistake, I think. They were better off using classic versions of the characters and telling their own stories. Mild recommendation to avoid.