I really had no interest in watching this movie after the bullshit they did with the last one last year. I had avoided the commercials and knew very little of what it was about. The idea that the two greatest superheroes in the DC universe would go head to head and that Superman would end up dead just seemed ridiculous. The we had to endure the same bullshit with the Avengers when half sided with Captain America and half sided with Iron Man, why break up the team?
The only thing that kept me mildly interested was that newest of hotties, Gal Gadot. She is a wonderful Wonder Woman, and I used to enjoy Linda Carter back in the cheesy 70's edition. Gal makes the character sexy and in control, yet as powerful as any of the supermen on the screen. The new additions were interesting on their own merits. The Flash was played by a younger kid, who looked like a newbie trying to fit in with some of the greatest heroes, Aquaman, who they finally got right, I think. Instead of him looking geeky like in the Saturday morning cartoon version, he looked muscular and good looking. Instead of commanding the fish like he used to in the cartoon, they (there are other aqua people) can manipulate the water around them. There was a third new guy joining the team, Cyborg, which I had not noticed, but in this day and age, he makes sense. He has been somehow infected by one of the square power sources that the bad guy is looking for through his dad who is some sort of scientist. The kid starts out as human but the infection has slowly been making him a robot.
The bad guy is called Steppenwolf and he is "the world ender". He is some sort of god, and his mom was Chaos. He had tried to take over the Earth 5000 years ago but the humans fought alongside the aquamen and the Amazons and other beings at the time. Steppenwolf retreated via help from his mom to wait for his chance when the Earth was weaker. With Superman recently dying, hope was missing, and Steppenwolf saw it as an opportunity to attack.
As he retreated the first time, his power source was taken and broken into three pieces, the amazonians took one, the aquamen, took another piece and humans took the third. He showed up and pretty easily defeated the amazons even though they put their lives on the line. It was the same thing with the aquamen, once he knew where to go, he just showed up and took it. Humans had rediscovered it recently and that is how Cyborg was born and through serendipity they were able to use it to give Superman a boost of life and get him going again.
It took a minute, but Superman coming back to life made the circle complete, now they would be ready to fight. I didn't expect to like the movie, they tend to take themselves so seriously, compared to the Avengers, but the Flash was funny as a newbie hero, Aquaman took some funny stabs at Batman and Batman shot back asking innocently enough if he could actually talk to fish. Wonder Woman was just the shiny bow on top that made the package that much prettier to look at.
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