The Anti-Monitor (the Monitor's evil counterpart) is released into the DC Multiverse and begins to destroy the different Earths that compose it. The Monitor attempts to recruit heroes from across the Multiverse to fight back.
Justice League: Crisis On Infinite Earths Part One is part of the eighth and final installment of the Tomorrowverse…yes you read that correctly, apparently the Tomorrowverse is already ending after only previously having seven installments. To say that this series wasn't rushed would be lying, it started out promising enough with the first films such as Superman: Man Of Tomorrow, Justice Society: World War II and Batman: The Long Halloween Parts 1 and 2. After that things went downhill and even got progressively worse. Say what you will about the DCAU despite the quality of a lot of the installments there was 16 movies and there was some sort of plan.
Justice League: Crisis On Infinite Earths Part One really does not feel like this big finale at all, while there are still two more parts that are coming this year. A lot of the movie is being introduced to characters who either haven't seen in awhile, or haven't seen at all in this universe. There's a couple throwbacks to the DCAU which is nice I guess but that's not nearly enough to really matter.
The voice acting is decent enough here, there isn't a performance that particularly stands out unfortunately, the animation is definitely a hit or miss. There's times where it looks fine and then others where you can really tell they went with the most simple and bland form of animation just to get this movie out there at the beginning of the year.
I will say there was a few character moments that did work pretty okay, the movie definitely prioritizes character over plot which I guess would be fine if a lot of the other characters had a lot more time to be fully fleshed out from previous installments. But I think the movie does an okay job with The Flash in particular as there are some genuinely touching scenes.
Overall most of the problems with this movie isn't necessarily the movie's fault, it's the completely rushed universe making a lot of these character moments not really matter to the viewer. Hopefully Part 2 is a bit better..
Justice League: Crisis On Infinite Earths Part One is available on all VOD platforms.
3/10 D-
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