Justice League - Season One (DC Comics Classic Collection)

Not bad. Animation was something to get use to. I have no idea why the had to make Superman and Batman look different. However the stories are good. I'm planning to buy the Season 2 and Unlimited Seasons soon.

It's great to see different characters highlighted in every episode. Comic book-wise, I've always been a Marvel fan. But the great DC cartoon that WB has been producing has brought my attention to the DC world. What I like about this product was the JL show itself. All the great written stories that I got to watch again, some along with creators' commentaries.

Where this lacks is the packaging, a 4 DVD set the designed to fit into the size of a single DVD container. This was the same way the Fantastic Four 1990s animated series was released. I don't have much of a problem with that. The only thing really bugs me is that the chapter/scene selection sucks. hitting the "next scene" button on the remote is useless. Overall you can see all the love went into the shows itself. They skimped on the way of making it a great DVD experience.

Everybody had been waiting for this series since the Batman and Superman animated series. And they started off pretty good. Unfortunately, Bruce Timm even admitted the weak points. Batman and Superman were received well right out of the starting gate, while it wasn't until Season 2 of Justice League that they got it right. But it's a harder show. The action has to be bigger. And you have seven principal characters to juggle all with distinct personalities.

All in all, though, great show. Good season. And it only gets better after this.

The storylines may be recycled, the plot never great in depth, but these cartoons are a brilliantly entertaining festival of good vs. evil. The dialog for these gems is not lacking in occasional wit, the creators realizing that a cartoon written with dialog for children is nothing but purile drivel.

In conclusion: A+ light entertainment.

The more I watch of the current crop of big-budget, over-hyped, live-action film versions of popular superheroes, the more I feverently believe that comic books and cartoons are the once-and-forever true medium for these characters. A bunch of guys and dolls in form-fitting, candy-colored underwear just play better in ink than celluloid, you know what I mean?

Anyway, this @2001 version of "Justice League" produced by Cartoon Network really gets it right: simplistic enough for kids, intelligent enough for adults, and entertaining enough for comic fans and non-fans. Don't confuse it with the goofy "SuperFriends" you watched as a kid -- or with the dark and brooding, ultraviolent graphic novels of the 80's and 90's. This is good, old-fashioned, morally unambiguous Good Guys v. Bad Guys stuff, with just a enough tongue-in-cheek wit to let you know it doesn't take itself too seriously.