Title
– Justice League; Flashpoint Paradox
Language
– English
Genre-
superhero, animated
On
the anniversary of his mother's death/birthday Barry Allan (the
Flash) wakes up to find that he has lost his powers and that a war is
raging between the Atlantic's, led by Aquamarine and the
Amazon's, lead by Wonder Woman that will destroy the
world. Confused Barry goes looking for answers only to find his
mother alive and that a lot of his friend don’t know who he, or the
flash are. To try to regain his powers Barry goes to find
Batman for help only to find that it is not Bruce Wayne who is in the
role but Thomas Wayne, Bruce’s father. Thomas and Barry then
set out to recruit a group of heroes to stop the war and find out why
everything that Barry knew has now changed.
Flashpoint
Paradox, which is based on the D.C. comics miniseries Flashpoint,
could easily have become a standard ‘Time traveler tries to put
history right’ storyline but most of the film centers on the
effects the war is having on the rest of the world and the underlying
message is that no one wins in war. We see that the war is
causing suffering to anyone who is not involved in, England has been
turned into the new Amazonian homeland and we don't see any of the
original population. Most of the world are living in fear of
the Atlanteans new secret weapon and nether side consider any of the
effects their actions have on anyone else.
We
are given an interesting look at alternative versions of the D.C.
characters although I’m not too sure about the reason given for
changes made to the characters before the change in the timeline.
Overall Flashpoint Paradox is a great film and D.C. do seem to
be able to do alternative universe stories well. It was also
nice to see a D.C. story with a main character other than Batman,
Superman or Wonder woman.
I wouldn’t recommend Flashpoint Paradox for younger children as it is quite violent and some of the more well know characters do get killed off.
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