Justice League : New Frontier - Blu-ray Forum

BStecke · 02-27-2008, 02:46 PM

I was going to leave this in the Netflix queue, but as soon as I read jasoncarmony's post about Circuit City's pricing I went to Best Buy and got it there.

Before I comment on the disc, I just want to say that I don't understand some people's "it's a cartoon it doesn't benefit from Blu-ray" mindset. I think this is totally untrue, and in some ways animation is a great way to show off Blu-ray.

On to the disc . . . as I'm sure you could imagine from my comments above, the film looks incredible. The thing I love about these "standard" animation films is that the picture looks like it's being drawn in fresh, glossy ink right on your screen. I did see a couple things that distracted me, though. In the opening (I watched it yesterday, so forgive me that I don't remember what logo it is exactly) there's a logo that is all red, which looks like it has some "jaggies" going on. No big deal, it's a logo, and it's not terrible. I also noticed the same thing, in some scenes, in the Martian Manhunter's eyes. Again, no big deal, but it's there.

I was kind of underwhelmed by the audio. One thing I like about animation (particularly Pixar) films is that the audio mixes are usually fairly aggressive when it comes to having the sound coming from all over the place, and I didn't get that from this. It's not bad, and I was very pleased to see that it has a TrueHD track, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped.

As far as the film itself, I thought it was quite good. While I don't like the design of The Batman that they used (yeah, I know it's 50's style, but I never could get into the gloves that were a different color from anything else on the costume), I thought all the characters were voiced well and the style was true to the comics. I appreciated the fact that they went with the PG-13 rating and there is definitely some stuff you're not used to seeing in DCU animation.

Overall . . . I definitely recommend it, and I hope DC keeps coming out with quality animated films. I was worried about these after Marvel's releases, but I think these DC films outdo everything Marvel did in every way. Can't wait for Gotham Knight!

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02-27-2008, 02:46 PM	#4
BStecke Blu-ray Knight Member since:Jun 2007 4K collection:182 Blu-ray collection:567 DVD collection:1 Digital collection:1 iTunes collection:1 Blu-ray reviews: 1 Trading Score:6	I was going to leave this in the Netflix queue, but as soon as I read jasoncarmony's post about Circuit City's pricing I went to Best Buy and got it there. Before I comment on the disc, I just want to say that I don't understand some people's "it's a cartoon it doesn't benefit from Blu-ray" mindset. I think this is totally untrue, and in some ways animation is a great way to show off Blu-ray. On to the disc . . . as I'm sure you could imagine from my comments above, the film looks incredible. The thing I love about these "standard" animation films is that the picture looks like it's being drawn in fresh, glossy ink right on your screen. I did see a couple things that distracted me, though. In the opening (I watched it yesterday, so forgive me that I don't remember what logo it is exactly) there's a logo that is all red, which looks like it has some "jaggies" going on. No big deal, it's a logo, and it's not terrible. I also noticed the same thing, in some scenes, in the Martian Manhunter's eyes. Again, no big deal, but it's there. I was kind of underwhelmed by the audio. One thing I like about animation (particularly Pixar) films is that the audio mixes are usually fairly aggressive when it comes to having the sound coming from all over the place, and I didn't get that from this. It's not bad, and I was very pleased to see that it has a TrueHD track, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped. As far as the film itself, I thought it was quite good. While I don't like the design of The Batman that they used (yeah, I know it's 50's style, but I never could get into the gloves that were a different color from anything else on the costume), I thought all the characters were voiced well and the style was true to the comics. I appreciated the fact that they went with the PG-13 rating and there is definitely some stuff you're not used to seeing in DCU animation. Overall . . . I definitely recommend it, and I hope DC keeps coming out with quality animated films. I was worried about these after Marvel's releases, but I think these DC films outdo everything Marvel did in every way. Can't wait for Gotham Knight!

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