Justice League: War kicked off the New 52 version of the DC Animated Universe, and now the next movie is Justice League: Throne of Atlantis, featuring the go-to source for superhero jokes himself, Aquaman. The movie pulls heavily from Geoff Johns’s New 52 Aquaman comic while making some creative diversions, most notably excising the entire second volume. While the same visual style and on-the-nose characterization from War is still present, this followup doesn’t have as big a scale or as compelling a story.
Wonderfully voiced by Matt Lanter, Arthur Curry is introduced as a normal guy who happens to have gills and the ability to win bar fights thanks to super strength and knife-proof skin. We learn quite a great deal about Arthur’s childhood and his connections to Atlantis before he ever dons the familiar orange and green outfit and starts fighting evil. The Justice League take a back seat to this development, and while it’s nice to get such great story beats for Aquaman’s origin, it sometimes leaves the League’s seven members without something meaningful to do. Justice League might be in the title, but ultimately this is an Aquaman movie.
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