So Bart and I went to see The Flash, a movie that does a 180 tonal shift from out-and-out comedy to muted tragedy.
But it was good fun overall, with the wonderful Michael Keaton returning as “Batman Classic” (although I also appreciated seeing Ben Affleck again as the underplayed Batman, a good angle on the character).
Sasha Calle makes a badass Supergirl (in a world — oh no! — without Superman).
And the film has a laugh-out-loud finish that Lola Burnham will particularly appreciate.
I think the multiverse concept is like time travel. The first couple of times you use it at the last minute to resurrect dead characters it can work (in the 1978 Superman and Galaxy Quest, let us say). But by the twelfth time or the 27th time, it is a hackneyed bore, a dreary deus ex machina. That is the inevitable heat death of all the universes in the multiverse. It still works in this movie, but with this and the last two Spider-Man movies, we have reached the end of the line.
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