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A fairly enjoyable movie that suffers from an overlong runtime and too many characters. This could have been a pretty solid film by trimming some of both. The plot is fine, but the multiple threats facing the heroes never properly flow together, and things slow down for some massive exposition dumps. While some of the main characters work better than others, with ten superheroes getting introduced here none of them get enough time to get fleshed out enough to really care about any of them. (And that’s not even getting into the villain’s half-hearted motivational arc.) The action scenes are solid, even though some of the characters powers aren’t as useful as others in a fight. The effects look good overall, but there’s some noticeable CG, especially on the more humanoid characters. The finale is a little too convoluted, and the film ends in too much of a cliffhanger. Besides that, there is a mid-credit and post-credit scene that may leave people scratching their heads.
** out of *****