Eye Candy #400 - "Justice League - Crisis on Two Earths"

Justice League-Crisis on Two Earths:  This animated stand-alone film is based on the graphic novel “Earth 2” and other classic Justice League stories from DC Comics.  The Earth-2 of the title is a place reversed from our own earth - good is evil, right is wrong.  The Justice League is mirrored the evil Crime Syndicate, a group of super-powered criminals who rule the world.  Lex Luthor, instead of being a diabolical villain, is Earth-2’s greatest superhero.  He flees his world to Earth-1 to recruit the help to save his planet from the Crime Syndicate before they unleash a weapon that could destroy the multiverse.  Much more straightforward than the graphic novel (the “physics” of the graphic novel about what can or can’t happen on each world are completely gone, which is unfortunate as that was one of the neater things about the story), the animation here is smooth.  The voice talent includes name actors like James Woods (Owlman),  Mark Harmon (Superman), Chris Noth (Luthor), William Baldwin, and Gina Torres, though I wish Kevin Conroy was here as Batman.  A pleasant enough time-waster though I think the casual viewer wouldn't enjoy it as much as someone with a higher than normal interest in comic books (they may miss all the minor characters).  Woodchuck sez, "Worth a look."