The Flash (2023)

Even The Parent Trap in 1961 does a better job of duplicating its star (Hayley Mills, playing twins) than this peculiar 2023 DC exercise that randomly turns the second-versions of lead actor Ezra Miller into a weird slack-jawed cartoon - sometimes completely unnecessarily, like at times when there is only one Ezra Miller on screen! - and these NQR Polar Express doppelgangers distract from an already uninvolving Back To The Future time travel multiverse superhero origin story, one about a super-super-fast, red-lycraed Flash.

★★★☆☆

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Justice League (2017)

The Infinity War of the DCEU brings together Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, The Flash, Aquaman and someone called Cyborg to fight a bad guy called Thanos, I mean Bane, I mean Steppenwolf who is seeking the Infinity Stones, I mean the Motherstones, I mean the mother boxes that will allow him to destroy the world, and while it is not as heavyhanded as previous instalments, Justice League continues the mistakes of many previous DCEU instalments like bad editing that results in inexplicable scenes (green slime and an 'electroaxe' with no user instructions, for example), it bites off more than it can chew (couldn't Superman have just woken up on the right side of the bed?), and it features banter between its heroes that just isn't as fast and fun as that of the heroes' Marvel counterparts.

★★★☆☆

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