Teen Titans: The Judas COntract

Release Date: April 4, 2017

It it Good?

Nope. Teen Titans: The Judas Contract is not good, it’s really bad. The animation quality for all the feature length DC animated movies suck for some reason, at least since 2014. The television animation from Warner Brothers is very good but they were not able to achieve that here. Some of the detail work and textures were good on occasion, but overall the art was pretty bad. The actual animation, movement of characters, was a little better but still a little janky. If you were to compare this to Young Justice, the most recent Warner Brothers animated television show, that has a much higher quality to it.

Beyond the visuals is the story and it suffers. It seems this movie was made as an attempt to bring children back to animation since the focus is on a group of younger kids. This is executed very poorly because it takes a generic take on what probably could have been a much better story. With the inclusion and slight focus on a moody teen who just wants to be left alone, I could think of a thousand of different tropes that could have been used better here. The story is rushed at the beginning trying to include so many different subplots that it sucks. Just watching the movie is painful. It doesn’t really pick up until 35 minutes into the movie. Even when it does pick up, it is still hindered by all the subplots that it tries to maintain throughout.

The quality of the whole story is pretty poor with one character even talking about sexual attraction which seems to be a main plot point for the movie as well. There is also a hint of child sexual relations in the movie where an adult has a sexual relationship with an adult. It’s so creepy and weird that when the sexual relationship between adult characters happen it all just seems like an oversexualized bad story all together. The movie tonally is so off that most of it goes by with you scratching your head. In one scene, a girl is on edge because she is about to be attacked, but 10 seconds later she is crying and a montage of pictures flashes across the screen. How did someone being angry lead to crying then a montage of a party?

Other than the atrocious story, the voice acting is also pretty bad. Different characters have different qualities of voice acting which throws the whole movie off balance. Just another problem to throw on top of the pile of garbage this movie is.

Overall I would not recommend this to anyone to watch. If you like DC animation, I still would not recommend this movie. It’s hot garbage. I really wish that Justice League Dark was going to be the turning point for the Warner Brothers animation studio, but we just get more trash.

                                                    5/10
              A piece of wood stopped a bullet
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