"Justice League" (2017)

I had the entire cinema to myself which made this movie all the more enjoyable. It deftly ties together a lot of characters and plot points and gently introduces several new ones. The music is great, incorporating the best of what’s come before (including a couple of cues from a long way back.)

The plot is the usual old nonsense - big angry dude wants to end the world - but the point seems to be about showing us everybody’s reaction to what’s going on. All the main characters get at least one great moment and the secondary characters get handled well enough to make me interested in seeing them again.

There’s humour, action, heart and a lot of fun in this movie. It’s short by modern standards too, but it clipped along at a nice pace that didn’t feel rushed to me.

Steppenwolf could easily have been played by a human being in prosthetics and he lost a great deal of personality due to the CGI rendering. It was good enough in parts, but it’s going to age quickly - and badly.

On the whole, it was tremendous fun. Do stay until the very, very end of the credits too, it’s worth the wait!

I give it 4 pitchforks out of 5.