Justice League: 10 Over-Looked Positives

At long last, they got the tone right. Justice League's mostly dark but also fantastical and occasionally witty tone is, in this writer's opinion, a tone the DCEU should move forward with. It's the right balance between the dark themes of the franchise and the- well, let's be honest here- preposterous plots.

A largely comic tone would no doubt, in most fans' eyes, make the franchise too similar to Marvel, while the oppressively dark vibes have already been proved not to work. The earlier DCEU movies often borrowed from the Nolan Batman films in tone, but it needs to be acknowledged and accepted that those films were crime dramas that were firmly rooted in the real world that happened to feature a guy in a cape.

The dark tones suited those films; it doesn't suit the fantasy-based DCEU films at all.

Justice League has a tone which allows the franchise to stand on its own and gets it out of the shadow of Nolan's Batman trilogy. Despite all the complaints about tone inconsistency, in general at least the film is actually fun and the tone of Justice League has evidently worked on many audience members - given its solid 7.3 rating on IMDb.