On the main page, my co-blogger Patrick mentioned that Wyoming was voting on a contingency plan for “Just In Case”.
This strikes me as one of the most eminently sensible plans that any given government could produce. Without getting *TOO* political, whenever I hear a breathless story about how the federal government has a contingency plan for attacking Canada or for what if Iceland decides to invade, my immediate emotional outcome is not one of outrage but supreme unsurprise.
Of *COURSE* we have a plan if Iceland decides to invade. This is one of the things that we pay the government for.
I mean, wouldn’t you be surprised if Iceland invades and, whoops!, it turns out that the generals in the pentagon making six figures a year never even once considered such a thing to the point where they were willing to put plans in the basement?
Well, I sure as heck would be.
Which brings me to why, maybe, it wouldn’t be such a good job to have these plans lying around.
The new Justice League movie, Doom
The medium version of the movie review is this: Vandal Savage is back and he has recreated the Legion of Doom to take on The Justice League in the new movie from DC.
The long version of the movie review is this: Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Martian Manhunter, Flash, Green Lantern, and Cyborg are back… and they’re fighting Vandal Savage as well as an arch-nemises of each of the names mentioned above and the plan to take on the Justice League is surprisingly well-put together. This movie brings us Vandal Savage at his best, the voice actors are at their best, and the script writers actually had to sweat a little to bring this story to where it is.
If you remember watching the Superfriends on Saturday Morning, you should get this and be amazed at how far we’ve come. If you have been keeping up with DC’s direct-to-DVD/Blu-Ray offerings to this point, you should definitely get this and be amazed at how far we’ve come.
The short version of the movie review is this: Kevin Conroy is playing Batman.
Here’s the trailer:
So that’s my recommentation for you this week.
Too bad for Wyoming my “just in case” plan involves taking over Wyoming.
Well, I certainly hope they don’t end up having Randall Cravitz playing both sides against each other whereupon the bad guys are like “Duh, we gotta get SuperLantern and WonderBat!” What follows are both teams working together on a united cause then they go out for frosty chocolate milkshakes.
Even hinting at Hanna Barbera and everything from eighties cartoons makes me cautious regardless of your ironclad recommendations.
P.S. “irregardless” HI MARIBOU
This is a good callback. Not a bad callback.
And Wacky Races was the best show ever.
“Wacky Races was the best show ever.”
Amen, brother.
Imagine the world without Muttley. Greyer, dimmer, hardly worth considering, eh?
HI SPIVAK.
I will get this one. I try to support the super hero movies.
The interesting thing is always “who revised these last” and “when was that”?
I’m pretty sure Canada’s plan for invading the United States involves metal blimps…
Whatever it is, it definitely doesn’t involve a fifth column. Nope. No way.
That’s a relief.
I mentioned it to Derek and he pinpointed my issues as to why I wouldn’t want to watch this the best: I have too much baggage from the original Tower of Babel story to actually like this one.
I am amused that they exchanged Aquaman for Cyborg though. I’m sure the official reason is that it fits in with the new 52 but I imagine that the real reason was that Batman’s contingency plan for Aquaman was really dumb.