It Looks Like the ‘Justice League’ Trailer Got Sucker Punched

Fans of Zack Snyder’s big – as in large, as in HUGE – filmmaking style will no doubt be pleased as punch today. The new trailer for his DC superhero team-up movie Justice League has just been released by Warner Bros., and there’s a lot of slow-motion, a lot of macho posturing, and a lot of CGI-assisted superhero badassery.

Indeed, the new trailer looks so overtly stylized that one can’t help but think it looks reminiscent of Zack Snyder’s ambitious fantasy Sucker Punch, in which institutionalized women invented heroic archetypes for themselves in order to survive a life of systematic oppression. Of course, unless Zack Snyder has one hell of a twist awaiting us, audiences will be expected to take Justice League entirely at face value.

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Audience members looks for new information about the story Justice League is actually telling are going to be disappointed though. Just like the last trailer, this new preview focuses on Batman forming the Justice League. We do get a better look at the threat facing the planet Earth, the aliens known as “Parademons” (who are led, in the comics, by the supervillain Darkseid), and we get a better look at the action. But we already knew Parademons were going to be in the movie, and we already knew there was bound to be action in there somewhere.

The purpose of this Justice League movie seems to be relatively simple. It provides a slightly better introduction to some of the newer characters – like Cyborg, Aquaman, and the feature film version of The Flash – and it sells the audience on the idea that this movie is supposed to be a good time. Or at least, it will be a good time if you’re already a fan of Zack Snyder. (Which not everybody is.)

Check out the new preview below. Justice League arrives in theaters on November 17, 2017.

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Top Photo: Warner Bros.

William Bibbiani (everyone calls him ‘Bibbs’) is Crave’s film content editor and critic. You can hear him every week on The B-Movies Podcast and Canceled Too Soon, and watch him on the weekly YouTube series What the Flick. Follow his rantings on Twitter at @WilliamBibbiani.

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