| Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths | |
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| Directed by | |
| Written by | Dwayne McDuffie |
| Produced by |
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| Starring | |
| Edited by | Margaret Hou |
| Music by | |
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| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths is a 2010 Americananimatedsuperhero film directed byLauren Montgomery andSam Liu and written byDwayne McDuffie.[1] It is based on the abandoned direct-to-video featureJustice League: Worlds Collide, which was intended as a bridge between theDC Animated Universe seriesJustice League andJustice League Unlimited, and reworked to act as a standalone story. It is the seventh film of theDC Universe Animated Original Movies.
The premise ofCrisis on Two Earths is borrowed from the 1964Gardner FoxJustice League of America #29–30 story entitled "Crisis on Earth-Three!" and the 2000Grant MorrisonJLA: Earth 2 graphic novel, with a heroicLex Luthor from an alternate universe coming to theJustice League's universe for help against theCrime Syndicate.
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths was released on February 23, 2010. The two-disc special editionDVD includes an animated shortfeaturing the Spectre. On August 11, 2015,Warner Home Video re-released the film in a combo pack which includes a DVD andBlu-ray copy, a digital copy, and theJLA: Earth 2 graphic novel.
A sequel,Justice League: Doom, was released in February 2012.
In analternate universe, heroic versions ofLex Luthor andJoker (called theJester) steal a device called the "Quantum Trigger" from the headquarters of theCrime Syndicate. When an alarm is tripped, the Jester sacrifices himself to allow Luthor to escape from the Syndicate. Luthor escapes to the Earth of the Justice League by activating a device that enables interdimensional travel.
The Justice League is summoned to a prison where Luthor is kept, andSuperman's X-ray vision confirms Luthor's reversed organs indicate that he is from a parallel Earth. The Justice League take the alternate Luthor to theWatchtower, where they learn of the Syndicate threat. As the Justice League debates the matter, Luthor hides the Quantum Trigger on the satellite. With the exception of Batman, the rest of the Justice League travel to Luthor's Earth.
Upon arrival, the heroes attack Syndicate targets. After a successful series of raids in which they captureUltraman, the League confrontsPresidentSlade Wilson, who releases Ultraman and explains that acceding to the Syndicate's demands saves millions of lives.Martian Manhunter, in turn, falls in love with Wilson's daughterRose.Superwoman and three of her lieutenants arrive at the League's dimension, and on the Watchtower, battle the rest of the Justice League, including Batman. They escape with the Quantum Trigger, but Batman follows them, battles Superwoman on the Syndicate's Earth and captures her. Rose learns of the Syndicate base to allow the Justice League to confront them. The League arrives at the Crime Syndicate's Moon base with Superwoman, and eventually battles the Syndicate.
Owlman, in secret, has developed a weapon, the Quantum Eigenstate Device (Q.E.D.). Believing the idea thatnothing they do can possibly matter, he teleports toEarth Prime to destroy reality. Luthor speculates that a speedster might be able to vibrate and match the Q.E.D.'s temporal vibration and open a portal. After Batman forbids Flash from doing so,Johnny Quick volunteers. Batman pursues Owlman and duels him. At the end of the fight, Batman teleports Owlman and the Q.E.D. to another uninhabited Earth, where the device detonates, killing Owlman.
Batman returns to the Syndicate's Earth, where Quick dies from the strain of acting as a vibratory conduit. President Wilson arrests the rest of the Crime Syndicate, and Martian Manhunter says goodbye to Rose to return with the Justice League. Upon returning to their Earth, Batman and Superman discuss a membership drive for the Justice League.
In 2004,Bruce Timm revealed that aDCAUdirect-to-videoJustice League feature was in development to connectJustice League andJustice League Unlimited.[7] The film was titled asJustice League: Worlds Collide. One of the objectives of the film was to explain howWonder Woman acquired her Invisible-Jet. The project was ultimately scrapped byWarner Bros.; however, in 2008, Timm stated thatJustice League: Worlds Collide could be released someday in the future.[1]
Finally,Worlds Collide was rewritten byDwayne McDuffie forDC Universe Animated Original Movies asJustice League: Crisis on Two Earths, but removing all connections with the animated series.
| Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (Soundtrack from the DC Universe Animated Original Movie) | |
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| Film score (Digital download) by | |
| Released | February 23, 2010 |
| Label | New Line Records |
| No. | Title | Length |
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| 1. | "Break In" | 3:13 |
| 2. | "Finish What the Jester Started / Main Title" | 3:24 |
| 3. | "Only Surviving Member / Police Station / Of Course We'll Help" | 3:09 |
| 4. | "Headquarters Battle" | 4:07 |
| 5. | "Battle in the Sky" | 3:59 |
| 6. | "QED Monologue / Crime Syndicate / Made Men / Flash and Jon[sic] Shipyard Battle" | 4:53 |
| 7. | "Sup and Lex Fight Jimmy and Ultraman" | 3:07 |
| 8. | "Owlman Multiverse Monologue / President Office Monologue" | 2:25 |
| 9. | "Rose Garden and Ultraman Intimidation / Superwoman Toys with Bats / Batman Pissed at Luthor / Sniper Red Archer / Owlman Gets Quantum Trigger" | 4:31 |
| 10. | "Perimeter Breach Watchtower" | 5:10 |
| 11. | "Rose and Jon Mindmeld / Owlman's End / Batman Owlman Fight" | 4:44 |
| 12. | "Moonbase Intro / Is This Just a Little Too Easy / Moonbase Battle" | 6:25 |
| 13. | "Teleport" | 3:10 |
| 14. | "John Says Goodbye / Johnny Burns Out / Cavalry" | 3:37 |
| 15. | "Ending / End Credits" | 4:04 |
| Total length: | 57:58 | |
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths received positive reviews.[8]The World's Finest stated "...the film ranks up there as one ofDwayne McDuffie's better works in the animated DC world and even though it’s reminiscent of stories we’ve seen in animation before, the brilliant work done by Moi, the directing by Sam Liu and Lauren Montgomery, and story make it more than worth watching again."[6]
It earned $8,641,856 from domestic home video sales.[9]
