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Personally, The Justice League: Comfort and Joy is one of those holiday specials that is very hard to sit through!
When it starts out, it seems like the justice league are decorating a giant orb for some weird squid-like Furby creatures who are about to crash into earth.
I'm not kidding, this is really how they started this crapfest out. But what pisses me off, and I hate to spoil it for you, but there is NO BATMAN in this entire episode; there isn't even a mention of where he is or what he's doing for the holidays.
After watching this I realized this isn't a holiday special so much as one of those filler episodes. where the writers and animators take a vacation and let their interns do all the work.
I mean, for [frick]s sake the Green Lantern's snowboarding and Hawk Girl's getting so drunk she gets into a bar fight.
And I kid you not, a Howard the Duck shows up dressed like a rapper shitting his pants.
But that's the least of this episode's problems. The scenes of the Flash at the children's home look really poorly animated, leaving you feeling like you're watching the first season of The Simpsons back when they were on the Tracy Ullman show.
In this episode there are 3 plots with only one that truly makes the story worth watching.
If you know anything about the Martian Manhunter,
You know that he is the last of his kind which makes the story pretty [frick]ing sad if you ask me.
Poor Jon Jonz doesn't fit in anywhere, and to make matters worse the damn cat doesn't even like him.
But enough about the good parts of the story. What kind of Jerk would I be If I didn't bitch a little bit?
What really sucks the most about this episode is Hawk Girl and Green Lantern travel to another planet and get hammered drunk and start a bar fight and pass out.
There's not much to see here, but what I noticed is that in this special heroes become villians and villians become heroes?
Let me explain better...
Later on, the Flash goes in search of a pants-shitting Howard Duck and when he finds one,
the Ultra Humanite ends up breaking the damn thing,
What baffles me the most is that Flash just gives up the fight, and since his toy is broke he is pretty much like KILL ME! JUST KILL ME! So after getting knocked out, the Flash wakes up to his toy rebuilt. It's actually pretty funny and heartwarming because when they get back to the children's home the Flash calls him freaky the snowman :P
I'm serious, this has to be the saddest holiday special I have ever seen
Because the Flash then takes Humanite straight to jail where he spends his holidays alone with a generic aluminum tree. And after Flash leaves he sneaks around the corner to pretty much laugh at him behind his back.
It's one thing that really pissed me off about this episode- he clearly did a good deed, but is rewarded with a jail sentence...
But back to the redeeming quality of this episode: Forget about Clark Kent cause he's running around like an idiot trying to see through his lead lined presents,
The true story of this episode is watching the emotionless J'on Jonzz discover the gift of the holidays. It is something that really makes this episode special. If you ignore the most ridiculous moments and pay attention to the man hunter you will see that under the surface this is very emotional holiday special. Perhaps even one of the saddest.
Seeing the ending scene sent chills up my arm because you know the martian man hunter is looking up at the stars, missing his friends and family from his home world.
Next time we're going to take a look at another Xmas Classic "X-Men Evolution: On Angel's Wings."