We get it critic ratings whether it’s rotten tomatoes or some so called writer for whatever crappy magazine/newspaper don’t mean shit in this day and age.
@Background Human
Not to mention the worldwide gross for the mlp movie exceeded 52 million. Making more than the first Alpha and Omega…An unremarkable cg film which spawn many, many shitty direct to dvd sequels.
Granted the foreign market saved also helped JL, more or less saving it from being a huge flop
@Background Pony #7B79
None of those are really marquis characters as far as general audiences go. The real misstep is in rushing to do their version of The Avengers without Marvel’s years of scene-setting patience. Iron Man and Thor were at best B-class properties themselves before Marvel introduced them to the larger movie going public.
Warner blew their load prematurely. Aquaman and Cyborg should have gotten solo outings before the main event.
@Background Human
This is what happens when you try to go ahead with a movie based on a group of superheroes teaming up to fight evil and miss key characters that make up the main cast like Martian Manhunter, Hawkgirl, Green Lantern, and Green Arrow among others.
Honestly I found the MLP movie to be just average honestly. It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t groundbreakingly good either, it was just a meh movie to me.
Studios don’t care about reviews or ratings. Studios care about one thing: cash money. And on that front, MLP has the League beat hooves-down. My Little Pony pulled $22 million domestic for the cost of a Toon Boom license. (Actually $5-8 million, according to Cartoon Brew) Justice League is near the end of its run and looking at about $227 million, on a budget of, uh… slightly more than that.
Tl;dr, a 99-minute toy commercial turned more of a profit than WB’s answer to The Avengers.
