Shoot for the moon Even if you miss, you will land among the stars AMBROSIA WORD FORMATION 09 JUSTICE LEAGUE FUELS THE WAR BETWEEN FANBOYS Just when you thought it was safe to return to the social networks , the ……………(go) war between Marvel and DC fanboys is about to ………….(ignite) Why? Because the critics don’t really like new DC Extended Universe instalment, Justice League, much more than they did the operatically dark and muddled Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, or the bombastically ………… (sense) Suicide Squad That’s now three out of four movies in this new superhero cinematic realm that have failed to pass muster, with only Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman standing tall Meanwhile, most Marvel offerings are greeted with delight by critics, Taika Watiti’s hugely entertaining but surely somewhat ……….……(rate) Thor: Ragnarok being just the latest example It means comment sections for the next few weeks will be full of angry DC acolytes, screaming at the injustice of it all “Everybody knows that the dice are loaded … everybody knows that the good guys lost”; the lyrics to Leonard Cohen’s Everybody Knows, ………… (duty) rolled out in Justice League for a(n) …………… (trade) Zack Snyder pop montage, suddenly seem to take on new meaning Henry Cavill as the Man of Steel is much, much better, perhaps partly because Justice League doesn’t cast him as the cause of all Dawn of Justice’s ills There are ……………(spine) moments when Superman returns to the fray, and Whedon even remembers to offset the CGI mega-battles (featuring Ciaran Hinds’ Steppenwolf) with a Richard Donner-esque segue in which Kal-El rescues some innocent …………….(stand) Cavill carries himself confidently and charismatically as the last son of Krypton, even if the digital work needed to remove a contractually required moustache for Mission Impossible is occasionally distracting Whatever we might think of the universe Superman is currently inhabiting, the world’s best known superhero ends the movie in a good place Fanpage: https://facebook.com/iloveambrosia Email: ambrosiaontop@gmail.com