![]() ![]() Zod was memorably played by Terence Stamp in “Superman II” (1980) with the late Christopher Reeve as Superman. ![]() Got that? I don’t believe it is news that the Flash asks Michael Keaton’s retired Batman to help him fight evil invader General Zod (Michael Shannon). Half of this dialogue is delivered by Miller playing both 30-something Barry and the 18-year-old, not-yet-meta-human counterpart who thinks Eric Stoltz starred in “Back to the Future.” The Flash teams up with his younger self to save the multiverse from coming apart because of his efforts to save his beloved mother (Maribel Verdu). Plus, the whip-smart banter between the characters is such a major part of Hodson’s script that it is like the film’s costar. The Buster Keaton-esque “It’s Raining Babies” sequence that follows is so much fun to watch, and so different from the knee-jerk, city-destroying motif of many earlier superhero films that it is exhilarating. It all begins when Jeremy Irons’ Alfred of the Ben Affleck “Batman” films calls Barry Allen aka the Flash, a criminologist on his way to work, and asks him to help people at a hospital that is collapsing. Directed by Andy Muschietti of “It” and its sequel fame and written by Brit Christina Hodson (“Birds of Prey”) and Joby Harold (“Obi-Wan Kenobi”), “The Flash” is so consistently funny it might qualify as a comedy, and its plot can get so complicated that you might not remember where you are or who the Batman is in the world you’re in. ![]() But when you are the star of a $200 million film from a major U.S. “The Flash” benefits greatly from the contribution of the controversial, problematic and also great actor Ezra Miller, who has had multiple run-ins with the law. Are “Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse” and “The Flash” the same movie? They will be to people tired of the whole “multiverse” gimmick that has contaminated Hollywood writing rooms. ![]()
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