personal tragedy meant the director had to step down and joss whedon stepped in.cided they had to make it less dark and more funny because wonder woman was doing well and the darker ones were not doing well. it is a total mess. this makes batman and robin look positively shakespearean. before the screening started, i read on the internet it was two hours and 15 minutes. someone said that is a mistake. it felt like four hours. it felt like a directors cut without beautiful scenery. it has too many characters and nothing for them to do. there is no reason to care about anybody because everybody appears indestructible — people who can do anything. it is a complete hodgepodge. they can fly or at least, as they said in toy story, the full with style. amazingly, for a film with so much stuff in it, it is stunningly dull. it is really, really turgid and boring. at no point does the film making lift itself. you want to be engaged and absorbed in the fantasy and i spent the whole time thinking "are we there?" it started, went on and then it stopped and i left. you have to