Ladies and gents I make it no secret to being a fan of the first Teen Titans Go movie and so you can bet I was looking forward to seeing what they would for the teams first straight to DVD movie. Unlike alot of you reading this review I never watched an episode of the 2003 Teen Titans TV show so that might be why I don't mind Go! as much but even so I was looking forward to see how the two teams would interact and well I now don't have to wait to see it because it's been released and here is my review of Teen Titans Go! vs. Teen Titans.
The plot of this movie is villains from both the 2003 world and the 2013 world team up to take on both versions of the Titans and both teams have to put aside their differences to put a stop to this dimension level threat. Yeah when I think of a crossover movie this is the kind of plot that I think of and i'll admit even tho everyone knew that both teams would eventually get along it was still fun seeing how they would get to that point and I was shockingly engaged throughout the whole thing which was something I never thought i'd say for a TTG product but that's how good the story was for me.
Starring in the film is Scott Menville as Robin , Tara Strong as Raven , Khary Payton as Cyborg , Hynden Walch as Starfire , Greg Cipes as Beast Boy , Kevin Michael Richardson as Trigon , Robert Morse as Santa Claus , Grey Griffin as Mrs. Claus , Rhys Darby as Master of Games and in a surprise bit of casting "Weird Al" Yankovic as Gentleman Ghost and Darkseid. It goes without saying that all of the main cast are returning from the show as is Robert Morse I just didn't bother to state it because it was pretty obvious.
As for what I thought about the acting from the main cast it was honestly really good but that's not really a surprise since they've been playing these characters since 2003. The whole cast really do a solid job in this movie I can't fault a single actor in this even Weird Al who's not in the film that much still gives a solid performance and out of all the actors he's the one you'd actually forgive the most for not turning in a solid performance just doe to the fact that he's been in better things but nope he's good in this.
Now I can't find the company who did the animation for this film at all so i'm just going to say that it was done by Warner Bros. Animation just for the sake of it. In all honesty I went into this movie knowing that the animation wasn't going to be as good as Go To The Movies but it's still really good considering that this is a straight to DVD movie you can tell that the animators really did care for this product and were determined to make it the best they could.
Visually this is where the film is a bit of a let down for me just because if you took one frame from the first movie and you knew that it was from a movie. In this film tho it looks exactly like the show I could take any picture from this film and i'd struggle to work out if it was from a film or not but at the same time I have to give them a little bit of wiggle room because this is a straight to DVD movie but you still need to tell that it's a movie and not just an episode of the show.
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Now there's a reason why i've thrown up a spoiler warning here and it's due to one scene that I wasn't expecting to happen. During the film the two teams learn that they have to use this device to cross dimensions and when they do one of the worlds that they visit is that of the New 52 DC Films and they meet the Titans from that world and adding to that is the fact that they got Sean Maher to reprise his role as Nightwing.
They don't just visit the world of the New 52 films tho they also go to the world of a possibly 60's inspired show which could be a reference to The Superman/Aquaman Hour of Adventure but i'm not exactly sure tho and they also visit the world of original comics which I honestly thought was really fun to see on screen and the fact that the comic Titans use word bubbles and the only way they can movie is if someone turns a page is funny as hell.
There's a scene in this movie which is straight up like the awesome scene in Avengers: Endgame and like in that film it's awesome in this one. To put it simple during the final battle with Trigon both Titans stop of at the various worlds and they recruit every single Teen Titans team and they all join in the final fight heck i'm honestly shocked that they somehow didn't work in the current live action Titans team.
The first joke of any comedy is always important because that joke will determine if the audience is with you or against you and sadly the opening joke in this film is bad all it is is just some pet food slowing leaving a can and that's it. Yes the opening joke from Go! To The Movies was bad since it was just a fart joke so you would have thought that the team would have learned their lesson and put in a better opening joke but they really didn't.
What I honestly wasn't expecting from this film and it's something that i'm glad happened it's that hey made Raven the main character of the film. It's like how they made Robin the main character of the previous film in that she's the character who goes through the actual change and grows as a character in this case it's learning to accept her demon half which is what the 2003 trigon is after so he can take over the multiverse. and that does lead to a cool as hell scene in the third act where 2013 Raven absorbs all the power from all the other Raven's to form a truly awesome form.
Like the previous film this one is a musical but unlike the previous film the songs in this film aren't that good and are honestly kind of forced. The songs in the previous film where catchy and were songs that you could sing along to here the songs just sound the same to me but I will admit to liking the nineties style rap that both teams perform early on in the film mostly because they take some shots at Teen Titans Go! and the fact they have a small budget which was honestly funny.
For some reason this show likes to put out bad trailers for there actually good movies like think about Go! To The Movies had a bad first trailer and so did this one. It's due to that trailer that I honestly thought that this film was going to be really bad and so I was presently surprised to see that it's not only good but it's also a very entertaining film and alot of that does come down to the jokes in the film.
The comedy in the film apart from the opening joke was actually pretty good with a fair few of the jokes landing with me. I'll admit that I found the previous film to be funnier but that doesn't mean that there aren't some jokes in this film like for example both Starfires find Sean's Nightwing to be more attractive then there own Robin and the fact that the 2013 Starfire frequently swoons over the 2003 Robin right infront of the 2013 version.
Now then since this is an action movie that means we do have to talk about the action seen in the film itself. The action in my opinion was honestly really fun we get to see both teams working together side by side which really does help in my opinion but sadly they don't take full advantage of that just because they stick to having the 2003 versions team up with however there 2013 counterpart is but the action is still really good and feels like it belongs in a movie.
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Overall this is a really fun movie and since we know that the previous movie is canon to the show we can there for assume that this one is as well. While the film isn't as good as the previous movie visually it is epic enough and the action is fun enough that you kind of forget about that and so it gets a 7 out of 10 from me.